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WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2, 2023
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Clear Creek Sheriff’s Office fails to complete all consultant recommendations
Our in-depth look at the housing crisis
BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE OLOVE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
High home prices, lack of supply sever metro residents from communities Lower- and middle-income people struggle to live where they work BY ROBERT TANN COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
When Chris Laney moved into his new three-bedroom home last summer, he felt like he’d won the lottery. After more than a decade of chasing the cheapest rent across the metro area, the Littleton bartender finally has a house to call his own. “I almost feel guilty that I have it,” said Laney, 49.
Laney is one of a handful of residents who have secured housing through a subsidized program aimed at helping lower- and middle-income people live where they work. But as cities and towns contend with historically high home costs and a lack of supply,
Some recommendations from a 2021 consultant’s report obtained by the Clear Creek Sheriff ’s Office have not yet been completed, and many will not be at all, according to Undersheriff John Stein. The report by KRW Associates, the agency retained by the county to perform the assessment, highlighted 51 key issues and 17 recommendations. At the Clear Creek Board of County Commissioners meeting on Jan. 24, Stein addressed the recommendations the agency presented and explained how the Sheriff ’s Office has responded to them in the past year and a half. The first recommendation given by the consulting firm was for the Sheriff ’s office to form a Mission, Vision and Core values statement. In the year and a half since the report, the department has failed to come up with a statement, but said the recommendation is “under evaluation.” Stein said in his presentation that the mission of the sheriff ’s department has remained “obvious” to the public, and the department isn’t
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