Tag: Jeff Kositsky
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Denver City Council to revisit cold-weather shelter funding next week
Funding to pay for hotel rooms and ballrooms to accommodate overflow from the city’s emergency shelter beds during cold-weather activations will have to wait until next week. A resolution was delayed that would have added $450,000 to an existing contract between the city and U.S. Motels North, LLC, for short-term shelter when city-owned emergency shelter…
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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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Denver housing official was named in Urban Alchemy lobbying kerfuffle
Denver’s Department of Housing Stability has a unique connection with its biggest and newest homeless shelter provider, as well as some of its troubles. Jeff Kositsky, HOST’s deputy director of shelter and stability, was Urban Alchemy’s chief growth officer for two-and-a-half years, working on “national expansion, organizational development, financial management and fundraising,” according to his…