Colorado town claims it has slashed panhandling and homelessness by erecting this sign

A Colorado region has attempted to tackle homelessness and street-begging by placing signs with a blunt connection connected the corners and roads that were erstwhile flooded with panhandlers. 

'Handouts don't help' reads the signs meant to halt radical from giving wealth straight to homeless radical successful Douglas County.

A nexus connected the 70 signs passim the country prompts radical to marque donations connected the Douglas County Community Foundation website. This instauration helps link radical successful request with adjuvant resources. 

Republican Douglas County Commissioner Abe Laydon told Fox News: 'If you spot idiosyncratic who appears to beryllium down connected their luck, it feels atrocious erstwhile you thrust by and don't bash thing – but the flip broadside is we each cognize the stories of those who possibly did not usage each the funds they received successful the astir due way. 

'Maybe it's going to food, possibly it's going to drugs – you don't cognize wherever the wealth is going.'

Laydon, who founded the inaugural successful 2022, said that the much radical springiness retired wealth to panhandlers connected definite roads oregon corners, the much congested those areas would become. 

Thanks to these signs, which were besides posted successful newspapers and online, Laydon says those places are present mostly cleared. 

The fig of radical surviving connected the streets went from 43 individuals to six from 2022 to 2024, according to a study done by section nonprofits. 

The full fig of radical sleeping extracurricular oregon successful their cars has been reduced by 50 percent since the summertime of 2023.  

The inaugural began aft Laydon noticed a stateless encampment 'littered with liquor bottles and cause paraphernalia.'

'It was benignant of everywhere, but ne'er arsenic atrocious arsenic downtown Denver – we started astatine a bully place.

'[Our smaller stateless population] gave america the accidental to nip this occupation successful the bud earlier it became truly pervasive,' helium told Fox News.

Douglas County is located to the southbound of Denver, a metropolis wherever homelessness has been connected the emergence for years.

In 2022, Denver's stateless colonisation was 6,884. The pursuing year, that colonisation roseate to 9,065.

Denver's migrant crisis had resulted successful streets cluttered with tents arsenic politicians conflict to find a solution.

Shelters reached maximum capableness arsenic 40,000 migrants came to the metropolis astatine the opening of the year.  

In May, the radical surviving successful these encampments issued a database of demands they had for the sanctuary metropolis to fulfill earlier they would see moving.