Boulder’s only general-population shelter for the homeless, All Roads (formerly Boulder Shelter for the Homeless) is reducing its capacity amid cuts in local government grants and “ongoing uncertainty around state and federal funding for homelessness services.”
The shelter will reduce the number of beds it provides each night from 180 to 160 beginning April 21. The reduction comes after the organization increased its capacity just last June, but the cuts in local funding since “have made it impossible to maintain the staffing necessary for that level of service,” according to a March 20 statement from the organization.
Since last June, the shelter has turned people away on two out of three nights because the facility was at capacity, according to the city’s homelessness dashboard.
One of the nonprofit’s grants from the county was slashed by $280,000 from 2024 to 2025, a 30% reduction of that grant and the largest in the organization’s 42-year history. The organization receives $1.5 million in state and federal funding, according to an All Roads spokesperson.
Whether the shelter can increase its capacity again in the winter, when more people typically sleep there, will depend on securing new funding, the statement said.
According to spokesperson Andy Schultheiss, the shelter would return to the higher capacity if enough funds are raised to exceed the annual budget. The shortfall causing the reduction is about $150,000 he said.