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Douglas County has proven that homelessness is solvable through quality data, coordinated outreach, and regional collaboration. Together, Douglas County and the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative (MDHI) celebrate the County’s achievement of Functional Zero for Veteran homelessness, since joining the Built for Zero (BFZ) movement in April 2021.
Douglas County and the Tri-Cities of Sheridan, Littleton, and Englewood have reached Quality Data for Veterans! In total, the Denver Metro has 5 out of 9 sub-regions at Quality Data for Veterans, reaching our goal for 2023! This includes Adams County, the City of Aurora, Boulder County, Douglas County, and the Tri-Cities.
As of December 31, we have achieved a 16% reduction in veteran homelessness across the seven-county region! This brings us from 468 to 391 veterans actively experiencing homelessness, with a total of 415 veterans housed in 2023.
On October 18, Denver joined President Joe Biden's All INside initiative, a historic opportunity to address the crisis of unsheltered homelessness in Denver with support from key federal partners. With this partnership, an embedded, dedicated federal official will help identify and execute systems-level changes as well as expedite and strengthen our current local strategies.
“Our community has made a SHIFT in veteran homelessness, which means we have consistently seen a decrease in our overall number of literally homeless veterans in our Continuum of Care for the past 6 months,” shared Lauren Lapinski from the VA. “Thank you to all our community homeless providers for their incredible efforts to end veteran homelessness in our area, homelessness is solvable.”
Adams County and the City of Aurora have achieved Quality Data for veterans, a necessary milestone for reaching a functional end to Veteran homelessness (and eventually all homelessness). Quality Data means we can account for every veteran experiencing homelessness by name, in real time.
MDHI is pleased to share the Executive Director of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) will visit Metro-Denver November 21-22.
Learn more about our CoC Aims, how we’re advancing racial equity, historic funding opportunities, and the model that makes ending homelessness possible.
Boulder County is the first of Metro Denver’s nine sub-regions to achieve Quality Data. Learn more about this important milestone and what it means for ending homelessness in this community.
Boulder County is the first of the nine sub-regions to complete a Quality Scorecard for all single adults experiencing homelessness.
On April 5, 2022, leaders from across the state gathered to support the ‘Built for Zero’ framework for ending homelessness.
In March of 2021, MDHI in collaboration with Community Solutions, the VA, Department of Local Affairs, DRCOG, and the Metro Mayors Caucus convened hundreds of elected officials to discuss the issue of homelessness, suggesting the need for regional collaboration on the issue.