Tag: denver homeless
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Denver considers $1 million contract for homeless mental health services
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The Denver City Council on Monday will consider a $1 million contract with the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless to provide more behavioral health service staffing at its multiple permanent supportive housing sites. This is the council’s first contract since January involving Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, one of metro Denver’s largest nonprofits serving homeless…
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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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Denver sweeps homeless encampment but offers no shelter this time
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Alexandra Holt said she woke up on Tuesday morning to the police asking her to clean up her tent and leave the 8th Avenue and Navajo Street homeless encampment, where she had been living for a month. “We thought we were going to wake up to housing,” she said. That wasn’t the case on Tuesday.…
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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 considers $2M state grant to assist housing homeless
The Denver City Council on Monday will consider accepting a $2 million state grant to provide homeless people with essential services that include transitioning from temporary shelters into permanent housing. Denver’s housing department plans to use the money for rapid rehousing efforts throughout the city over the next two years. If approved, Denver will receive…
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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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‘Mutual Aid Monday’ serves ‘symbolic’ protest in front of Denver city hall amid homelessness, immigration crises
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Denver volunteer group sees increased hungry, needy populationsTom Hellauer tom.hellauer@denvergazettedev.gazette.comTomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazettedev.gazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g As the City Council comes together for its weekly 3:30 p.m. Monday meeting, another weekly gathering transpires right outside of the doors of the City and County of Denver building. No matter the weather, “Mutual Aid Monday” volunteers show up every week to serve food…
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Denver’s homeless people offered voting resources as election season heats up
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Denver offered the city’s homeless population voting resources in the weeks leading up to Super Tuesday, according to election officials. The Denver Clerk and Recorder’s Office said it offered election information, setting up a resource table during this week’s “Mutual Aid Monday” homeless resource drive outside of the city building. As homeless people stocked up…
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Colorado housing agencies receive nearly $600,000 to help curb veteran homelessness
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Curbing veteran homelessness in Colorado made headway this week as multiple state housing agencies received almost $600,000 in the form of permanent housing vouchers. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, under its “HUD-VASH” housing voucher program, awarded 66 housing agencies across the nation a total…
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Denver dismisses ban barring homeless camp sweeps in cold weather
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The Denver City Council on Monday failed to override Mayor Mike Johnston’s veto of a bill intended to ban moving homeless people off the streets in frigid temperatures. The ordinance would have prevented the city from moving homeless people -or sweeping encampments – from outdoor living situations in temperatures below 32 degrees. The council approved…