The tents and campfires were gone.
The sidewalks where people had built makeshift shelters from wood pallets and blue tarps were empty.
On Friday, all that was left of “the Zone,” a sprawling homeless camp in downtown Phoenix, were discarded clothes, trash and questions about what comes next.
Housing advocates say the operation appears to have removed — at least temporarily — a notorious symbol of the homelessness crisis in American cities.
“Overnight, they’re all gone.” He said he often woke to flashing lights of police cars and ambulances responding to fights, shootings, fires and overdoses outside his bedroom window.
Persons:
”, Joel Coplin
Organizations:
Housing
Locations:
Phoenix, Arizona