A government report shows more than half a million Americans were homeless in January, nearly 11,000 were counted in Colorado.
The Biden administration blamed homeless increases since 2020 on COVID economic impacts, as opposed to any of the economic impacts from failing Democrat policies.
Then claims there wasn’t really much of an increase, anyway.
One has to read carefully between the lines of HUD’s 2022 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to see the real picture.
Compared with 2020, homelessness among people in shelters declined by 1.6%, while homelessness among people in unsheltered settings increased by 3.4%.
Meanwhile in Colorado:
An annual federal report counted 10,397 homeless in Colorado in early 2022, an increase of 551 individuals compared to two years ago. When compared to last year, the picture is much worse. The state added nearly 2,000 homeless people since 2021.
And that increase comes in spite of Gov. Polis’s executive order banning evictions of anyone not paying rent, while the federal government doled out emergency rental assistance to pay the rent.
Additionally, $2 billion is being spent on the Denver metro area homeless during this three-year period, Colorado Politics reports.
Numerous breakout charts in the federal homeless report show were states rank by different milestones of homelessness.
However, the footnotes reveal Colorado was excluded from the charts “due to methodological changes” that were not explained.
We’re just eyeballing it, but it looks like Colorado made the top 15.
