Answers to Yes/No questions at Houseless At-Large Forum

Answers to Yes/No questions at Houseless At-Large Forum

On Monday us in Housekeys Action Network Denver together with Mutual Aid Monday hosted a form for At-Large City Council candidates. Nine of the ten candidates attended (Alfrado Reyes was sick) and shared answers to questions we asked about their approach to houselessness and to questions coming directly from houseless people.

The forum also included a series of Yes/No questions. Here below are their answers to these questions written out more easily quickly see. (Note Alfrado Reyes was not present due to sickness and Cynthia Diaz was not present due to being late because of child care responsibilities).

You can watch the full livestream of the forum and hear their answers the other questions here https://www.instagram.com/p/DesgtO0EVVy/

We will hold the candidate who wins accountable to what they said in this forum!

Remember to vote by November 3rd!

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• Do you believe that housing is a human right? All Yes
• When Sarah Parady was our at-large City Council representative, she was championing the effort to move forward social housing in Denver. As her predecessor, would you continue her fight? All Yes (Note Martinez said no to this at a different forum as well as Reyes who was not present at our forum)
• As a City Council representative, will you call for a stop to sweeps of houseless people? All Yes but Raymone Doane No
• Would you vote to end sweeps when it is under 32 degrees? All Yes
• If someone is staying outside in a tent and refuses to go to a shelter, should they face arrest? All No but Monica Martinez Yes
• As a City Council at-large representative, will you work to install public bathrooms and water access throughout the City? All Yes but Monica Martinez No
• Would you support the creation of a publicly funded queer run queer shelter and resource center in Denver? All Yes but Raymone Doane No
• Would you vote to increase cold weather shelter? All Yes
• Do you support the criminalization of fentanyl use? All No but Monica Martinez and Julissa Soto Yes
• Do you support using city funds to help pay for treatment programs when medicaid doesn’t cover it? All Yes but Raymone Doane No
• Do you support Supervised Injection sites (or better called “overdose prevention sites”)?  All Yes
• When it comes to Funding, most people ask the same question – “Where is the money going?” As our next City Council at-large representative,will you call for audits of all City departments and City funded non-profit organizations providing services to houseless people on a regular basis and publish those audits for the public to see? All Yes