Victim: Sober living homes 'recycling' people at luxury condos
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ย. 2024
- Across the Phoenix area, Native Americans and other vulnerable people battling addiction are being targeted in a sober living scheme, which is now being addressed by the state.
We're uncovering more about what’s happening at Canal on Baseline surrounding sober living facilities at the brand-new property of luxury condos.
Residents who live in the area of Canal on Baseline not only want answers, but solutions.
The city of Mesa says it's investigating alleged sober living home activity, and now, we've confirmed there’s a multi-agency investigation.
The property owner of Canal on Baseline admits that two unlicensed sober living facilities operated under his watch.
From a bird’s eye view, there’s a uniform look of white rooftops capping 90 contemporary-styled townhomes.
The property sits within a gated community at 6060 East Baseline Road in Mesa.
On June 6 of this year, residents from Canal on Baseline and neighbors near the community joined a packed town hall.
Residents in the area looked to city officials from Mesa and Gilbert, asking about the alleged sober living home activity spilling from the complex into their neighborhoods.
"The operations that are going on in these high-end luxury condos are not licensed but yet they say their hands are tied, they can’t do anything. And it’s a protected class that is being abused and brought in," a neighbor in the area said after the meeting.
"We do need to see action from the state level. The cities can only do so much," another neighbor said.
Mesa councilwoman Julie Spilsbury says Mesa has met with Arizona’s Attorney General Kris Mayes, contacted Governor Katie Hobbs and Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), the state’s Medicaid agency and a key player in the issue.
"This is super complicated. There’s lots and lots of layers to this. There’s legal protections for sober living, there’s just so many layers and so it’s not a matter of just walking in tomorrow and shutting it down," she said.
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The city will blame the state, the state will blame the federal government and the issue will never get solved
yup conservatives white men never accept responsibility for their crimes
Betcha the corrupt politicians are involved with the fake rehab centers, because there's a few who stole millions from Medicare when they were governor, state representatives, and they have become Senators. These welfare fraud schemes are happening at the local levels of government by politiciansas well.. They haven't been arrested and charged with their crimes yet. It's a massive system failure and a travesty of justice and a two-tiered justice system.
Big businesses are not above the law. They need to be held accountable. Poor victims.
I just want to say some thing regarding this issue. Native Americans are not the only ones that are being taken advantage of my daughter went into a sober living after rehab and they without her consent, changed her insurance to get paid. They then started bringing in homeless people that had head lice and would not address the issue. She moved to another one that kicked her out for stupid reasons, and now she is struggling with her addiction again sober living is important but unfortunately it’s abuse like everything else that people put their hands on greed and lawlessness produces this kind of activity.
Talk to her about psychedelic medicine. A community of fellow addicts is the worst environment to get clean, I've been there. Haven't touched a needle in 6 years
It's kleptocracy at every level of the government.
Betcha the corrupt politicians are involved with the fake rehab centers, and housing because there's a few who stole millions from Medicare when they were governor, state representatives, and they have become Senators. These welfare fraud schemes are happening at the local levels of government by politiciansas well.. They haven't been arrested and charged with their crimes yet. It's a massive system failure and a travesty of justice and a two-tiered justice system.
@@CHRISTisKing197 what is that kind of medicine?
Terrible they prey on people. This is wickedness.
"High end condos" bruh they're building them everywhere in the most ghetto places.
I just left a sober living facility that was licensed and to share a dirty room with 6 people cost us 1000-1200 a month. Even the accredited places are exploiting people in a vulnerable situation and the house managers are only paid in housing or at a hugely discounted rate for what is essentially a 24 hr BHT job.
Betcha the corrupt politicians are involved with the fake rehab centers, because there's a few who stole millions from Medicare when they were governor, state representatives, and they have become Senators. These welfare fraud schemes are happening at the local levels of government by politiciansas well.. They haven't been arrested and charged with their crimes yet. It's a massive system failure and a travesty of justice and a two-tiered justice system.
If the room is dirty then clean it! Stop complaining. Do something and get a comfortable place for yourself!
@@7DWSGROUP “do something and get a comfortable place for yourself!”
Uh, excuse me, you m0ron - the comment you’re replying to CLEARLY STATES she WAS at a sober living facility, and then was able to leave!
Did you know: that means she DID “do something,” and found a more comfortable place to live.
Hope this helps you to understand, and to stop being a “C u next Tues” 😚🤡
Whats a BHT job?
Being a native american myself, I blame our tribal government because why can’t they build actual, real sober living facilities on our reservations with all the money given to our tribes. Hire qualified people that have experience dealing with trauma, addiction, etc. Its sad its come to this.
Drinking alcohol is a choice. The weak will always find an excuse to justify their behavior.
@@kingghost7116 true true! As i have 2 functioning alcoholics in my family who show no signs of stopping lmao
@@blehlee6745 I pray things get better for you 🙏🏼
It's massive kleptocracy at every level of the government. Betcha the corrupt politicians are involved with the fake rehab centers, because there's a few who stole millions from Medicare when they were governor, state representatives, and they have become Senators. These welfare fraud schemes are happening at the local levels of government by politiciansas well.. They haven't been arrested and charged with their crimes yet. It's a massive system failure and a travesty of justice and a two-tiered justice system.
@@kingghost7116Betcha the corrupt politicians are involved with the fake rehab centers, because there's a few who stole millions from Medicare when they were governor, state representatives, and they have become Senators. These welfare fraud schemes are happening at the local levels of government by politiciansas well.. They haven't been arrested and charged with their crimes yet. It's a massive system failure and a travesty of justice and a two-tiered justice system.
This is Angering! People should not blame the victims! Hold the government and human traffickers account!!😡 Medicaid needs to be held accountable for not putting policy in place to protect the People and tax payer money!
az government is all fascist white people but they cause most problems in the world and always blame everyone else
Betcha the corrupt politicians are involved with the fake rehab centers, because there's a few who stole millions from Medicare when they were governor, state representatives, and they have become Senators. These welfare fraud schemes are happening at the local levels of government by politiciansas well.. They haven't been arrested and charged with their crimes yet. It's a massive system failure and a travesty of justice and a two-tiered justice system.
Medicaid is not responsible. The HUD and the Housing Coorporations are responsible. Housing should be made available to everyone who can afford his monthly rent. Those who are in the rental business must be more flexible.
My father and his 6th wife own a condo in Flagstaff. I am deeply concerned, that they might be a art of the problem. What can I do? What do you do, when you discover your parents are evil?
turn them in
Government is in on it, making money, and spreading different voters where they want them.
if by government you mean fascist white people than yes
One guy went in and bought them all? FOLLOW THE MONEY.
there is also this same problem in south florida
This is why i would shut down every third party scams and phone scams from blue sky and maxwest telecoms
I live in Phoenician Pines and these guys bought ours and we have the same issues
Maybe I'll fwd this to a certain Nigerian Dr.?
I get so tired of the Cities saying "It's very complicated, multilayered". I call B.S. DO YOUR JOBS!
LMMFAO
Sacramento California does this scam as well.
These are everywhere.
Health department try’s to discipline consumers yet refuse to fix as small as typo.
Keep investigating these fraudsters. They need to be exposed.
Useing their foodstamp cards as well for trade.
Scam Scam Scam, Shame Shame Shame!
I really hope this doesn’t make it hard for native Americans to get the help they need they are dying in our streets come to 51st and baseline they are struggling hard with drug addiction
Hello, I’m Native American from Gila River and it’s sad to know that these so called sober living places enabled the natives to drink themselves to death and use them for their AHCCCS health insurance and collect money for their own self gain..and I know most tribes can’t go walk into their housing assistance buildings and get immediate help with a place to live, most of the time they get put on a waiting list and won’t get a call for some years so they end up
being homeless and living on the streets and are desperate and take a chance when someone offers them help, but I wish our tribal leaders would get together and maybe build hotels or something like it and have their own tribal members stay close to home or maybe build one in the city and so that Natives can get away from the same environment where they would use & drink, I know some natives can’t turn to families for help cause they have no family, or don’t get along, and it’s already hard as it is with prices going up, and some tribes have to travel from up North to Phoenix to find work, and so that is another reason some don’t choose to go back home, it’s a lot of pain & suffering from the families that have lost their family members from the sober living places that let them drink themselves to death or Overdose on Fetynal of Meth and pass away, Native lives Matter, and some are vulnerable so these Africans that open these places don’t care, and mistreat the Natives like they yell at them, lock them inside, don’t feed them or help them with hygiene,..I’ve had to help a few people get into licensed sober homes that are really out there helping the Natives get sober and get healthy and mentally strong and help them get into school and jobs and a place of their own, so some good sober homes do exist, but most of them aren’t licensed and are committing fraud and hurting them native people by poisoning their food..it’s like history is repeating itself by mistreating the Native Americans..I hope it stops..
Unfortunately this will make it harder for indigenous people to get real AODA services
Either that or some people end up homeless
They have some not so nice one and adult protective services refused to address these things 10 years ago. Nobody at the colleges or health department they do it to young people coming off foster care. Take all their benefits & ID kick them out as John Humphrey & Flaget it know they do not help anyone, but will fund the abuse.
I do not qualify for state health insurance but some “case managers” that cannot keep up with anaphylaxis in ER or totaled car in hit in run,
AZ health department in layered in incompetence with child like hang up laryngitis causes frustrated tantrum and refusal. Their employees go home and continue the abuse in the community.
Nobody’s obeying the law “we don’t do that here” to accommodations.
'protected class'....which one is that now, there's so many...
All allowed under Doug Ducey s Administration.
You got to be careful with sober living situations.
Phone was shut down next day no service no internet but i could make calls
I wonder i went to a couple people and hotels especially windemere and downtown mesa sober living rehabilitation facility drugs infestations payed by government and family iwned businesses 🤔 so i asked an i use my achess card dont qualify horizon the same way so how does the place use achess to pay for the homeless hotels paid by achess
Aren’t rich doing the same thing? Let the poor have their experiences too. ❤
Samir Sawhney is in on it. What a racket. Screw winning the lottery, Im just going to open a "Sober living house". Its actually going to be a sober living mansion.
WOW I SEE THIS IS MESA SO GLAD I SOLD MY HOME LORD MESA BECOMEING LIKE PHOENIX
Let these people get sober
Scam goes all the way too the top, management, developer's,realiters.....ect..
None of this story makes sense. I don't get it.
It sounds like these people are being lured and lied to… some more forcibly then others. Then they are offered rehab but I guess they are taken to these communities and don’t get the help they need… possibly scammed out of all their money so they cannot go home but they accept the ‘help’ which is essentially them being stuck there and unable to leave because they don’t have money and are now hooked on hard drugs
This looks like nothing more then a means of control: they take everything so they have to rely on these fake camps, and these ‘sober facilities’ or camps pacify them with their favorite drug and or food
It doesn’t make much sense to me but maybe there’s something more going on here.
Those places will turn into dumps
Look up level up in Florida sus
follow the money
Bro parties all day!
This what happens when you vote democrat it’s all about money,
Yep
Oh, please, Jeremy. What do you or any of your friends suggest? We are dealing with the same thing in northern Arizona. Addiction and homelessness don't care what political party is in office.
@@jakemoeller7850 rehab and labor comps and stop babying these people
Luxury apartments lol lol lol lol
This is how democrats gerrrymander a district !
Allah u Akbar
I love Acapulco and Queretaro.
God bless everyone and RIP all
Hahaahahhaaha lol what?
Funny. All these comments are misleading. The people living in these houses called sober living are not forced to live there. Sober living homes do not have the capability to bill the states or AHCCCS. Based on my experience nobody can stop these guys to sneak in alcohol or drugs in these houses. I have four houses still open. Police or whosoever come there all the time. I know i am not doing anything wrong helpong people off the streets, get a job and go back to school. All these is racial biases. I understand some of the houses are evil. As some said earlier, Native Americans can start opening sober living homess, BHRF, and Group homes in their respective communities or reservation. I am tired of all the lies and false allegations. Mo drug addicts or alcoholic will ever tell the investigators the truth. Pls stop comdemning and start an unbiased investigation to solve the problem.
I can agree on some sober living businesses trying not help people, you take people off the street and help them and they treat you like trash but not all sober living homes are bad. The clients have to understand this is voluntary and they also need accountable ....and they blame once something doesn't go there way
Basically it's a shelter for homeless people,awsome they need to make more, but feed fenytle to these people so they die faster, there's people with family that can actually use those homes,instead of putting druggys and alcoholics
Soooooooo what. Let them live