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Denver homeless crisis worsens despite $274M investment; housing-first approach needed, critics say
Hridya Nair, right, hands out food items to the hungry while volunteering with Mutual Aid Monday on Monday, March 4, 2024. Tom Hellauer tom.hellauer@denvergazette.com Metro Denver’s homeless crisis has worsened and become among the most acute in the nation despite the city of Denver contracting for at least $274 million from 2021 through 2024 to…
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Finances may have improved at RMHS after negative 2015 audit
Just over a year after a Denver auditor’s report found a nonprofit provider of services to the mentally and developmentally disabled residents of the City and County of Denver had mismanaged city funds, the picture is much better, City Council members were recently told. Rocky Mountain Human Services, formerly called Denver Options, serves over 6,000…