Tag: Homeless
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Colorado church embraces housing homeless in RVs despite town’s resistance
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Mike Polhemus and his team at The Rock Church in Castle Rock say all they seek in return for providing shelter is to witness those they help achieve a healthier, more sustainable life beyond homelessness. After a recent settlement with Castle Rock over land use laws,…
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Disability group sues Denver over homeless shelter accessibility
A coalition of disabled homeless people has filed a lawsuit against Denver over accessibility issues with several of the city’s shelters. Housekeys Action Network Denver and six individuals filed the civil rights lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Feb. 25. The lawsuit alleges that over the past several years, the plaintiffs and numerous other disabled…
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Denver police sergeant to face civil trial over alleged First Amendment retaliation, judge rules
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge ruled last month that a jury will evaluate whether a Denver police officer violated a man’s First Amendment rights by knocking his cell phone onto the ground in retaliation for video recording. Brian Loma was recording the city’s operation to dismantle a…
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How we exposed Denver’s homeless industrial complex | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In an era when information, misinformation, disinformation, AI-created information, and down-right lies all gets tossed together in the same Mixmaster known as the internet, we journalists believe it’s important for us to occasionally show our work. To let you know who our sources were, what…
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Life on the streets: Homeless woman’s struggle with addiction in Denver’s encampments
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Crystal Munn sat in a diner on Colfax Avenue eating breakfast for dinner one evening in late March, devouring her eggs, taking the pancakes with her in a to-go box for later. She is jittery, less focused than even a few weeks before. She admitted…
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Living in a truck, family with two young sons faces struggle of Denver’s streets
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Scarlett Gauvin was scrolling through her phone recently and happened upon a video her 7-year-old son, Jasper, had secretly made. Sometimes she gave him her phone to play games. But she had no idea he had used it to make the shaky, few seconds of video…
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Denver police deploy ‘covert assets’ at hotel-turned-homeless shelter after recent deaths
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Struggling to secure a hotel-turned-homeless shelter, the Denver police have decided to deploy “covert assets” to the building that has been the setting of seven deaths since January, not counting the shooting of a woman on Wednesday. That shooting occurred despite an increase in security measures…
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Public health departments bring vaccine clinics to homeless shelters amid small meningitis outbreak
In the past month, a small outbreak of meningococcal meningitis — which infects the lining of the brain and spinal cord — has been seen in Denver County’s homeless community. That prompted health departments to bring pop-up vaccine clinics to shelters in Aurora. Meningococcal meningitis can cause severe symptoms, including fever, vomiting and confusion, and…
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Report shows 30,000 in metro Denver accessed homeless services in 2023 | ANALYSIS
A new, wide-ranging report painted a complicated, incessant and sorrowful picture of homelessness in metro Denver, a crisis that has soared in recent years and which is costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year. The report suggested that tens of thousands more homeless people resided in metro Denver than an annual count showed…
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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…