Tag: denver homeless shelter
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Denver bought hotel to house homeless but 15 months later it hasn’t opened
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Denver officials celebrated the purchase of a 96-unit hotel last year with much hype, envisioning a homeless shelter that would offer an array of “supportive” services such as case management and therapy. The city described the former Stay Inn hotel as having recently undergone updates. Then-Mayor Michael Hancock said the city was proud to “transform” yet…
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Denver signals shift in homeless focus toward permanent housing, treatment
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Editor’s note: This is the third in a four-part series looking into Mayor Mike Johnston’s priorities for 2024. This installment focuses on the mayor’s goal of getting homeless people out of the city’s streets. A startling statistic emerged last year as Denver Mayor Mike Johnston pushed to reach his goal of moving a thousand homeless…
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911 data shows hundreds of calls from Denver’s 5 hotel-turned-shelters for homeless people
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On any given day, Doc Miller keeps an eye on his wife Judith watering the garden outside of their South Broadway Bed & Breakfast hotel, wondering when a homeless person would come and threaten her. Their bed and breakfast is the only hotel along the south Broadway corridor, a busy zone that draws shoppers and…
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Denver considers $2M grant to aid homeless mental health, drug abuse services
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The Denver City Council on Monday will consider a $2 million grant agreement which, if approved, would provide mental health and substance abuse services at temporary, non-congregate homeless shelter sites under the mayor’s housing initiative. The grant directly impacts Denver’s “House1000 Behavioral Health and Substance Misuse” program, which oversees hotel-turned-homeless shelters and “micro-communities” across the…
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Denver cuts operator’s security budget at hotel-turned homeless shelter following shootings, deaths
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As Denver struggles to keep a hotel-turned homeless shelter secure, the city decided to cut down the site operator’s security budget and provide its own security measures instead. The Salvation Army is under a $10 million contract with Denver to operate, oversee and secure the former DoubleTree hotel, located at 4040 N. Quebec St. in…
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Denver opening 2 emergency homeless shelters during snowstorm
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At the onset of Denver’s midweek snowstorm, the city is opening two emergency overnight shelters for homeless people needing somewhere to stay. Denver and the metro Denver area are under a winter storm watch starting 6 p.m., Wednesday, with the potential for 6-12 inches of snow to accumulate by Friday morning, according to the National…
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Denver to consider $115M purchase of Denver Post building, former hotel
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The Denver City Council on Monday will consider spending $115 million to complete two major city purchases. In January, the council approved spending $88.5 million to acquire the former Denver Post headquarters. Monday’s measure states that the city will not spend more than $90 million acquiring the property, which last sold for $93.4 million in 2006. …