Homeless Phoenix Residents Await City’s Action Displacing Them From ’the Zone’

Ruling comes down after judge brands tent city a 'public nuisance'

A homeless person in the tent city of downtown Phoenix, known as 'the Zone," walks among piles of debris on April 3, 2023. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

PHOENIX—Shelby Ord has big plans for himself at 18.

First, he plans to get his high school equivalency diploma, a good job, an apartment, and “maybe a cat, of course.” Then go to college and major in chemistry or teaching.