VETOED
- This bill would require the city to remove unhoused persons if an encampment is reported on private property. It would also charge them with criminal trespassing, and add drug charges if applicable.
- Unhoused residents would be given a 24 notice to collect their belongings and vacate. After 24 hrs, the ‘city’ (Law Enforcement Officers) is required to demolish the camp. Any remaining personal property will be held by the city for two weeks before it is also disposed of.
- This bill will unnecessarily send more people to Arizona jails, making it even more difficult for our unhoused neighbors to find jobs, housing, and get off the streets. End the homelessness-jail cycle!
- Wadsack says, “Tucson and Pima County are suffering from just an over abundance of homelessness.” This bill includes no solutions, services, or funding to provide for our unhoused neighbors, it simply tells them to leave. Do we just expect them to stop existing?
- The count of 13,553 experiencing houselessness in Arizona does not include people in their cars (thank you Comm On Wheels for teaching me that!).