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Aidan Reed

Aidan Reed

Aidan Reed is a co-chair of the Boulder County Democratic Socialists of America chapter and is co-lead for Solutions Not Safe Zones. Reed is a grant writer and enjoys competitive distance running in his free time.

COMMENTARY

Enforcement-only approaches to homelessness don’t make us safer

By: and - September 12, 2023

Across the state of Colorado — and much of the country — homelessness is on the rise. At the last point-in-time count, Boulder County had over 800 homeless or housing-insecure residents, with around 450 in the city of Boulder itself. By comparison, July’s point-in-time count recorded over 9,000 people experiencing homelessness in Denver, a 31% increase […]