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From news on Arizona’s housing market to tips for making your bathroom feel bigger, here’s a quick recap of helpful links for Phoenix renters.
📉 Foreclosures have increased nationally over the last year, but they’ve actually decreased in Maricopa County. (Phoenix Business Journal, 🔒)
🏡 While the housing market is improving in some ways, first-time homebuyers are still feeling boxed out. (Arizona Mirror)
🥫 Thousands of Arizonans have been pushed off food stamps—and now Valley food banks are struggling to keep up. (Axios Phoenix)
🚨 Phoenix police and park rangers reportedly closed all the entrances to a park after closing time except one—boxing in unhoused people so police could run their names for warrants and cite them for trespassing. (Phoenix New Times)
🧑⚖️ The city of Phoenix sold land to an affordable housing developer at a discount. The Goldwater Institute sued, saying the city violated the state constitution’s gifts clause. (The Copper Courier)
👷 A new apartment complex with 301 units is being built near Glendale’s Westgate area. (The Copper Courier)
🧳 Now this is a storage hack I’ve never heard before: using vintage suitcases as decor while also hiding clutter. (Apartment Therapy)
