Media and Reports

Legislative Report 2025 This annual report covers the work of the CCH Advocacy team in the 2025 session, as well as next steps and actions for the coming year under the Gold Dome.

Housing with Supportive Services: An Evidence-Based Solution Support-Centered Housing builds on the longstanding success of Housing First principles and is an evidence-based approach to homelessness resolution that prioritizes getting people into stable housing as a first step — but not the only step — toward stability. 

Issue Brief 2025: Older Adults and Homelessness This issue brief focuses on the unique challenges of homelessness amongst older adults and proven solutions to address this problem amongst the fastest growing age group of people experiencing homelessness. 

Transportation Issues & Homelessness Issue Brief  This issue brief discusses several issues that highlight the intersection of housing stability and transportation policies including transportation costs and access, transit-oriented development, and transit safety.

Legislative Report 2024 This annual report covers the work of the CCH Advocacy team in the 2024 session, as well as next steps and actions for the coming year under the Gold Dome.

Renters' Protections Brief 2024 This report covers measures enacted since 2017 related to tenant rights issues, many of which the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless was a leader on, and others that we were actively involved in advocating for. 

State of Homelessness 2023 (Published 2024) This report documents the state of Homelessness in Colorado in 2023. 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.

Fort Lyon 10-Year Report - 2013 - 2023
Since 2013, the Fort Lyon Supportive Residential Community has provided recovery-oriented transitional housing on an expansive campus in Bent County, Colorado. Learn more. 

Issue Brief 2023 - Health and Homelessness
Poor health and homelessness are more often than not, shared experiences. Learn about the challenges, and solutions that work.

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

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. 

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.

We Will Remember:
Homeless Death Review 2024, 2023, 2022, 
2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016

Why is Homelessness Increasing 
in Colorado

A Brief History of Affordable Housing
Funding in the U.S.

Righting the Wrongs of the Past
Race and Housing

Housing Stability and Health:
The Forgotten Link

Homelessness and Health in the
Time of COVID

Maria's Story:
How Illness Led to Homelessness