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Denver's Department of Housing Stability, held its first-panel discussion Friday for an opportunity to hear about the state of the homeless and housing crisis.
Aside from MDHI s programming, a nonprofit named Community Solutions, whose mission is to create a lasting end to homelessness that leaves no one behind, will present its Built for Zero movement, which involves over eighty cities and counties using a data-driven approach to end homelessness.
Through a 2020 Point in Time Count spearheaded by MDHI, surveyors identified 6,104 homeless individuals either staying in shelters or living in unsheltered settings in Denver, Jefferson, Douglas, Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield and Boulder counties. The numbers for both Denver 4,171 in 2020 and the metro area have been rising since 2017, even before the pandemic hit; service providers believe the number of people experiencing homelessness has increased since then. While MDHI didn t conduct a count of the unsheltered population in 2021 because of COVID-19 concerns, it will be tallying those in shelters.