Eagle County is still putting millions into workforce housing, and not just new projects. Spending on several of the county’s Bold Housing Moves programs will account this year for about $4.6 million. A recent report.
For a long time, help for a homeless individual in Eagle County consisted of a bus ticket to somewhere else. That’s changing. The Eagle County Board of Commissioners on Monday heard a report about homeless.
Government service providers and community groups in Pitkin, Eagle, and Garfield counties are coordinating efforts for the first time to better understand how many people are unhoused or experiencing homelessness in the area on a single night. Organizers are looking for volunteers to join the “Unsheltered Point in Time Count” on the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 25.
Homelessness has long been an underdefined and underserved issue in Eagle County, but that is beginning to change. Up until this year, the county’s ability to identify and support the local homeless population has been.