Mayor Mike Johnston has just two months to find housing for 830 people if he is to keep his promise to move 1,000 of Denver’s homeless off the streets by the end of the year. Here’s how…
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, second from left, walks to a press conference in the City and County Building about the updated financial plan for his initiative to bring 1,000 people experiencing homelessness indoors on Sept. 12, 2023. “We feel a real sense of momentum and we do believe that it’s possible,” he said. “We think the pieces are in place to be able to help get 1,000 Denverites off the streets and we know a lot of these units will come on in November and December.
“There’s tons of kids in the neighborhood, tons of families, there’s older women in the neighborhood whose husbands have passed away years ago,” Virginia Village resident Georgia Kristan said of her opposition to a proposed micro-community of 30 to 40 housing units at 1380 S. Birch St. “I do not think it is a good location.”
Specifically, members of the grassroots group Housekeys Action Network Denver have blasted the mayor for still allowing encampment sweeps to happen without housing options available and for calling his initiative House1000 when people are in fact being offered temporary shelter space whether it be in a hotel or tiny home. Members of that group have railed against the Salvation Army for running shelters with strict rules they liken to halfway houses. Rules include banning on-site drug use.
One of the advocates’ demands is that Johnston prioritize leased housing where people can have more autonomy.is also underway. The administration publicly confirmed the location of the first site earlier this month, a Colorado Department of Transportation-owned patch of land at 2301 S. Santa Fe Drive in Overland. The ground there is being prepared to host enough tiny homes, bathrooms and other support structures to host 120 people by year’s end, officials say..
Cecilia Montielh gets emotional as she looks at her hotel room where she will be able to stay for 90 days on Sept. 25, 2023, in Denver. Montielh was living at an encampment in Capitol Hill at North Logan Street and East Eighth Avenue. But the intensive use of city staff time and other resources, the speed at which things are happening and, at times, the lack of clarity around the initiative has drawn criticism from inside and outside city hall.
Finally, Councilwoman Stacie Gilmore cast a no vote this month after Cole Chandler, the mayor’s top homelessness adviser, told her the administration was still working to prepare a detailed spending plan for the initiative.
“I think that the larger part of the conversation here is we have to make sure the entire city is carrying the solutions to housing, and not just one district,” Lewis said.
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