Tag: Colorado Coalition For The Homeless
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Colorado Coalition for the Homeless workers rally, citing low pay, high turnover
Dozens of Colorado Coalition for the Homeless frontline workers and members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 105 rallied Thursday outside of a downtown CCH office building on north Broadway, calling on the nonprofit to address low wages and poor working conditions. The rally also comes on the heels of the city’s recent…
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Denver City Council to revisit vote on emergency shelter funding
The Denver City Council will have a light agenda on Monday. Meetings will continue in the Parr-Weidner Community Room while renovations progress in the council chambers. Returning to the council from the Community Planning and Housing Committee is a resolution to fund hotel rooms and ballrooms to accommodate overflow from the city’s emergency shelter beds…
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Historic Denver YMCA to be transformed into affordable housing
U.S. Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks placed the original cornerstone for the Denver YMCA at the corner of 16th Avenue and Lincoln Street in late 1906 in an “elaborate and formal ceremony.” And as this year comes to an end, so will the YMCA’s stake in its longtime downtown home at 25 E. 16th Ave.…
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Some of homeless provider’s workers unionize, others reject organized labor
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Efforts to unionize employees of one of Colorado’s largest homeless providers failed in area and succeeded in another. The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, which provides homeless-related services, employs around 850 people. Two weeks ago, roughly 80 employees within the housing support services team — case managers, social works and clinical providers — voted to unionize with…
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Denver mayor opens 215 units of housing, pushes for $100 million sales tax hike
Denver officially opened more than 200 units of affordable housing from an old hotel, a project that used $13.6 million in federal funding. Mayor Mike Johnston said the new housing is part of a larger regional solution to homelessness, which spiked this year, based on an annual count, despite tens of millions of dollars allocated…
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Affluent Denver suburb accused of bullying disabled homeless guests at Motel 6
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Greenwood Village now faces an ADA lawsuit in U.S. District Court
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Denver considers $1 million contract for homeless mental health services
Funding assists ‘strengths-based case management’ at multiple Colorado Coalition for the Homeless permanent supportive housing sites.
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Denver City Council approves $3.1M to convert hotel rooms into supportive housing
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The Denver City Council unanimously approved a funding agreement worth $3.1 million to assist the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless with rehabilitating 107 hotel rooms into studio apartments. The rooms being rehabilitated sit within the former Clarion Hotel at 200 W. 48th Ave. The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless will add services geared towards assisting…
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Aurora council confirms federal funds for homeless nonprofits
The Aurora City Council confirmed in a study session on Monday night its direction on agreements with homeless service providers that will receive American Rescue Plan Act money, a decision the council made at its winter workshop in February. Monday night’s confirmation of those funds will help staff move forward with agency agreements. Late last…