Tag: Denver Homeless
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Progressive group criticizes Mike Johnston’s homeless strategy, while chamber says people feel safer
Denver’s largest homeless advocacy group condemns policing homeless people living on the streets.
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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 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 sweeps homeless encampment but offers no shelter this time
The Johnston administration has created an expectation from homeless people that they would be offered housing if their encampment is swept
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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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South Broadway open-air drug use is a ‘societal issue,’ Denver library official says
Ross-Broadway library branch is a “harm reduction” center for drug addicts, homeless people
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Denver considers $2M state grant to assist housing homeless
The Denver City Council on Monday will consider accepting a $2 million state grant to provide homeless people with essential services that include transitioning from temporary shelters into permanent housing. Denver’s housing department plans to use the money for rapid rehousing efforts throughout the city over the next two years. If approved, Denver will receive…
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Denver homeless hotel has 7 deaths since January
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Seven people have died at a hotel-turned-shelter for Denver’s homeless people since it opened in December, according to the city’s medical examiner. The former DoubleTree by Hilton hotel serves hundreds of homeless people under a campaign by Mayor Mike Johnston to move 2,000 individuals out…
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Two victims at DoubleTree were shot, Denver’s medical examiner says
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Denver’s medical examiner said the man and a woman found dead inside a room at the DoubleTree shelter for homeless people hotel on Saturday were shot. The examiner ruled the deaths of Sandra Cervantes, 43, and Dustin Nunn, 38, a homicide. Cervantes suffered one gunshot wound and Nunn died of multiple gunshot wounds, a spokesperson…
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Double homicide at Denver homeless shelter prompts new security measures
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The double homicide of a man and woman inside a homeless shelter has prompted Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s administration to launch new protocols aimed at enhancing security. A review of 911 data involving shootings, drug use, theft or other acts of violence associated with the…