Colorado turns to ice-fishing tents to house homeless
“’I’d rather freeze than spend the night in a shelter,’ Peters said, noting the threat of theft or assault in traditional shelter facilities.
Cities across the United States have been struggling to deal with a surge in homelessness that has in part been blamed on a nationwide housing shortage. The situation in Colorado — where home prices already were at record highs — was made worse in December when hundreds of homes just northwest of Denver were destroyed by fire, sending victims in search of temporary housing.”