Tag: Denver Homeless Shelter
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Denver bought hotel to house homeless but 15 months later it hasn’t opened
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver officials celebrated the purchase of a 96-unit hotel last year with much hype, envisioning a homeless shelter that would offer an array of “supportive” services such as case management and therapy. The city described the former Stay Inn hotel as having recently undergone updates. Then-Mayor…
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Denver signals shift in homeless focus toward permanent housing, treatment
Editor’s note: This is the third in a four-part series looking into Mayor Mike Johnston’s priorities for 2024. This installment focuses on the mayor’s goal of getting homeless people out of the city’s streets. Read about the mayor’s campaign to revitalize downtown Denver, reduce violent crime and increase the affordable housing inventory. You can also find the series here. A…
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Denver’s hotel-turned-homeless shelters become hotbeds of violence and drugs
911 data reveals the homeless hotels attract more calls than regular hotels in the city
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Denver considers $2M grant to aid homeless mental health, drug abuse services
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The Denver City Council on Monday will consider a $2 million grant agreement which, if approved, would provide mental health and substance abuse services at temporary, non-congregate homeless shelter sites under the mayor’s housing initiative. The grant directly impacts Denver’s “House1000 Behavioral Health and Substance Misuse” program, which oversees hotel-turned-homeless shelters and “micro-communities” across the…
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Denver cuts operator’s security budget at hotel-turned homeless shelter following shootings, deaths
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As Denver struggles to keep a hotel-turned homeless shelter secure, the city decided to cut down the site operator’s security budget and provide its own security measures instead. The Salvation Army is under a $10 million contract with Denver to operate, oversee and secure the former DoubleTree hotel, located at 4040 N. Quebec St. in…
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Denver opening 2 emergency homeless shelters during snowstorm
At the onset of Denver’s midweek snowstorm, the city is opening two emergency overnight shelters for homeless people needing somewhere to stay. Denver and the metro Denver area are under a winter storm watch starting 6 p.m., Wednesday, with the potential for 6-12 inches of snow to accumulate by Friday morning, according to the National…
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Denver to consider $115M purchase of Denver Post building, former hotel
The Denver City Council on Monday will consider spending $115 million to complete two major city purchases. In January, the council approved spending $88.5 million to acquire the former Denver Post headquarters. Monday’s measure states that the city will not spend more than $90 million acquiring the property, which last sold for $93.4 million in 2006. …
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Homeless people find ‘comfort’ staying at Denver Coliseum
Vince Lepre celebrated his 17th birthday enlisting into the military during the Vietnam war. Roughly half a century later, he celebrated his 68th birthday as a homeless man keeping warm at Denver Coliseum, which the city temporarily turned into an emergency shelter at the onset of Colorado’s cold weather. The shelter will close on Saturday.…
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As cold approaches, Mayor Mike Johnston opens Denver Coliseum as emergency homeless shelter
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As cold weather creeps up over the next few days, Denver’s housing department plans to open the Denver Coliseum to homeless people as an emergency shelter for a week starting Friday afternoon. In a statement, Mayor Mike Johnston described the move as a “pilot” project. The mayor said the city is testing the idea perhaps…
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Denver activating 2 emergency homeless shelters this weekend
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Denver will activate two emergency shelters for homeless people four days straight in light of a potentially cold and snowy weekend. The Department of Housing Stability plans to open overnight shelters at the former DoubleTree hotel at 4040 Quebec St. and the former Best Western at 4595 Quebec St. The city, during previous emergency shelter…