Housekeys Action Network Denver

Watch these interviews and read the translations to hear families please for humanity firsthand… THANK YOU to volunteer Verena O’Malley for reaching out and offering such timely translation!!! Video 1: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzHE0QFrBf6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Translation — ENGLISHThis is V with HAND. I am about to do an interview with a family that was just kicked out from the migrant…

It’s Now This Bad… Denver Pushes Babies into Tents This Winter Today, mutual aid groups in Denver that usually work to support the already deeply in-need unhoused community are finding ourselves asking to collect items for infants as young as 20 days old… A new all-time low for Denver. Are we meant to wait around…

48th Street Shelter has Kicked Multiple Houseless Women to the Streets for Petty and Corrupt Things –  Women are made Vulnerable for trying to Speak Up about it!!! Last month, on September 22nd, roughly 35 women were kicked out of the 48th street shelter for such ridiculous, corrupt and petty reasons as having their bed…

Call on the City Council to Vote for a Budget for the People, not the Police! The City Council will be voting on amendments to the Mayor’s proposed City budget these coming weeks. Before that they need to hear from the people the outcry to move money from police and jails and shitty shelter systems,…

Update on our Meeting with the Mayor and “House” 1000 Demands  In our letter to the Mayor, shared publicly, we demanded a meeting with the Mayor this week before the City Council vote on renewing the State of Emergency.  The Mayor did meet with us on Thursday.  We went over the specific minimal demands we…

October 7, 2023 Dear Mayor Mike Johnston,  When you first declared the Houseless State of Emergency we were cautiously hopeful that this would lead to some relief from constant traumatic displacements, some resources for houseless people living on our streets, and that it would lead to real housing for houseless people most in need. Instead…

August 30, 2023 Re: Houseless State of Emergency Dear Mayor Johnston, We are glad for your goal to house 1000 houseless Denverites by the end of the year, and appreciate your serious focus on this issue, as evidenced when you declared houselessness in Denver to be a State of Emergency in the early days of…

Statement Regarding the Unprecedented Sweep Reasoning of August 24th On August 21st, a random masked man decided to shoot someone walking by an encampment between 17th and 18th on Logan St. This led to two residents personally falling victim to stray bullets, as well as another individual receiving up to $7k in damage to his…

Boundaries and Barriers: Denver’s Policy to Force Visible Poverty from Public View  A Research Report by the Homelessness Policy Project of Denver University  Exclusionary land use policies have taken many forms in the state of Colorado, dating back to its colonization.  To answer the question of who has the right to use public space, this…

Mayor Johnston Plans to Sweep Encampment with less than 24 hours Notice!@$# After promising in writing to sweep camps as rarely as possible until housing is ready to move into, and with 7 days notice, Mayor Johnston is now planning to sweep the camp on 18th and Logan – with about 50-60 houseless residents –…