AURORA | For the second year in a row, the number of homeless people living on Aurora’s streets has declined as the city’s shelter capacity has increased.
The 2026 Point in Time Count, an annual snapshot of homelessness in the seven-county Denver metro area, reports in Aurora there were 638 people in shelters on the night of the January count and 194 unsheltered people. Also, for the first time in at least four years, there were no unsheltered families in the city.
From last year to this year, Aurora’s sheltered homeless population increased by 72% while the unsheltered count dropped 24%…