Friends, you’re going to laugh at today’s absurdity.

But first, the quick background story…

The state of Colorado has a chronic homelessness problem:

• It’s one of the worst in the nation per capita for homelessness.

• Over 10,000 people are homeless on any given night.

• Over 1,000 veterans experience homelessness every year.

• 21,560 public school students experience homelessness every year.

• It’s brutally cold in the winter, adding many dangerous risk factors.

And Colorado is absolutely to blame for the problem:

• Housing is chronically unaffordable (this is the biggest reason by far)

• They refuse to crack down on for-profit land-lorders

• They refuse to ban Airbnb

• They refuse to ban institutional investment in rentals properties

• They refuse to build affordable owner-occupied houses

• They banned outdoor camping

• They passed more than 350 anti-homeless laws including banning sleeping in your car and refusing people the right to rest

• They allow corporations to suppress wages to keep housing unaffordable

• They don’t have enough shelters because they never bothered to build them

• They couldn’t be bothered to sufficiently invest in mental healthcare

In other words: Colorado set itself up for homelessness.

Like many states, it built a corporate economy and a social climate in which cities filled with homeless people were mathematically inevitable.

Luckily, the state’s brilliant bureaucrats now have a sure-fire solution to tackle homelessness:

Let hard-working families sleep in their cars.

Yep.

I know what you’re thinking…

The people running Colorado must be high.

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