Tag: Housing First
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EDITORIAL: Aurora’s template for success on homelessness
With homelessness more or less unchanged over the past year in Colorado’s largest urban centers — numbers released this week show a slight dip in metro Denver and a small uptick in the Colorado Springs area — it’s worth another look at the innovative approach underway in Aurora. Colorado’s No. 3 city has been ramping…
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EDITORIAL: Dispelling illusions about homelessness
A Common Sense Institute report released last week affirms how soft-on-crime and easy-on-drugs policies make homelessness worse in wealthy, high-government-spending states like Colorado. To control for states with larger populations and thus higher homeless numbers, the report analyzed the number of homeless people per capita in each state. It turned out Colorado was top-10 across…
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EDITORIAL: Denver grows its homelessness-industrial complex
Mayor Mike Johnston’s latest pending pratfall on homelessness — having ex-cons staff Denver’s most troubled, city-run homeless hotel — is starting to look even worse. It turns out the San Francisco nonprofit that will employ offenders to run the city’s homeless shelter in the former DoubleTree Hotel at 4040 Quebec St., has an awkwardly close…
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In response to think tank report, Denver homeless experts say ‘work-first’ model doesn’t work
In response to a Common Sense Institute report claiming a “work-first” approach to addressing homelessness is the best approach, the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless countered in a news release this week that “housing-first” is best practice. Colorado Coalition for the Homeless called the CSI study “misleading” and “loosely informed” in the Tuesday release, saying…
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How we exposed Denver’s homeless industrial complex | Vince Bzdek
In an era when information, misinformation, disinformation, AI-created information, and down-right lies all gets tossed together in the same Mixmaster known as the internet, we journalists believe it’s important for us to occasionally show our work. To let you know who our sources were, what documents we obtained, what our reporting method looked like, and…
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Rhonda’s Place offers 49 new affordable housing units in Denver
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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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Denver buys another hotel to serve as transitional housing for homeless
The Denver City Council Tuesday approved a $9 million purchase of a hotel property in Denver’s Central Park neighborhood that will serve as a homeless shelter. The building will begin to house residents by late 2023. The hotel, a former La Quinta Inn, has 96 bedrooms. Ninety-five of those will be converted for use as…
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Denver Basic Income Project opens applications for participant selection
A program designed to give homeless people guaranteed income has begun to take applications. The Denver Basic Income Project, a public-private partnership that seeks to provide up to $12,000 to homeless individuals, will accept applications through Nov. 3. The project, founded by Mark Donovan, received a $2 million investment from the Denver City Council in September and…
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Denver’s housing agency seeks budget hike to house 220 homeless individuals in hotels
Denver’s housing agency wants to quickly remove more than 220 homeless individuals from the streets by housing them in hotels, officials said during budget hearings this week. The department also wants to house 150 or more through another housing program. Officials from the Department of Housing Stability laid out their case for more funding on Tuesday, even…