![]() “While the world is no longer in a pandemic, we are beginning to feel the full economic fallout of the COVID-19 era,” Rife said in a statement. ![]() While the single-night numbers are alarming, Jamie Rife, MDHI’s executive director, stressed in a news release Monday that broader tracking of people interacting with the metro area’s homeless services provider network shows there are likely closer to 28,000 people who have experienced homelessness at least on a short-term basis, over the course of the entire year. It coordinates the annual point-in-time count and tracks other data around homelessness. ![]() MDHI is the metro area’s federally mandated continuum of care agency around homelessness. It’s a spike many service providers saw coming as the COVID-19 pandemic upended the economy and housing prices continued to surge in the Denver region. Since January 2020, the number of unhoused people in the metro area has spiked more than 48.5%, according to the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative, or MDHI. That total is a more than 31.6% increase over the point-in-time count of unhoused people performed in January 2022. On January 30, 9,065 people were counted as homeless in the Denver area, according to the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative. Homelessness in the Denver metro area got significantly worse between the winter of 20, according to a point-in-time count of people living in shelters or on the streets.
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