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Tucson and Pima County hold joint session to align homelessness, addiction and justice responses
Summary
City and county officials presented joint plans and funding for homelessness, opioid response and justice‑system reforms, including expanded transition‑center services, investments in MAT in the jail, gap‑funding for housing, data‑sharing proposals, and a proposed pilot to link justice‑involved people to shelter and on‑site treatment.
On Nov. 18 mayoral and county leaders convened a joint meeting to focus on unsheltered homelessness, affordable housing shortages and the public‑health crisis of opioid and fentanyl use.
Deputy County Administrator Steve Holmes described county investments in ‘‘gap funding’’ for affordable housing developers, a $10 million‑a‑year eviction‑prevention program, and rental‑assistance and wraparound programs (including a Craycroft location) intended to move people to stable housing. Holmes and other county staff outlined justice‑system initiatives: a…
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