… They (residents) see people walking with bed rolls and stuff like that, and they’re not too keen on it because they think they’re going to come in here and sleep all over the place,” Lockhart says. “They’re people. They’re human beings. We may not have an extravagant house like they do, but our home is Arizona.”
After five months of the operation at CrossRoads, neighbors started sharing stories about encounters with homeless people. Men were hanging out at the church on other days of the week, spooking parents and workers at a preschool that uses the church, according to letters filed with the city.
The complaints grew in severity. Neighbors shared stories of aggressive panhandling, people using the sidewalk as a bathroom and one homeless man stabbing another with an ice pick.
One woman said she witnessed a female leaving the breakfast to solicit prostitution. A neighborhood man who found a homeless man’s possessions in the alley behind his house set them on fire.

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