Tag: Housing First
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EDITORIAL: Aurora’s template for success on homelessness
With homelessness more or less unchanged over the past year in Colorado’s largest urban centers — numbers released this week show a slight dip in metro Denver and a small uptick in the Colorado Springs area — it’s worth another look at the innovative approach underway in Aurora. Colorado’s No. 3 city has been ramping…
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EDITORIAL: Dispelling illusions about homelessness
A Common Sense Institute report released last week affirms how soft-on-crime and easy-on-drugs policies make homelessness worse in wealthy, high-government-spending states like Colorado. To control for states with larger populations and thus higher homeless numbers, the report analyzed the number of homeless people per capita in each state. It turned out Colorado was top-10 across…
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How we exposed Denver’s homeless industrial complex | Vince Bzdek
In an era when information, misinformation, disinformation, AI-created information, and down-right lies all gets tossed together in the same Mixmaster known as the internet, we journalists believe it’s important for us to occasionally show our work. To let you know who our sources were, what documents we obtained, what our reporting method looked like, and…