When city staff fanned out to count unhoused people on a single night in January, they found fewer people sleeping on the streets and in shelters.
A total of 518 people were counted on the streets, while about 5,900 were in shelters around the city. It was the lowest count of unsheltered homelessness in Denver since 2017.
Sheltered homelessness, which has risen mightily over the past decade, finally started dropping, too, as more people were housed.
But the annual Point-in-Time Count also found more evidence for a troubling trend: the number of unhoused people under 18 has hit a 10-year high. Family homelessness has climbed, too.
