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Justa Center provides free meals to homeless seniors
July 8, 2024 by Fox News - The homeless crisis in Arizona is a well-known issue to most. One group that may not get much attention, though, is homeless seniors….
Leo Gailsparrow enjoys lunch at the Justa Center in Phoenix
May 2, 2024 by Cronkite News - Older adults face homelessness at high rates. Here’s how governments and organizations are responding
Center supporting unhoused people 55 and older
April 26, 2024 by KJZZ 91.5 FM - Summer isn't here yet, but one organization is already supporting unhoused people 55 and older
Lori discusses the Justa Center
January 14, 2024 by The Arizona Republic - When older adults experience homelessness, Justa Center is there to help.
A place for homeless seniors and second chances
December 27, 2023 by Jewish News - Justa Center, a place for homeless seniors and second chances, ‘on sounder footing’ despite growing homelessness crisis
The hottest July: Inside Phoenix's brutal 31 days of 110-degree heat
August 1, 2023 by Nicole Sganga of CBS News - Homelessness on steroids": Seniors without housing face acute hardship
Homeless and profoundly at risk
December 18, 2020 from AZCentral - A growing number of metro Phoenix's older residents are living out their final years without a home — and ultimately dying on the streets where they've been sleeping.
Elderly and Homeless: America’s Next Housing Crisis
September 30, 2020 from New York Times Magazine Over the next decade, the number of elderly homeless Americans is projected to triple — and that was before Covid-19 hit. In Phoenix, the crisis has already arrived.
Maricopa County is investigating 243 potentially heat-related deaths in 2020
August 25, 2020 from ABC 15 - Excessive heat is especially dangerous for the elderly and the unsheltered. Valley veteran Miles Oliver was overcome by heat in May. At the time he was living in his car and working as a pizza delivery driver.
The hidden homeless: Growing number of older people living on the streets
January 6, 2020 from Cronkite News - Viola Campbell’s voice shakes as she talks about the steep drop between the life she expected in retirement and her reality. “I’ve never been homeless before in my life. I’ve always had jobs,” Campbell said. Still, this is where she is at 75…
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Climbing from homelessness to give back
May 8, 2018 from Cronkite News - Rudy Soliz was happy, enjoying the life of many Americans, with a good job in construction, a family, a house and cars. “I was living the dream,” Soliz,58, said of the time before he landed where he is today. He works at Justa Center, which helps people 55 and older who are homeless get jobs, housing and such basics as food and showers.