Tag: Colorado Department Of Local Affairs
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Denver City Council allocates $2.85 million to aid homeless and immigrants
The Denver City Council on Monday unanimously approved three measures officials say will help homeless people and immigrants throughout the city, totaling $2.85 million. The first item was a $2 million resolution approved as a grant from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs. The grant, part of the statewide Transformational Homelessness Response, will help connect…
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How the town of Carbondale, Colorado scrambled after hundreds of immigrants arrived at its doorstep
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save No one seems to know exactly how a remote mountain town like Carbondale, Colorado, became the destination for upwards of 150 mostly Venezuelan immigrants in search of the American dream. The “newcomers,” as they’re called in the Aspen bedroom community, originally arrived in Denver aboard…
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Denver gives out 1,000-plus emergency backpacks
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver’s emergency office held its second-annual DenverREADY Preparedness Fair on Saturday at the Montbello Recreation Center, an exercise aimed at helping local communities prepare amidst the backdrop of increasing frequency of natural disasters. Natural disasters in Colorado have jumped up over 275% over the last 20 years. There…
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New fire station breaks ground in Boulder County
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Boulder Mountain Fire Protection District broke ground Saturday on a $3.6 million project to replace the nearly 60-year-old Station 2 and improve the department’s wildfire and emergency response. More than a dozen officials gathered at…
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Coloradans requested $42M in housing assistance in January — more than all of 2020
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The dollar amount of requests for assistance to prevent evictions and foreclosures in January 2021 eclipsed the total for requests in all of 2020, according to the Colorado Department of Local Affairs. The $42 million…
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Colorado small businesses getting over $35 million in COVID-19 assistance
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Senate bill passed during this month’s special legislative session will allocate over $35 million to the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) to be distributed to small businesses across the state. The state has limited the types of businesses eligible to receive the funds…