Tag: Homelessness
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Denver set to expand transportation access to area homeless shelters
Denver’s Department of Housing Stability will expand transportation access to area shelters for homeless people in 2023, according to a news release. Department officials will finalize a $450,000 contract with Colorado Student Transportation to provide daytime transportation to and from overnight shelters soon, according to the release. Currently, another operator provides early morning, late afternoon…
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Denver daytime warming centers to open ahead of cold temperatures
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save All operational recreation centers in Denver will be open as warming centers on Tuesday, according to a news release from the Denver Department of Public Health and the Environment. The recreation centers will be open during normal business hours. Meteorologists predicted snow starting to fall…
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Adopt higher temperature threshold that triggers emergency shelter, Denver housing advocates argue
As a cold spell blankets Colorado, housing advocates argued the temperature threshold for Denver to open its emergency “warming” shelters needs to be higher than 10°F. Denver District 9 Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca said the current threshold is “so out of step with regional standards.” Those standards, she said, are 32 degrees during wet conditions and 20 degrees…
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Denver Council approves $1 million contract for motel homeless shelters
The Denver City Council on Monday approved a nearly $1 million contract with The Fax Partnership. Funded with American Rescue Plan Act money, the contract is designed to help The Fax pay down debt and renovate six rooms in two motels serving as homeless shelters The two motels, located at 8405 and 8415 E. Colfax…
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Aurora green lights multi-million dollar homelessness reduction system
Aurora will begin work to overhaul its homelessness reduction system after a divided council approved a proposal that calls for a new campus, incentivizes people’s participation in supportive services and incorporates conditions people must meet to receive transitional housing. Council deliberated through nearly 17 proposed amendments to the resolution, sponsored by Mayor Mike Coffman, for…
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Denver voters let landlords off the hook as early results show Ordinance 305 failing | ELECTION NIGHT 2022
Election night results show Denver voters soundly rejecting a proposal requiring landlords to pay a $75 per year per property to fund legal representation for renters facing eviction. The city has counted 128,937 votes, with just under 60% of voters rejecting the ordinance as of 2:00 p.m. Wednesday. The ordinance was expected to raise just under $12…
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Aurora council delays homelessness resolution after fiery debate
The vote on a proposal to overhaul Aurora’s approach to reducing homelessness was delayed Monday night after council clashed over a series of proposed changes. Mayor Mike Coffman has been putting together a resolution that directs the city manager to forge a new “comprehensive approach” to addressing homelessness in the city. A key part to…
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Think tank’s economist publicly lambasts homeless study but privately has ‘no problems’ with method
While the Colorado Fiscal Institute publicly lambasted a report on homelessness, the senior economist prominently cited in its criticism said he privately has no problems with the methodology in a text exchange with one of the study’s authors. “I dug deep into your research methodology and had no problems with it especially giving the range,” Colorado…
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Colorado think tanks spar over homelessness spending report
Colorado’s think tanks on Friday sparred over a new report saying the cost of tackling homelessness in metro Denver is on track to cost $2 billion over three years, with critics calling the study unreliable, even intentionally misleading, and authors standing squarely behind their research, insisting it’s transparent and accurate. If the intense criticism and…
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Almost $2 billion allocated to tackle homelessness in metro Denver over 3 years, study says
Local governments and nonprofits are on track to spend nearly $2 billion over a three-year period to tackle homelessness in some counties in the Denver metro area, according to a new study by a nonpartisan think tank. Although, some projections in the study may be premature and two other Colorado think tanks plus a service…