Criminalization of Homelessness – Colorado

DU report finds Colorado cities spend millions arresting the homeless, By Tom McGhee and Katy Canada, February 16, 2016, Denver Post: “Denver spent more than $750,000 enforcing ordinances that target homelessness in 2014, a high price tag that has done little to alleviate a problem so apparent on city streets, a new report concludes…”
Report: Homelessness citations cost Colorado cities millions of dollars, By Nathaniel Minor, February 16, 2016, Colorado Public Radio: “The ‘criminalization’ of homelessness has cost six of Colorado’s largest cities at least $5 million from 2010-2014, according to new numbers from the University of Denver’s Homeless Advocacy Policy Project. The report says laws that criminalize panhandling, camping and other activities associated with being homeless are not the right approach to dealing with the issue…”