{"id":819452,"date":"2026-05-24T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/819452\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:17:00","slug":"west-valley-homeless-count-numbers-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/819452\/","title":{"rendered":"West Valley homeless count numbers drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">The Maricopa County Association of Governments on Monday released the results of the 2026 Point-in-Time Homelessness Count, which were nearly unchanged year over year across the region, though local communities saw larger shifts.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">\u201cFlat numbers in a growing region are themselves a meaningful sign,\u201d a MAG release stated. \u201cAs the Maricopa region\u2019s population continues to climb, holding the overall count steady and reducing the unsheltered population demonstrates important progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The changes from 2025 to 2026 showed the total regional PIT count was down less than 1%. The drop was far more pronounced locally with unsheltered homelessness decreasing in the West Valley by 36%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Maricopa County Association of Governments on Monday released the results of the 2026 Point-in-Time Homelessness Count, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":819453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,52912,1587,10439,46472,9619,182796,90075,1589,113188,67,586,132,5230,59791,68,2969,31680],"class_list":["post-819452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-avondale","tag-az","tag-buckeye","tag-goodyear","tag-homeless","tag-litchfield-park","tag-mag","tag-phoenix","tag-pit","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-unsheltered","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-west-valley"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116630928867795914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}