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  • Housing First won't solve the homeless crisis

    Mike Coffman, Guest columnist|Sep 4, 2024

    More than 650,000 Americans experienced homelessness on any given night in 2023 -- a 12% increase since 2022. Chronic homelessness is also worsening, with over 143,000 people homeless for at least a year in 2023 -- an all-time high. I’ve been the mayor of Aurora, Colo. for five years. In my first term, I went undercover and lived among people experiencing homelessness in Aurora and Denver for a week. I wanted to understand why Colorado’s homeless community was growing and how my city could best help. The leading policy approach to hom...