SPRING 2025
Media
Welcome to our media center, where you’ll find news coverage, interviews, videos, podcasts, and other features highlighting the people, programs, and impact of All Roads Boulder.
Read Around the Block (below) for blog posts from All Roads CEO Mike Block and guests.
KGNU — A conversation about All Roads shelter’s new stay limits
On KGNU’s A Public Affair, Sam Fuqua hosted a conversation about new limits being imposed at Boulder’s All Roads homeless shelter.
Staff at All Roads spoke about why they have implemented maximum stay limits for people experiencing homelessness who arrive from outside Boulder County. Local attorney Andy McNulty, who opposes the new policy, also joined Fuqua in the studio.
Daily Camera — Homeless crisis necessitates local focus – from Boulder and everywhere else (Editorial)
Daily Camera — In the face of overwhelming need, All Roads will focus more resources on individuals with ties to Boulder (Opinion)
Boulder Reporting Lab — Boulder’s All Roads is adopting a fair and compassionate approach to homelessness sheltering
Opinion piece by Harold Niedzielski and Bob Yates.
Read the commentary at the Boulder Reporting Lab.
9 News video: Boulder chefs prepare meals at homeless shelter using donated ingredients
Blog
Around the Block
All Roads CEO Mike Block and guests offer insights on key issues affecting homelessness in Boulder County and more broadly.
Introducing All Roads Works
All Roads Works is an approach to creating “working exits” that reduces the number of steps and time needed to climb out of homelessness.
How emergency rooms help us understand the role of homeless shelters
How emergency rooms help us understand the role of homeless shelters | “So long as bad luck exists – and it always will – we will need…
Let these uncertain times drive our support for those in need
Let These Uncertain Times Drive our Support for Those in Need | “Am I going to lose my housing?” | This post by Michael Block originally…
Pop Quiz: Who’s Housed?
Pop Quiz – Who’s Housed? | Spoiler: Your support helped make it possible. | Since it’s Colorado Gives Day, let’s start out with a Boulder…
The Key Ingredient in Fighting Homelessness
The Key Ingredient in Fighting Homelessness | “…without the burning souls to drive the work, the good ideas will remain just that.” It’s a…
A Year of All-Day Welcome
A Year of All-Day Welcome | “More than 115 people who came in during the day resolved their homelessness…” | The All Roads Shelter has…
Reflections on Being Housing Insecure
Reflections on Being Housing Insecure | “The severe dislocation of that experience is hard to explain.” | I first moved to Boulder in 1993 to…
The Value of Agency
The Value of Agency | “You know who doesn’t put up a fight? People without hope.” | I heard Gillian Tett, Chair of the Financial Times…
Housing First at Its Core
Housing First at Its Core | Housing First at its core is a simple and obvious suggestion: | Since homelessness is the condition of not…