A common trope about those living on the streets of Denver and elsewhere throughout the metro region is that they’ve come to the Centennial State in pursuit of legalized cannabis and then become homeless. But a new report shows that’s actually not the case.
“By and large, people in our community, in our state, are the ones that are experiencing homelessness,” says Jamie Rife, the executive director of the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative.
MDHI released its annual State of Homelessness report on January 26. A key finding is that 87 percent of individuals who shared previous address information with homelessness services providers in Denver metro indicated that their last permanent address was in Colorado.
In total, 4,384 people accessing services from July 2021 through June 2022 shared their permanent address with providers, who then plugged this information into the Colorado Homeless…
