After one year of its new initiative, a Colorado city no longer has any homeless veterans living on the street
In 2023, the mayor of Denver, Colorado launched the All In Mile High initiative to reduce all homelessness in the city. Specifically, the program prioritized ending veteran “street homelessness.”
Street homelessness refers to when someone lives on the streets or in other places not intended for human habitation, with no safe or sheltered place to go at night.
In addition to sheltering more than 2,200 people experiencing homelessness, as of December 19, 2024, the city officially ended street homelessness among veterans.
Why is this good news?Veteran homelessness is a pervasive problem in America; On a single night in January 2024, over 32,000 veterans were experiencing homelessness across the country. Denver’s initiative offers a blueprint for others to follow — to provide this basic need for those who have sacrificed so much.
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Most violent crime rates have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels in the U.S.
In 2024, the number of homicides across the United States declined by 16%, continuing a recent downward trajectory. The year prior, in 2023, criminal homicide was down by 11.6%, the largest single-year decline in two decades.
That drop means there were 631 fewer homicides in the 29 cities that provided data so far. If the data stays consistent as more jurisdictions report their data, 2024 would be among the largest single-year drops in homicides since at least 1960.
Despite this encouraging progress, 56% of Americans believe that crime has increased nationally or see it as an “extremely” or “very” serious problem — though that concern has decreased in the last year, too.
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