The City of Loveland is wrestling with how to solve homelessness after deciding to eliminate nearly all of its city-funded shelter space. Last week, Loveland City Council voted to keep a ban on encampments — but continued to prohibit sweeps unless there’s empty shelter space.
Loveland has a population of about 81,000 people; only 180 people were tallied as homeless in the 2025 Point in Time Count, a federally funded exercise conducted every January across the country. Most of Loveland’s homeless residents were in a shelter, according to the PIT count, with only 78 living on the streets. Larimer County’s total count was about 580 homeless individuals, with approximately 190 of them living outside.
The City and County of Denver, which is almost ten times Loveland’s size, tallied more than 7,300 homeless individuals, with 6,500 of them in shelter and about 800 living on the streets, according to the 2025 PIT count…