Tag: colorado safe parking initiative
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Colorado Springs ‘safe parking’ project nears launch as statewide organization prepares to close
After two years of trying to convince some churches in Colorado Springs to open their parking lots and use volunteer forces to undertake a simple concept that has successfully channeled homeless people back into stable housing in other Colorado cities, the first local “safe parking” project is making progress, according to organizers. Locations of the…
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Aurora council votes to fill homeless service provider funding gaps at quarterly workshop
While Aurora’s councilmembers held differing opinions on how to handle dollars for homeless service providers, they eventually agreed to allocate federal money to several organizations, bringing a few of them to flat funding. The councilmembers, however, entirely cut funding to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. Aurora’s policymaking body earlier delayed a decision on funding…





