Colorado Springs Launches Citywide Homelessness Response Team

Overview

• Mayor Yemi Mobolade announced the Citywide Homelessness Response Team to centralize coordination and accountability across municipal departments.
• The city reports 59% of its 61 Homelessness Response Action Plan items are complete and 25% are underway, and it says the new team will speed remaining deliverables.
• The team brings enforcement units such as the police and municipal court together with service units including housing and homelessness response, parks, transit and emergency management.
• City officials listed enforcement, cleanup, outreach, shelter, housing, supportive services and employment as the coordinated priorities for the new effort.
• Officials said the city will keep working with partners such as Pikes Peak United Way to link people experiencing homelessness to services, which could speed shelter placements and case referrals.