Tucson’s new homeless survey asks who’s at most risk of dying

Tucson’s new homeless survey asks who’s at most risk of dying

Tucson’s homelessness outreach workers spent a decade using a national questionnaire to decide who gets housing resources. This summer they’re using a homegrown one instead that is centered around a new question: who is most likely to die outside?.  That shift to identifying people most at risk of losing their lives while living outside, and prioritizing them for scarce housing resources, is the latest example of the ways that local providers ar…