HELPING THE HOMELESS

Every January, the Tucson Pima Collaboration to End Homelessness counts how many people experiencing homelessness live in our community. Called "Point-in-Time Counts," these reports reflect the number of sheltered and unsheltered people in the area at that given moment. Those numbers fluctuate throughout the year.  
This January, the count identified a total of 1,380 people. Of those, about 450 were women. 
For Duarte, homelessness looked like years of sleeping on friends' couches, bouncing between shelters and eventually making camp with eight other women in the plaza outside the downtown library. But now she has a fresh start. A place to call home.