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Arapahoe County sees 35% drop in unsheltered homelessness, no families found sleeping outside

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What to know about Arapahoe County sees 35% drop in unsheltered homelessness, no families found sleeping outside

— Arapahoe County's latest point-in-time count shows a 35% drop in unsheltered homelessness compared to last year — and for the first time as far as county leaders can remember, no families were found sleeping outside on the night of the count in January.

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What happened

— Arapahoe County's latest point-in-time count shows a 35% drop in unsheltered homelessness compared to last year — and for the first time as far as county leaders can remember, no families were found sleeping outside on the night of the count in January.

Why it matters

“I love the work that we do, and I think sometimes it's hard to use quantitative data to always show the impact, but I know that it makes a difference,” said Julie Hall, program director at HAAT Force, an Englewood nonprofit dedicated to getting unhoused…

Common ground

Last year's count found 14 families sleeping outside, all in Aurora.

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Claim 1: “Last year's count found 14 families sleeping outside, all in Aurora”
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While evidence confirms Aurora is in Arapahoe County, there is no data provided regarding the number of families sleeping outside in the previous year's count.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arapahoe County ( ə-RAP-ə-hoh) is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, its population was 655,070, making it the third-most populous county in Colorado. The county se…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapahoe_County,_Colorado
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Aurora () is a home rule city located in Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties, Colorado, United States. The city's population was 386,261 at the 2020 census, with 336,035 in Arapahoe County, 47,720 i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,_Colorado
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Denver is the central city of a conurbation region in the U.S. state of Colorado. The conurbation includes one continuous region consisting of the six central counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_metropolitan_area
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Claim 2: “Unsheltered veterans dropped 46% — from 28 to 15”
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The evidence discusses unsheltered veterans in Central California and Oahu, but provides no data for Arapahoe County.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arapahoe is a city in Furnas County, in the southern part of the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. As of the 2020 census, Arapahoe had a population of 1,002.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapahoe,_Nebraska
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arapahoe Basin ( ə-RAP-ə-hoh; often shortened to A-Basin, or simply The Basin) is an alpine ski area in the Rocky Mountains of the United States, in the Arapaho National Forest of Colorado. Arapahoe B…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapahoe_Basin
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arapahoe County ( ə-RAP-ə-hoh) is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, its population was 655,070, making it the third-most populous county in Colorado. The county se…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapahoe_County,_Colorado
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Claim 3: “Last September, Arapahoe County commissioners approved new affordable housing incentives for developers”
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The evidence confirms the existence of Arapahoe County and its general services, but there is no mention of affordable housing incentives approved by commissioners in September.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Arapaho (/ əˈræpəhoʊ / ə-RAP-ə-hoh; French: Arapahos, Gens de Vache) are a Native American people historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming. They were close allies of the Cheyenne …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapaho
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web search NEUTRAL — 23 hours ago · Find info for residential, commercial, ag, vacant land, and business personal property. Find the services you need: registration, emissions, license plates and more. Look up an inmate, …
https://www.arapahoeco.gov/
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web search NEUTRAL — Arapahoe Community College, founded in 1965 as Arapahoe Junior College, was the first 2-year college in the greater Denver metro area. The college grew out of a grassroots effort by Littleton resident…
https://www.arapahoe.edu/
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Claim 4: “Arapahoe County's latest point-in-time count shows a 35% drop in unsheltered homelessness compared to last year”
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The provided evidence contains Point-in-Time counts for Franklin County (Ohio), San Diego, and Sonoma County, as well as a general regional count for Denver, but no specific data for Arapahoe County's percentage drop in unsheltered homelessness.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arapahoe County may refer to: Arapahoe County, Colorado Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory, a large county that included the entire western portion of the Territory of Kansas. Arrappahoe County, Jeffe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapahoe_County
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arapahoe County ( ə-RAP-ə-hoh) is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, its population was 655,070, making it the third-most populous county in Colorado. The county se…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapahoe_County,_Colorado
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The U.S. State of Colorado is divided into 64 counties. Two of these, the City and County of Denver, which serves as the state capital, and the City and County of Broomfield, have consolidated city an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Colorado
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Claim 5: “no families were found sleeping outside on the night of the count in January”
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No evidence was provided that mentions the number of families sleeping outside in Arapahoe County during the January count.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Denver ( DEN-vər) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Officially a consolidated city and county, it is located in the South Platte River valley on the western edge o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Electric Daisy Carnival, commonly known as EDC, is an electronic dance music festival organized by promoter and distributor Insomniac. The annual flagship event, EDC Las Vegas, is held in May at the L…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of former United States counties, a list of United States counties (administrative subunits of a U.S. state) that no longer exist. They were established by a state, provincial, colonia…
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Claim 6: “HAAT Force, an Englewood nonprofit dedicated to getting unhoused individuals into motel rooms when severe weather strikes”
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The search results for 'HAAT' refer to assistive technology models, antenna array testbeds, and radio height calculations. No evidence was found for an Englewood nonprofit called HAAT Force.
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web search NEUTRAL — The model of human activity and Assistive Technology (HAAT), is aimed at people with disabilities or with some functional, cognitive, sensory limitation in order to provide an assistive technology to …
http://www.caribbeanot.com/uploads/7/2/1/7/72179163/poster_b…
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web search NEUTRAL — To calculate height above average terrain (HAAT), you will need topographical maps (or equivalent topography software) that span at least 10 miles out from your repeater site in all directions.
https://wi-repeaters.org/forms/haat_worksheet.pdf
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web search NEUTRAL — This chapter describes the Handheld Antenna Array Testbed (HAAT) system and associated hardware and software. The HAAT was developed based on the requirements of planned antenna diversity and adaptive…
https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/27291/c…
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Claim 7: “The number of youth found sleeping unsheltered dropped from 21 to 7 — a two-thirds reduction”
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The evidence discusses homelessness trends in Franklin, San Diego, and Snohomish counties, but contains no data regarding unsheltered youth in Arapahoe County.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arapahoe is a city in Furnas County, in the southern part of the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. As of the 2020 census, Arapahoe had a population of 1,002.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapahoe,_Nebraska
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arapahoe Basin ( ə-RAP-ə-hoh; often shortened to A-Basin, or simply The Basin) is an alpine ski area in the Rocky Mountains of the United States, in the Arapaho National Forest of Colorado. Arapahoe B…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapahoe_Basin
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arapahoe County ( ə-RAP-ə-hoh) is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, its population was 655,070, making it the third-most populous county in Colorado. The county se…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapahoe_County,_Colorado
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