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The federally mandated Point in Time Survey counted 174 fewer people experiencing homelessness in Colorado Springs in January compared to the previous year.
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Virginia VA helps homeless program reach “Functional Zero”
VA assists local organizations to achieve major milestone
The partnership includes Crater Area Coalition on Homelessness, St. Joseph’s Villa and Built For Zero.
To be certified as a Functional Zero community, organizations and local governments have created and sustained a support system that ensures fewer Veterans are experiencing homelessness than can be housed in a month.
Ending homelessness is possible.
To be certified as a Functional Zero community, organizations and local governments in the Crater Region have created and sustained a support system that meets these goals.
Great strides
Colorado is experiencing an unprecedented and deepening housing crisis. With the cost of this basic need steadily climbing in what's already one of the
Government officials and nonprofit workers in Fremont County have been working with Community Solutions since October 2019 as part of the Built for Zero project, a framework created by Community Solutions to end homelessness across the country.
Cañon City is located about an hour southwest of Colorado Springs and is home to several prisons, including the Colorado State Penitentiary, which provide jobs for many of the area s residents. Loaves and Fishes Ministries runs the county s only emergency homeless shelter, in Canon City, which has seventeen beds and is typically full every night. We applied just because we knew that we wanted to end homelessness and we knew that what we were doing wasn’t making the greatest impact. We needed help. We needed technical assistance. That’s what drove us to apply for it, says DeeDee Clement, executive director of Loaves and Fishes, which has a twenty-person staff.