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PROMISE OF A NEW DAY BY TOM EVANS Family Promise of Greater Phoenix Thinks They Can Disrupt Affordable Housing Many people think that people who are experiencing homelessness are always experiencing homelessness, or close to it. But nothing could be further from the truth, especially when the economic factors of the past few years come into play. While rising property values are great for home and property owners, that upward pressure has raised rental housing rates — dramatically. And the Phoenix metro area has seen some of the sharpest increases in the country. The result is a slow-moving disaster unfolding for a family that may have never struggled to pay for housing before. A family that may have been spending $1,000 per month on rent three years ago may be spending more like $1,600 now. And they probably didn’t start out making a ton of money, and probably didn’t have a commensurate increase in salary. Nowadays, a significant part of the increase in homelessness is affecting people it never affected before — NEXT DOORS FRONTDOORS MAGAZINE | 59 Ted Taylor, the CEO of Family Promise of Greater Phoenix, says the nonprofit focuses specifically on serving families experiencing homelessness.