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Housing Not Detention!: Housing Instability & Immigration Enforcement
Across the United States, communities are being torn apart by the collision of two destructive systems: aggressive immigration enforcement and the deepening housing crisis. While these issues are often treated separately, they are tightly intertwined. The expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), bolstered by bloated budgets and increasingly harsh policies, is creating a pipeline…
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Emails with CEO of Mental Health Colorado on Keeping SAFER Open
Email follow up from us with questions for CEO — Vincent Atchity, In our last email we asked for the following information: Your response was that SAFER operates on 200k a month, and that the building will be sold as soon as possible. While we appreciate some answers here, these answers still leave much to…
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Statements from SAFER Residents, Family, Friends, and Supporters on why SAFER must be kept open!
Statements from SAFER Residents, Family, Friends, and Supporters on why SAFER must be kept open! Name: Saptarshi BhattacharyyaConnection to SAFER: Resident Experience of the program: Excellent shelter transitional sober program. Has given me a safe space to get all my medical needs addressed, legal issues addressed, medications and therapy dialed in. Allowed me to rebuild relationships with…
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Survey Shows Constant Sweeps in Freezing Cold
Survey Shows Constant Sweeps in Freezing Cold In January and February of this year (2025) we surveyed 97 houseless people about sweeps as part of a regional survey we did in California, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, and Colorado with Western Regional Advocacy Project. The full findings of this regional survey can be found on WRAP’s site…
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Feedback from Cold Weather Shelter guests
5/19/25 Cold weather shelter forum Missing first few minutes of forum…
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No more TSA contracts for Best Western and Tamarac
Dear City Council, Last week we missed the fact that both Best Western (Stone Creek) and the Tamarac family shelter contracts with the Salvation Army are also up for renewal. Just as with Crossroads and Doubletree, we ask you to vote no and not keep the Salvation Army as the provider for these sites. In…
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Response to Mayor Johnston
Mayor Johnston, We wanted to respond to a couple things you said in our meeting June 3rd that we did not get a chance to respond to. When we asked what we should tell the countless houseless people we are speaking with (many of which former hotel shelter residents who have been kicked out and…
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Vigil for our houseless queer community: 1 year anniversary of BIPOC houseless trans person murdered by D.P.D.
On June 16th 2024, last Father’s Day, Denver Police were called to the intersection of Broadway and Lawrence St. about a person in the middle of the road yelling at passing cars “Hit me, Kill me!” Upon arriving they found a Houseless BIPOC Trans person in the middle of the intersection having a severe mental…
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City Council Vote on Salvation Army Shelter Contract TODAY Monday
City Council Vote on Salvation Army Shelter Contract TODAY Monday The City Council is set to vote on renewing the Salvation Army’s contract to run Crossroads shelter today (Monday), and then set to discuss renewing their contract to run the Doubletree on Wednesday. The Salvation Army has proven they cannot be trusted with operating shelters…
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No more TSA in Doubletree
Dear Safety, Housing, Education, and Homelessness Committee members, Again we are writing to you to ask for your no vote on a proposed contract renewal with the Salvation Army: this time to run the Doubletree (Aspen). The most serious horrors of the Doubletree are well known including… These are just the most well known atrocities…