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Council adopts 2025–2026 Tri Cities Homelessness Plan of Action
Summary
The Littleton City Council approved Resolution 02 2025 to adopt a two-year Tri Cities homelessness action plan covering Littleton, Englewood and Bridal, including performance metrics and commitments to regional services and facilities.
The Littleton City Council voted unanimously to adopt the 2025–2026 Tri Cities Homelessness Plan of Action, a regional strategy developed with Englewood, Bridal and Arapahoe County to coordinate services for people experiencing homelessness.
Deputy City Manager Mike Ghent, staff liaison to the Tri Cities steering committee, told the council the plan builds on work started in 2021 and on federal and local funding sources. “During the last 2 years, we were able to document 57 individuals moving from homelessness into housing,” Ghent said, framing that as a baseline for the next two-year plan.
The action plan sets three theme areas: creating a sustainable governance and funding model; expanding services for single adults (including feasibility work for permanent supportive housing and landlord outreach); and strengthening prevention and services for families (including voucher expansion and school-district partnerships). Ghent described two near-term facilities included in the plan: a 50-bed “ready to work” program modeled on a Boulder program and a 20-bed homelessness navigation center; staff expect ribbon-cutting invitations in early April.
Council member Grove asked about funding timelines tied to ARPA and other sources; Ghent clarified that some ARPA funds must be expended by the end of 2025 and that the city expects part of Littleton’s ongoing share to be covered by a recently approved incremental retail marijuana sales tax, while partners must pursue additional sustainable funding.
Ghent also said the partnership has helped maintain emergency shelter capacity after the severe weather shelter network closed: “Tonight, there’ll be 97 individuals in hotel rooms, in safe shelter instead of out there in the elements. Those 97 people are spread out in 63 hotel rooms because many of them are families,” he said.
After brief council remarks recognizing past leaders on the initiative, a council member moved to approve Resolution 02 2025; the motion was seconded and the clerk recorded, “The vote is 6 in favor. The motion carries.”
The resolution adopts the Tri Cities 2025–2026 Plan of Action and asks staff to report performance metrics to the councils as the plan is implemented.
