Bent County ranks among highest sheltered homeless population in the state - La Junta Tribune-Democrat

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Bent County ranks among highest sheltered homeless population in the state - La Junta Tribune-Democrat

JOE ZEMBA Bent County has the second largest share of homeless people in counties outside of El Paso, metro Denver and northern Colorado, according to a point-in-time (PIT) count of sheltered people living in those areas. Bent County accounted for nineteen percent of the 787 people who were homeless at the time of the count, which tallies the number of homeless who are sheltered on one night in January. Only Mesa County, at 28 percent, ranked hi…