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Abstract
This is a case study of the Human Services Campus (HSC) in Phoenix, Arizona. The HSC spatially integrates social services with case management. I show a series of political and geographic tactics that attempt to spatially know and manage people experiencing housing precarity through the concept of co-location. Co-located facilities reflect social services intersecting the urban landscape and have social and spatial consequences for communities of people who are struggling for housing. I describe the creation of the HSC in Phoenix and demonstrate that the HSC is an institution that espouses self-sufficiency tutelage through disciplinary tactics. The HSC spatially regulates the precariously housed to contribute to the general sense of order in Phoenix, built, as it is, around property development in the downtown corridor.