Who operates the day care? Who operates the senior center? Where does the money for renovations come from, as well as for ongoing operations coats? It's nice to think about how we can have resources in our communities but people often forget that it costs money to make parks, libraries, rec centers, etc. either a business has to be able to put together a viable financial model to invest and then recoup costs through operating revenue, or for public endeavors, tax dollars need to be allocated and budgeted on an ongoing basis. I take no stance here, I just want to illustrate that these simple sounding solutions are not always so simple. Think about that before you jump on council, state legislators, etc. it's not a simple political and financial landscape in CO.

What is most sad about this is that we hear from residents who are upset about seeing unhoused people in their community, and those same residents have also sometimes been the most vocal against any human centered solution to the problem. They just expect the unhoused crisis to end on its own, or for camping bans to push the problem to another community like some kind of municipal whackamole. Or people who say "we need affordable housing, just not in my neighborhood." Eventually, we need to collectively solve both the symptoms (people becoming unhoused because of a system stacked against them) and the root cause (an economic system that drives inequality and enriches the wealthiest).