Tag: Homelessness
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Arvada welcomes 120 new businesses in 2025, looks to bolster infrastructure
In front of a packed room with more than 100 residents, Arvada officials celebrated the success of a growing business community bringing in millions more in tax revenue and looked forward to infrastructure improvements in 2026. The Arvada Chamber of Commerce held its annual State of the City address Friday morning at the Social Capitol Events,…
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Denver mayor selects Cole Chandler as next chief of housing stability
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has picked a policy adviser who played a key role in his campaign to curb homelessness as the next chief of the city’s housing department. Cole Chandler is the new executive director of the Department of Housing Stability, Johnston said in a statement. “Cole Chandler has been instrumental in turning our…
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Relaunched Lakewood Navigation Center offers shelter, resources
Once a shelter against extreme weather conditions, the Lakewood navigation center has officially opened after nearly a year of renovations, part of the city’s campaign to combat its growing homeless population. The city, in partnership with the Volunteers of America Colorado, opened the VOA Colorado Navigation Center on Friday — though the center has been…
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Aurora homeless shelter opened too early, CEO says, as mold and plumbing issues emerge
Aurora’s largest homeless services project launched “way too early,” its CEO told city leaders Tuesday, saying the rushed opening left residents living amid mold, plumbing failures, and other issues inside the former hotel. During Tuesday’s Housing, Neighborhood Services and Redevelopment Policy Committee meeting, Advance Pathways CEO Jim Goebelbecker said he didn’t think the building was…
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Aurora grass fire started by cooking at homeless camp, investigators say
Aurora Fire Rescue responded to a vegetation fire on Wednesday afternoon caused by people cooking in a homeless encampment, according to an AFR alert. Firefighters received a call about the fire, which started in an open space near 2200 N. Himalaya Road, just south of I-70 near KeHE Distributors, around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. Due to…
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Home health care agency for mental and physical conditions expands from Colorado Springs to Denver
A model of home health care that’s relatively new to Colorado — in which skilled nursing is delivered regularly in homes, homeless shelters and elsewhere for patients who have multiple physical and mental illnesses — is expanding from serving two counties in southern Colorado to encompass four more counties long the Front Range. Innovive Health, founded…
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PERSPECTIVE: Housing alone isn’t enough to solve homelessness
The White House recently took an important step toward rethinking America’s approach to homelessness. An executive order signed by President Trump last year directs federal housing funds to support a broader set of interventions beyond the long-dominant “Housing First” model. This shift is long overdue — and it should be reinforced and codified into law by Congress. New nationwide data now…
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Aurora City Council considers bringing back notice before sweeping homeless camps
New Aurora City Council member Rob Andrews proposed a resolution that, if passed at a future regular council meeting, would bring back the requirement for a 72-hour notice before homeless encampment sweeps. In February 2025, Aurora lawmakers got rid of requirements to provide shelter options and a 72-hour notice before sweeps. The decision followed a…
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Jeffco saw largest increase in homelessness rate in metro area last year
Jefferson County saw the highest increase in the rate of homelessness in the metro area, though Denver still dwarfed its neighbor’s total number of homeless people. Jeffco saw a 27% increase in homelessness from 2024 to 2025 — the largest increase within the metro, according to Kerry Wrenick, regional homeless coordinator for the county. Those…
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Denver seeks executive director for Department of Housing Stability
The City of Denver is on the hunt for its next Department of Housing Stability executive director, a role vacated late last year by Jamie Rife. Along with a generous benefits package, which includes a lifelong monthly pension after five years of service, the salary range for HOST’s top chair, according to the job posting,…