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Residents urge Denver council to act on houselessness and service gaps

City and County of Denver City Council (public comment session)
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Multiple speakers pressed the City and County of Denver to address mounting houselessness, citing families sleeping outdoors, limited resource-center help, and the need for improved safe-parking and outreach rather than punitive enforcement.

Multiple residents used the public comment period to press the City and County of Denver for faster, better-coordinated help for people without stable housing.

Speakers described a range of experiences: HGG said the city faces "an epidemic Of an house families in Denver," noting a family with a 1-month-old child sleeping outdoors and warning that the crisis is worsening.…

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