For Star subscribers: Tucson will soon launch an online portal to report encampments in attempts to get more people into shelter while addressing increasing concerns from the business community.
Nicole Ludden Tucson will begin a new way for community members to report homeless encampments in an effort to help the city clean them up, provide services to those living there, and when it involves a serious health or safety risk, require the occupants to leave.
Tier 3: Unsheltered occupants living at a site that poses a significant health and safety risk are required to relocate with a 72-hour notice. Staff will attempt to provide shelter for occupants and a cleanup crew will follow up once occupants leave the encampment. Businesses express concern In February 2022, the city’s housing department determined about 2,200 people are experiencing homelessness on a nightly basis in Tucson — 1,600 of which were unsheltered. That means for every sheltered homeless individual, about three people are residing in the city alleyways, in abandoned buildings or in other places not intended for human habitation.
City Manager Michael Ortega wrote in a memo to Tucson’s City Council that the issue of widespread encampments “is having a significant impact on local businesses and quality of life for community members.” “It’s a range of those general types of behavior that are occurring on business properties, it’s damaging business property,” he said. “ take care of our business community, and also help the community as a whole understand that the large umbrella of homelessness is not necessarily the problem. There is a subgroup within there that is causing those issues we’re talking about.”
Some encampments will be given a 72-hour notice to vacate the premises. Morales said the city doesn’t want to displace people, but the situation may arise when city officials force inhabitants to leave. But when it comes to the number of those experiencing homelessness and the availability of shelter space, a significant gap remains. Morales said the city’s “starting to see a lot of turnover” in getting those in shelters into permanent housing, however.
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