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New [Homeless] Micro-Community Opens in Denver, at Least One More on the Way
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Mar 12, 2024 11:06am |
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| News Date | Monday, March 11, 2024 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In August, Mayor Mike Johnston envisioned ten micro-communities — groupings of several dozen shed-sized homes — opening in Denver to help with his House1000 plan to take 1,000 homeless residents off the streets by the end of the year.
Johnston declared victory in his House1000 goal in December, but that victory was thanks to hotel partnerships, not micro-communities.
Earlier this year, the mayor's office changed the name of House1000 to the All In Mile High initiative, which aims to have 2,000 total homeless residents off the streets by the end of 2024. And micro-communities are again part of the plan.
Last year, Johnston only managed to open one micro-community, a 54-unit site at 12033 East 38th Avenue in Central Park, which opened on the last day of 2023. That site is run by Bayaud Enterprises, a Colorado nonprofit, and is still hosting 54 homeless residents who were swept from Denver encampments. It's also in front of a 96-unit motel the city bought in late 2022 for $9 million as part of the House1000 plan. |
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