In Loveland, Colorado, as the homeless population increased, services, petty crimes, and open use of illicit drugs became a normal thing. Although this is not a product of homelessness, these practices are forms of self-preservation in their own way. These issues limit and continue the cycle that perpetuates the harm and stigma. It prevents outgroup assistance from reaching those in impoverished situations and limits the trust of those in impoverished situations when offered, utilizing, or receiving services that would help them where they are. These issues form a full circle of detriment to the whole of the population, homelessness and the rest of the community. The more our communities fall into patterns of survival and self-sustainability, which often come from the risk of poverty, the more sustainability factors such as electricity, food, clothing, hygiene, transportation, water, and housing are stressors that feel as if we need to search out alternative means to sustain. In Loveland, there are two transitional housing complexes and many low-income housing communities. Many of which are not upkept due to the insufficient funding from the state and the renters. As well as unethical management practices. However, they intend to conduct their business; those who live there depend on the sustainability of their state and local communities. We focus heavily on food stamps and TANIF in today's discussion, but what about the theft that limits the sustainability of your grocery stores? The limitations of business are directly correlated with the impact on how we care for our community. This is just one small area of Colorado in which housing stability is still finding difficulty in sustaining its population of six million occupants.

Further utilizing Loveland as an example since the beginning of 2026 Loveland resource center has closed down, the overnight shelters are gone, and public enforcement of camping and loitering of those considered vagrant. Our systems are limited in how we can assist and protect the functionality of our communities without looking at the systems and procedures utilized in building our communities. The functionality of a community is dependent on the accessibility and regulation set to sustain and create a prosperous environment for those it governs. The Loveland examples are actions taken that designate the homeless community as the bearers of these harms to our community, but what holds them there? What produces these communities? And is it easier to focus the public’s gaze on the community that many in the general population consider outsiders as if the environment that we see and live within is not due to the world we create? The more we averte our attention to the impacts we form every day the higher the risk you and your neighbors have to be apart of a cultural outcome you choose not to acknowledge. The more our society slows in its ability to accommodate its population the more it becomes out of our hands to protect it. Thomas Moore on Society: "We assume that homelessness has to do with economics, when it is more the mirror of the society and culture we have made."