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Homelessness is a growing problem in Western cities. Some communities are setting up their own encampments.
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With the spread of the delta variant prolonging the end of the pandemic, the city of Boulder recently re-opened a center that provides people experiencing homelessness a place to recover from COVID-19.
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In 2016, Denver launched a pilot supportive housing program for people experiencing homelessness. The program was created to explore a simple question: what happens if you give people experiencing chronic homelessness a permanent place to live, and intensive social services?
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In Colorado Springs, The Place is a shelter for young people experiencing homelessness. The pandemic has only increased the number of individuals who are unhoused, but in the early days of lockdowns, The Place’s outreach team had trouble finding youth.
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'A Roof Over Your Head': Residents Put Down Roots In Fort Collins' Newest Supportive Housing ProjectHousing insecurity and homelessness were growing issues even before the pandemic, due to Colorado’s population and high cost of living. A supportive housing project in Fort Collins is changing what it looks like to get people housed.
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In 2019, Colorado launched a new program to keep people with unmet mental health needs out of the criminal justice system. But, over the summer, pandemic-related budget cuts gutted these mental health diversion programs.
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Organizers of the Point-In-Time count of people experiencing homelessness in Denver, Boulder and the seven-county metro region have called off the 2021 count for unsheltered people. A count of the sheltered population only will take place on Feb. 25.
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Last August, KUNC aired a story about SafeLot, a new program in Longmont that provides safe parking for people who live in their cars. Now that program is expanding. Colorado Edition co-host Henry Zimmerman spoke to KUNC’s Stephanie Daniel, who reported the original story, to learn more about the expansion.
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A new report finds that pandemic-related job loss will cause twice as much chronic homelessness than the 2008 Great Recession, with Latinos and African Americans especially vulnerable.
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There were eight days left in the month, and enough of Bruce Brooks’ Social Security check to cover renting a hotel room in Greeley for exactly none of them.