Tag: Homelessness
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston explores four types of housing in homelessness strategy
Mike Johnston’s administration is targeting four different types of housing in its efforts to transition 1,000 homeless people off Denver streets by the year’s end and adopting a different approach to enforcing the city’s camping ban from past administrations, the new mayor said on Monday. Johnston spoke to reporters on Tuesday to provide an update…
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston declares emergency, vows to house 1,000 homeless people
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New mayor says 197 publicly-owned parcels have been identified as potential sites for tiny homes
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‘This isn’t a good start’: Tensions flare at Mayor-elect Johnston’s homelessness public forum
The last of Mayor-elect Mike Johnston’s public forums concluded on Friday with one question ever-present throughout the night: “Where’s the mayor?” Johnston did not attend, or plan to attend, any of his 28 public forums over the last 10 days, which were led by his committee chairs and designed to collect community feedback to develop the priorities…
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Denver police address downtown homelessness, violent crime in public safety meeting
Denver Police addressed increasing violent crime and homelessness in a public safety meeting Thursday night, relaying challenges with strained resources and homeless encampment rules and asking for public feedback. The meeting was held at McGregor Square’s Rally Hotel at 6 p.m., as thousands of baseball fans flooded the area to attend the Rockies vs. Dodgers game…
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Denver City Council backs providing campsites for homeless
A bill to make a pandemic-era tool to provide homeless people with campsites a permanent — rather than temporary — policy earned the support of a majority of the Denver City Council on Monday. The bill amends the portion of city code that permits temporary tiny home villages to also allow a “temporary managed community use” or…
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Denver affordable housing development opens 72 units for people with brain injuries
Denver’s Office of Housing Stability (HOST) Wednesday celebrated the grand opening of the Valor on the Fax supportive housing apartment building. The apartments provide 72 units of housing to homeless people in Denver. Located at 7900 E. Colfax Ave., Valor emphasizes care for homeless people suffering from brain injuries or related disabilities. It is one…
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Boulder City Council announced location for Homelessness Day Services Center
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Boulder’s Homelessness Day Services Center will be located at 1844 Folsom St., which is a vacant one-story, 6,000 square foot office building currently. Boulder City Council and staff announced the new location at the study session Thursday, according to a press release. The center will…
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Rhonda’s Place offers 49 new affordable housing units in Denver
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The latest city-supported affordable housing development, Rhonda’s Place, is already accepting new residents for its one-bedroom apartments and supportive, wrap-around services from Wellpower, according to a news release. Denver’s Department of Housing Stability (HOST) along with City Council President Jamie Torres held a grand opening…
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Where do Kelly Brough and Mike Johnston stand on Denver’s most pressing issues?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denverites went to the polls Tuesday night and, while votes are still being tallied, two clear front-runners emerged: Kelly Brough and Mike Johnston. The candidates took their lead early and maintained their edge with each subsequent set of results released by the Denver Clerk and…
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Leslie Herod shares plans to build on 80 city-owned vacant lots in Denver
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As if on cue, a city of Denver pickup truck Wednesday rolled on to an empty, city-owned lot to tell a group of people in a homeless encampment they had to pack up their belongings and move to another location within two hours. The truck…