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Tucson does not currently have a policy of clearing homeless encampments — instead, it allows those that don’t pose a risk to public health and safety to stay, supporting the people who live there and connecting them with services to get them into a permanent living situation. Conservatives aren’t happy, so on Arizona’s election ballot this month, there’ll be a proposition that will likely lead to more unhoused people being arrested and forced into treatment — despite resistance from police and prosecutors who say it simply won’t work. npub1lsf9ua78gndjftq3pyqj8wa7n76sru56tjczhvl975hryksrxypsvzz7mv (npub1lsf…z7mv) explains more.

https://boltsmag.org/arizona-prop-312-unhoused-ballot-measure/

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