Homelessness in Loveland
Share Your Voice and Contribute to Solutions as Loveland Addresses Homelessness Within Our Community.
Mirroring trends at the national and regional levels, the number of individuals experiencing homelessness is rising in Loveland.
Like many Front Range communities, Loveland is working to navigate solutions through a Continuum of Care model. The City and partners provide shelter, supportive housing and affordable housing to community members in need. While this page is specifically focused on homelessness in Loveland, you can also learn more about the City’s approach to Affordable Housing .
We recognize that community members have concerns about the lack of systems in place that lead to growing encampments, garbage and perceived safety for community members, as well as those experiencing homelessness. Balancing the desire of residents with the needs of people living outside can be difficult and requires extensive policy and programmatic discussions. That is where the City’s Homelessness Strategic Planning efforts come in to play.
Missed the Town Hall?
Watch a short presentation about best practices that are being explored to build a healthy community by reducing homelessness, as well as actions taken in Northern Colorado to build systems to get people into housing.
Afterwards, participate in the "Share your experiences tab" below by June 10th to answer the same questions from the town hall. Your responses will be shared in a recap for City staff and City Council.
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A Snapshot of Homelessness in Loveland
Share A Snapshot of Homelessness in Loveland on Facebook Share A Snapshot of Homelessness in Loveland on Twitter Share A Snapshot of Homelessness in Loveland on Linkedin Email A Snapshot of Homelessness in Loveland linkPoint-in-Time (PIT) Counts
PIT Counts provide a "snapshot" of the number of people experiencing homelessness on a specific date (usually one day, but occasionally up to a week in January) in a community. Unsheltered refers to residents sleeping outside. Sheltered refers to residents living in motels, rotational shelters, domestic violence safe houses or family programs.
In Loveland, the number of people unsheltered grew from 84 in 2017, to 91 in 2019 and finally to 116 in 2022; the number of people sheltered grew from 49 in 2017, to 51 in 2019 and finally to 53 in 2022; and the total number of people experiencing homelessness grew from 113 in 2017, to 142 in 2019 and finally to 169 in 2022.Veteran Homelessness
Veteran homelessness for Larimer County is expected to reach functional zero by 2022.
Loveland Homeless Systems Advisory Board
A Loveland Homeless Systems Advisory Board was established in January 2022. The following organizations are involved:
- Alternatives to Violence
- Aspire 3-D
- Catholic Charities
- Community Kitchen
- Community Partnership Office
- Disabled Resource Services
- House of Neighborly Service/137 Connection
- Homeward Alliance
- Loveland Housing Authority
- Loveland Police Department
- Loveland Public Library
- Neighbor to Neighbor
- Northern Colorado Continuum of Care
- Salvation Army
- Servant’s Heart
- SummitStone Health Partners
- Sunrise Community Health
- Thompson School District
- Thomson Education Foundation
- Together Colorado
Videos
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In November 2019, nine leaders from Fremont, Colorado, attended their first Built for Zero Learning Session, where they met 75 communities working to end homelessness.
The team included their city council member — who would eventually become their mayor — and several other local leaders. The challenges they faced were clear. They operated in a rural, low-resource environment. They did not have a robust outreach strategy, They did not have someone to conduct housing navigation.
None of that mattered. Just a few weeks later, they hosted a town hall where they announced they were going to end veteran homelessness.
Fremont County, Colorado, has now reached functional zero for veteran homelessness. By reaching this milestone, they have created a reality where fewer veterans are experiencing homelessness than can be routinely housed — ensuring veteran homelessness is rare and brief.
Learn more at HomelessnessIsSolvable.org
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500,000 Americans experience homelessness every night. Lead Me Home is a documentary short by Jon Shenk and Pedro Kos that captures the experience from multiple perspectives. This immersive, cinematic film personalizes the overwhelming issue by telling the real-life stories of those going through it as a first step toward challenging uninformed attitudes and outmoded policies and gives the audience a rare, in-depth look at the scale, scope and diversity of unsheltered America today.
Who's Listening
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Phone 970-962-2302 Email nicole.yost@cityofloveland.org -
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