Denver Migrants Enjoying Life Outside Shelters With Street Barbecues, Community Bonding
Venezuelan migrants camping near Speer Boulevard and Zuni Street have formed a community, bonding over food and where they send their kids to school.
Venezuelan migrants camping near Speer Boulevard and Zuni Street have formed a community, bonding over food and where they send their kids to school.
Denver has been looking to longtime city liaison Steve Charbonneau to negotiate agreements between residents and homeless micro-community providers.
The HOP mobile clinic will provide health-care services as part of Mayor Mike Johnston’s House1000 program.
Mayor Mike Johnston has been asking city department officials to send him their best and brightest for one last “Hail Mary” at his House1000 initiative.
The mayor’s senior homelessness advisor spoke to Westword about the decision to delay a contract with his former employer, Colorado Village Collaborative.
Denver’s “Highland Mafia” is doing all it can to help migrants in need – something the city should be doing more of, the group says.
Maria Casillas’s decision to go back to Mexico for a U.S. citizenship interview has cost the Denver grandmother a year with her family.
Residents and former staffers at Colorado Village Collaborative sites in Denver say the city’s new micro-community manager is “awful” and “disorganized.”
Mayor Johnston has enlisted the help of Housing Connector, a nonprofit, to find permanent living spaces for Denver’s homeless and meet his House1000 goal.
Asphalt has come out at the 1375 Elati Street micro-community site, leaving people to wonder just how “temporary” the homeless communities really are.
The Krisana Group, a real-estate developer based in Centennial, has pulled out of its contract to turn 1380 South Birch Street into a micro-community.
The city conducted a homeless sweep in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood that put dozens into housing, while simply sending others down the street.
There’s a lot people don’t know (or have forgotten) about Colorado’s third largest city.
“There are a lot of genetics being lost every time a male elephant passes away and hasn’t had his samples taken from him.”
People living in Denver’s Holly Hills area are happy Mayor Mike Johnston nixed plans for an incoming micro-community, but their fight is not yet over.
A late change in who qualifies for universal pre-K in Colorado will cost the Aurora Public Schools district $1 million to keep kids enrolled in preschool.
Meet three refugees who help make Aurora the most diverse city in Colorado.
The Harm Reduction Action Center leads a weekly cleanup around Capitol Hill and the Golden Triangle using homeless residents they’ve provided services to.
The City of Denver is keeping quiet on when the second House1000 sweep will happen and where the homeless will go, citing “privacy and safety” concerns.
The city has broken ground on four of Mayor Johnston’s micro-communities, which are central to his House1000 plan to shelter 1,000 homeless people by 2024.
The 2023 Colorado Project report concluded that “housing is the number one resource needed by partnerships working to end human trafficking.”
“The urgency with which you’ve tackled this problem is extraordinary, and we’re behind you in this. Denver gives me hope right now.”