Tag: Denver Homelessness
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Denver on pace to issue over 4,000 homeless-related crime citations, warnings this year
Since 2022, people obstructing streets or other public passageways have made up for roughly 88% of homeless-related warnings or citations handed out.
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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’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 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 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 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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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…