Using $2 million in federal COVID-19 relief money, Denver will partner with program-runner Impact Charitable to provide 140 homeless individuals and households with payments over a 12-month period.
to provide 140 homeless individuals and households with payments over a 12-month period. Participants will be split into study groups. One group will receive $6,500 upfront and $500 a month for 11 months after that. Another group will receive $1,000 per month for a year, according to a presentation delivered by the city’s housing department last month.
Denver is not the only participant in the pilot program. Impact Charitable will be working with 820 individuals and families through the basic income project. Additional funding is coming from private donors, foundations and corporations, according to Biess. In addition to the two main payment formats, there will also be a control group included in the pilot program. Those people will receive just $50 a month for 12 months. Denver’s portion of the program will provide the funding for 90 people and families in that control segment., the program will assess the different groups for how the payments impact their housing stability, employment situation, psychological health and more.
“I think it’s really, really important,” District 5 Councilwoman Amanda Sawyer said last month of the assessment piece of the program. The research work will stretch into the middle of 2024.The program has strict eligibility requirements. Applicants must be working with a service provider like the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless oroperator the Colorado Village Collaborative. They cannot have any unaddressed mental health or substance use needs.
The Denver portion of the pilot program is also reserved exclusively for women, families and people who are gender nonconforming or nonbinary. Those groups have been identified as especially vulnerable to the economic impacts of COVID-19, city officials say.
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