BOULDER, Colo. — Becoming homeless is oftentimes not a choice.

"I was in the Marine Corps for a minute, I worked at AT&T for 33 years," said Edward Eganhouse. "I just happened to be homeless and had nowhere to go."

In an effort to keep others just like Eganhouse off the streets, the City of Boulder launched its first strategy to address homelessness.

"When we started the strategy in 2017, we housed 25 people that first year. We've moved since then to housing and helping individuals exit homelessness by about 300 individuals per year. It's been a drastic increase," said Kurt Firnhaber, director of Housing and Human Services for the City of Boulder.

The results of the efforts so far were recently published in an update report, which you can explore below.

The city went from using 161 ho

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