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It's that time of the week when we check in with our colleagues at the Colorado Sun to find out more about the local stories on their radar. Sun Editor Larry Ryckman spoke with KUNC's Beau Baker about some of the news they're reporting this week.

Earlier this month, Denver City Council approved a contribution of $2 million to the Denver Basic Income Project, a community collaboration that's studying the effect of cash payments to those experiencing homelessness.

Loveland city staff took heat from residents over a proposed temporary shelter. The city needs more shelter space in order to enforce its camping ban.

Homelessness is a growing problem in Western cities. Some communities are setting up their own encampments.

With the spread of the delta variant prolonging the end of the pandemic, the city of Boulder recently re-opened a center that provides people experiencing homelessness a place to recover from COVID-19.

In 2016, Denver launched a pilot supportive housing program for people experiencing homelessness. The program was created to explore a simple question: what happens if you give people experiencing chronic homelessness a permanent place to live, and intensive social services?

In Colorado Springs, The Place is a shelter for young people experiencing homelessness. The pandemic has only increased the number of individuals who are unhoused, but in the early days of lockdowns, The Place鈥檚 outreach team had trouble finding youth.

Housing insecurity and homelessness were growing issues even before the pandemic, due to Colorado鈥檚 population and high cost of living. A supportive housing project in Fort Collins is changing what it looks like to get people housed.

In 2019, Colorado launched a new program to keep people with unmet mental health needs out of the criminal justice system. But, over the summer, pandemic-related budget cuts gutted these mental health diversion programs.

Organizers of the Point-In-Time count of people experiencing homelessness in Denver, Boulder and the seven-county metro region have called off the 2021 count for unsheltered people. A count of the sheltered population only will take place on Feb. 25.