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Apr 2023
29m 23s

The Sunday Read: ‘A Sandwich Shop, a Ten...

The New York Times
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Joe Faillace, 69, has been running the sandwich shop Old Station Subs alongside his wife, Debbie, for the last four decades. But as an epidemic of unsheltered homelessness began to overwhelm Phoenix, and many other major American downtowns, the Faillaces have been met with hundreds of people sleeping within a few blocks of Old Station. Many of them were suff ... Show More
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