TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A site designed to give homeless women a safe place to live away from the streets is coming together on Tucson’s Grant Road.

Behind the screened off fences along Grant Road there is a city approved site to temporarily house vulnerable homeless women. But the issue for people in the neighborhood is it is not a site they necessarily approved of.

In about a week, the area inside the fence will become Star Village, with tents where 25 women can live in safety, plus places to clean up and connect with social services— to transform life on the street into a stable, sober life with housing and healthcare.

It’s on land the city owns, in a commercial zone on Grant.

Some people who live nearby say the city chose the site and committed to the project without letting them kn

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