For Star subscribers: About six months after Tucson launched its encampment reporting tool, outreach is up. But most of the unsheltered population still has no where to go.
After Tiana Reks lost her apartment seven years ago, she lived in her car. After a car crash took away her home and transportation, Reks lived wherever she could lay her head at night.
Reks said she was “terrified” of being displaced from her camp, “until I found out about the whole tier thing and how we managed to get ourselves to be tier 2.” The tool has been key to achieving a better understanding of the transit patterns of the city’s homeless population and has allowed city workers to create a dashboard of data points for encampments and track subsequent outreach efforts. More than 15 city departments have a role in the encampment protocol.
“It's a fine line, because we work for the people of the city, and we work for the homeless and the unsheltered community. It's a fine balance between trying to make everybody happy and doing what's right,” he said. “I feel that being the first eyes on, it's better than enforcement being the first eyes on. At least now you have outreach where you're going there to make the first initial assessment with some kind of humility right off the bat.
'A traumatic scene'But while some areas are allowed to remain in place, about 200 “high-problem” encampments have been disbanded under the new system, according to city data. While the camp was ruled a tier 3 for violent crime and posing dangers to inhabitants and the community, Multi-Agency Resource Coordinator Amaris Vasquez said the encampment’s removal was triggered by a request from Union Pacific to clear out the area so they can start construction work on the fence neighboring the encampment. She said Union Pacific owns the land the encampment covered.
“People had been really, really busting their butts to try to make the camp clean under the impression that then they would not be forced to leave,” she said. Currently, Tucson has about 140 beds and 100 rooms across three hotels it’s purchased or temporarily leased to house the unsheltered. Unlike many of the area’s homeless shelters, there are no significant barriers to entry. People can go into the shelter with their partners and pets and aren’t required to detox from drugs.
The city’s housing first efforts through its low-barrier hotels have been relatively successful, according to Housing First Director Brandi Champion. Since the program began in October 2021, 678 people received shelter services and 275 were housed through the city’s non-congregate shelters as of May.
On the night of Jan. 23, volunteers counted 2,209 people residing in a shelter, transitional housing, or living without shelter in Pima County, and 77% of homeless people were unsheltered on the night of the 2023 count. Julsing acknowledged that this cycle is “a big issue,” but said, “We are not at functional zero, we don't have enough affordable housing for our entire unhoused population. So that's why when we go out, we make sure we bombard them with outreach. We may not get to you into housing this week, or this month, or even this year. But we have to get you on that list.”
Possible solutionsChampion and other experts like Dan Ranieri — the president and CEO of social services provider La Frontera with 30 years of experience working on housing issues — say other solutions are needed, such as tiny home villages and other congregate living alternatives to standard shelters.
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