Media and Reports

Colorado's Affordable Housing Crisis: It's Time for Strategic Investments This report investigates decades of state and federal policies on affordable housing, digs into the special populations most impacted by historic disinvestment, and, in its final pages, offers up clear, specific policy solutions for elected officials who want to implement policies to meaningfully address the housing crisis in Colorado. A three page summary version of the report is located here. 

Criminalization and Homelessness Fact Sheet (2023) Debates among Denver's prospective leaders have offered possible solutions to homelessness, and criminalization and enforcement plans continue to come up. The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, with nearly 40 years of experience in the sector, can provide the necessary context to counter false narratives that criminalization and camping ban enforcement are constructive responses to homelessness. 

Changes to Public Health Benefits (2023) As the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency draws to a close, the end of critical benefits will cause a precarious environment for people with low incomes and place the most vulnerable groups at greater risk of health issues, food insecurity, and homelessness. Learn more. 

State of Homelessness 2022 (Published 2023) This report documents the state of Homelessness in Colorado in 2022. An exact count is difficult to determine, but by assessing the tools at hand and viewing comparisons across years, we are able to see a snapshot of current levels of homelessness on one night in 2022. 

Issue Brief 2022 - Disability and Homelessness. To prevent and end homelessness among people with disabilities, we must recognize the unique challenges this community faces, and actively work to expand access to affordable, adequate housing.

Issue Brief 2022 - Women and Homelessness
For the 3,069 known women currently experiencing homelessness in Colorado, housing is just the beginning of a long list of unmet needs.

Issue Brief 2022 - Climate Change and Homelessness
People experiencing homelessness and those who are unstably housed are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

2021 Fort Lyon Annual Report
Fort Lyon Supportive Residential Community (FLSRC) in Las Animas provides transitional housing and recovery support services for people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness from across Colorado with a priority of serving veterans.

Facing Eviction Alone
This study reviewed Denver County eviction cases from 2014 to 2016 and examined cases initiated by Denver Housing Authority, as well as several major private housing property managers in the region. 

Housing First Works
Housing First is a programmatic approach
designed to help chronically homeless families and individuals move more quickly off the streets out of out of the shelter system.

Issue Brief 2021 - LGBTQ+ and Homelessness
The last two years resulted in a nationwide deterioration of LGBTQ+ protections, increasing legalized discrimination in employment, housing, shelter, policing, healthcare access, and beyond.

Issue Brief 2020 - Race and Homelessness
The disproportionate numbers of BIPOC experiencing homelessness can be directly tied to a history of racially motivated housing and other policies that continue to this day.

Issue Brief 2019 - Health and Homelessness
Poor health and homelessness are more often than not, shared experiences.

We Will Remember:
Homeless Death Review
2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016