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Denver houses nearly 600 people in 100 days
Denver recently housed nearly 600 people during a 100-day housing initiative, but fell short of its goal of getting 400 households experiencing homelessness a place to live. The initiative began in February and aimed to house 400 households through housing vouchers. At the end of the 100 days, 597 people from 359 households were housed…
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HUD chief Ben Carson tours Aurora complex, touts partnerships to ease housing crisis
After meeting with an older couple who sang the praises of their new, affordable rental unit, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson surveyed the view from the fourth-floor deck of the Aurora apartment complex – Pikes Peak barely visible through a slight haze that clung to the foothills – and then paused for…
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Feds reject plans for Lakewood homeless campus
An advocacy group’s plans for a sprawling Lakewood facility to help house those experiencing homelessness took a blow late last week. Details are sparse, but the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rejected the plans after reportedly finding issues with advocacy group Colorado Coalition for the Homeless’ (CCH) financing proposal, Westword reports. The…
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Lakewood councilman: Fed center site a poor choice for homeless campus
It’s been the resounding message from city officials and vocal residents in Lakewood: A 59-acre site near the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood is a poor choice for a large-scale homeless facility. The sentiment is also the upshot of a new guest commentary from Lakewood City Councilman Charley Able appearing in the Denver Post on…
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HUD’s Ben Carson drops in on Colorado’s homeless coalition
We took note the other day of U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson’s two-day stopover in Denver this week to address a meeting of mortgage bankers and, per the protocols of his job, to tour publicly assisted housing in the area. Included was a visit to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless,…
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HUD Secretary (and conservative icon) Ben Carson tours Denver
Given his 2016 presidential bid, which garnered plenty of attention before it fizzled early last year – to say nothing of his longtime renown as a pioneering neurosurgeon and his more recent emergence as a conservative headliner – Dr. Ben Carson’s current tenure as U.S. secretary of housing and urban development seems rather anticlimactic. But…
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Lakewood site turns out to be suitable for homeless housing after all, feds say
A homeless advocacy coalition took it to the federal government and won. But, it may be more of a lesson in government accountability than David versus Goliath. The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless won a court battle late last month after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) finally declared a 59-acre Lakewood…
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Facing a court order, feds will reconsider whether Lakewood land can serve the homeless
Whatever the best use might be for some surplus land the government is hoping to auction off at the Federal Center in Lakewood, you’ve got to give due credit to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless for its dogged pursuit of the 59-acre parcel. And it looks like the nonprofit might prevail in its quest.…