The Homing Project

Our Mission

To provide immediate residence and onsite or referral services to those who are unhoused in order to bridge the current economic and social gaps separating them from safe and dignified living.

All over the city, more and more people are having to find hidden places to sleep, struggle to find food, deal with rather than treat their ailments, struggle to find shade in the summer and enough layers in the winter. Finding safety and dignity is nearly impossible.

We established The Homing Project to create a place where individuals can find the respite they need to establish the life they are entitled to: one where they know they will get what they need to live their life instead of living a life struggling to get what they need to live.

By providing all the basic necessities and securities in one location, we will be giving unhoused individuals a ladder to autonomy over their own lives.

We need your help! Sheltering and supporting the unhoused costs big money. We must pay for construction permits, grading, plumbing, electrical connections, the microshelters themselves, plus communal bathrooms, laundry, and a kitchen. Those are just the start up costs; after the village is built, we need 24-hour security, a project manager, a chef, and a social worker to provide support. 

Your donation is tax-deductible and goes directly into helping the unhoused right here in Tucson Arizona. We also have endless volunteer opportunities, contact us through website: www.thehomingproject.org to learn more.

We have been offered two Matching Grants totaling $8000 by two generous donors! That means your contribution will go twice as far! Please help us provide housing for the unhoused by contributing today. Many thanks.

Testimonials

"The Homing Project is pioneering a very exciting new concept to house the unsheltered and The Southern Arizona Land Trust is very excited to support this project." Gregg Sasse, Director, Southern Arizona Land Trust

"The Homing Project has ideas that nobody else in the country is doing, to wit: providing both freedom and responsibility to the newly-housed tenants while they are being reasonably but not forcibly supervised. It gives homeless people lockable doors, 24/7 professional security, regular access to social workers.  There is dignity here.  Although The Homing Project has created a community without a stringent code of rules, it will insist on tenants maintaining a certain set of normal neighborhood standards about how to treat others, about drug and alcohol use, about finding work. It is this combination of freedom and responsibility (absent in all other projects I know about) that makes sense to me and makes me a donor." Jeff Bruce, donor

“I know that Tucson has a lot of organizations that help homeless people. But other than Habitat for Humanity that helps build houses, I’m not sure that there’s anything like The Homing Project, that actually provide little homes for homeless people, and that’s one of the reasons that I was attracted to this organization and have donated to it. It seems to me that before we do anything, we need to provide homes to people who are homeless. That’s why I support this organization.” Mary Whitehead, donor

"Given the increasing number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in Tucson, this transitional housing project is desperately needed. Our current system of shelters and housing programs are outmatched by need in our community and this project with provide another much-needed avenue in support of people looking to transition back into stable housing." Keith G. Bentele, Associate Research Professor, Southwest Institute for Research on Women, University of Arizona