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Denver considers $2M state grant to assist housing homeless
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Denver Metro, denvergazette.com

Denver considers $2M state grant to assist housing homeless

By Noah Festenstein | Denver Gazette 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 funds from Colorado’s “Transformational Homelessness Response” grant program until Sept. 30, 2026. The program aims to provide services including mental health treatment as well as temporary and permanent housing opportunities. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Denver’s regional affairs director, former Fox31 reporter to discuss migrants, homeless
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Denver Metro, Rocky Mountain Voice

Denver’s regional affairs director, former Fox31 reporter to discuss migrants, homeless

By Brian Porter | The Rocky Mountain Voice The impact of migrants and the homeless on communities in Colorado will be discussed Thursday, March 28, with Foothill Republicans. Adam Paul, the director of regional affairs for the City of Denver, and D.J. Summers, Common Sense Institute's director of policy and research, will head up discussion on the subject. Paul's LinkedIn account indicates he entered public service shortly after founding his Corporate Car transportation business in 2001, being elected to the Green Mountain Water Board and in 2007 to the Lakewood City Council. He recently completed his final term as mayor of Lakewood. Lakewood became an All-America City during his time as mayor. Summers was a reporter at Fox 31 Denver and in Wyoming before joining Common Sense I...
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Boulder’s largest homeless shelter hit maximum capacity during winter storm
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Boulder Reporting Lab, Local

Boulder’s largest homeless shelter hit maximum capacity during winter storm

By John Herrick | Boulder Reporting Lab The Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, the city’s largest shelter in North Boulder, reached full capacity during Thursday night’s snowstorm. As a result, four people were turned away due to lack of capacity, a shelter official told Boulder Reporting Lab.  The shelter expanded its capacity to sleep 180 people during last week’s storm, which dumped about 18 inches of snow on parts of the City of Boulder, according to the National Weather Service. During such weather events, the shelter’s protocol is to increase its capacity to 180 from 160 people and remain open during the day to people who slept there the prior night. The shelter is typically closed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., though a new day services center is expected to open th...
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What does ‘Do Better Denver’ say about all of us, and the media?
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Commentary, Denver Metro, Rocky Mountain Voice, State

What does ‘Do Better Denver’ say about all of us, and the media?

By Cory Gaines | Guest Columnist I was recently introduced to a Twitter account called “Do Better Denver,” after reading about it in a Westword article. If you are like me and don't live in Denver (or on Twitter), you may not be aware of who they are, but it's not hard to describe. It's a social media account that posts unflinching pictures of homeless people around Denver along with sharing some items that would fall more comfortably into the category of news, e.g. sharing the amount Denver has spent on public safety this year. I think that reasonable arguments could be made either way about the value of pictures of homeless people and encampments in bringing to light the issue and/or in trying to fix it. I will leave it to you to come to your own conclusions there. I'm not going...
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Colorado Springs cracks down on homeless camping in hopes of pushing people toward shelter, services
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El Paso County, Local, The Colorado Sun

Colorado Springs cracks down on homeless camping in hopes of pushing people toward shelter, services

By Jennifer Brown and Hugh Carey | Colorado Sun Jeremy Krause has a simple code for making it on the streets of Colorado Springs: “Stay dry and avoid the cops.”  To keep warm, he burns hand sanitizer and rubbing alcohol. To steer clear of the police, he and his dog move often.  But avoiding them is not working as well anymore.  “It wasn’t so bad in the beginning, but the last two years they’ve been really irrational,” said Krause, who has been homeless for about eight years. “They’ve stolen my things like six times. They take your tent, your blankets, your heat, everything you need to survive. That’s to force us into the shelter.” READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Denver Coliseum to act as 24/7 severe weather shelter through Feb. 16
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DENVER7, Downtown Denver, Local

Denver Coliseum to act as 24/7 severe weather shelter through Feb. 16

By Claire Lavezzorio | Denver7 DENVER — The City of Denver opened the Denver Coliseum as a 24/7 severe weather shelter Friday afternoon, allowing those experiencing homelessness to escape the cold and snow for an extended period of time. The Coliseum, located at 4600 N Humboldt Street, will remain open until 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 16. People in need can go directly to the Coliseum. The city said this shelter is best suited for individuals, not families. READ THE FULL STORY AT DENVER7
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Homeless kids on rural Eastern Plains have few resources, no shelters
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Eastern Plains, Local, The Sentinel

Homeless kids on rural Eastern Plains have few resources, no shelters

By Rae Solomon and KUNC | Aurora Sentinel On a broad commercial drag in rural Fort Morgan, Colo., there’s an aging roadside motel with a yellowed sign out front advertising vacancies at daily and weekly rates. But it’s no longer a functioning motel in the traditional sense, so much as a pay-as-you-go refuge for locals who have nowhere else to call home. Marygrace Lankhorst and her husband, Lonnie Walker, are among the residents. By the time a major cold snap hit the region in mid-January, they’d been living at the motel for about two and a half months. Their room was small and crammed full of possessions – suitcases, boxes of food, bags of clothing and various treasures rescued from the alleyways of Fort Morgan. A microwave next to the TV served as the kitchen. READ THE FULL ST...
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Camping ban in Pueblo aims to clean community, put homeless in shelters
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Local, Rocky Mountain Voice, Southern Colorado

Camping ban in Pueblo aims to clean community, put homeless in shelters

'I see it as compassionate that I care enough about my human neighbors that I’m not going to allow them to lay out in the wilderness like a bunch of wild animals' – President Mark Aliff A parade of three doctors, activists, non-profit personnel, pastors and previously homeless residents approached Pueblo’s City Council for the better part of two hours Monday seeking their opposition to a ban on unauthorized camping on public property. “It’s rare we get an ordinance with residents lining out the door to speak,” said City Councilwoman Sarah Martinez, who opposed the ban. At issue is a homeless population creating concerns which some say has grown out of control – from drug refuse and human waste, to fires and fear of drownings, to one member hearing gunshots during the night. Cit...
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Denver City Council fails to override mayor’s veto of bill preventing homeless sweeps in freezing weather
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DENVER7, Downtown Denver, Local

Denver City Council fails to override mayor’s veto of bill preventing homeless sweeps in freezing weather

By Sydney Isenberg , Landon Haaf | Denver7 With a 7-6 vote, the Denver City Council on Monday failed to override Mayor Mike Johnston's veto of an ordinance that would have banned homeless encampment sweeps when temperatures dip below freezing. City Council Ordinance 23-1960, introduced in December, aimed to revise the municipal code to prevent multiple city agencies from removing homeless encampments when temperatures 32 degrees and colder are in the forecast. It passed by a 7-6 margin on Jan. 29.. Nine votes were needed to protect the bill from mayoral veto. The mayor and several citizen groups had voiced their opposition to the ordinance. Johnston officially vetoed the ordinance on Feb. 2. In a letter to the council announcing...
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Aurora council votes to fill homeless service provider funding gaps at quarterly workshop
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Denver Metro, denvergazette.com, Local

Aurora council votes to fill homeless service provider funding gaps at quarterly workshop

By Kyla Pearce | The Gazette 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 homeless service providers. The debate about city funding for homeless service providers has been going on since city staffers recommended last year that the council cut or limit funds to several organizations that provide services to homeless people in Aurora following a dip in the local government's revenues. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE GAZETTE
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