PHOENIX – Brandy Baker watched the familiar tableau as homeless people like herself lined up outside the Phoenix Key Campus downtown.

A group huddled around a speaker as rap music blared. People walking down the sidewalk stepped over others using the cracked pavement as a bed.

Baker has been living on the corner outside the campus for two weeks. A pile of worn blankets and pillows creates shade for her service dog, Gemma, who jumps up to guard her from anyone who approaches.

Baker has been living on the streets for 14 months. It hasn’t been her first time without a home. She hopes this is the last.

She prefers to call herself “houseless” because to her, the term homeless has an association with being unclean. Baker tries to keep herself and the area around her as tidy as possible. Str

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