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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…
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Children Taken From Parents because they are Houseless
Children Taken From Parents because they are Houseless – The Next Level of Criminalization of Houselessness A family has been living in their vehicle making due the best they can while seeking housing and finding nothing. They go to free meals every day, park near portapotties, shower at friends houses, and do their very best…
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No More TSA Contract to run Crossroads
Dear Safety, Housing, Education, and Homelessness Committee, We are writing to you to ask for your no vote on the proposed contract renewal with the Salvation Army to run the Crossroads Shelter. Crossroads shelter residents have been telling us about deplorable conditions and operations by TSA for years. Our members who lived at Crossroads witnessed…
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Erasing Enforcement: Tactics of Criminalization
Erasing Enforcement: Tactics of Criminalization Tactics of Criminalization –
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Houseless Family with 7 Kids Needs Van for Home! Donate Today to Help!
Houseless Family with 7 Kids Needs Van for Home! Donate Today to Help! Rehema and 4 of her 7 kids, other kids asleep in the van Donate to Help! (HAND PayPal @HousekeysAction – note ‘for Rehema Family’ in the memo) Rehema, her partner and their 7 kids are living in a mini-van where they have…
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The Salvation Army Needs to GO! Protest April 8th!
The Salvation Army Sexually Assaults!!! TSA Needs to GO! Protest April 8th! End the Contracts! The Salvation Army (TSA) currently runs the majority of Denver shelters. This month, one of their staff members, with a known record of aggravated kidnapping and sexual assault convictions, sexually assaulted a resident at the Doubletree (Aspen) hotel shelter. This…
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Letter to Mayor from Houseless Families regarding Crisis of No Shelter
After HAND united numerous houseless families that then met with various representatives with the City of Denver – including City Council, the Department of Housing Stability, and the Denver shelter program – they found themselves still without solutions, without support, and instead, locked into a seemingly endless cycle of calls to a hotline that never…
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Follow up on ‘RV Dwellers Treated Un-worthy of Life’
Follow up on ‘RV Dwellers Treated Un-worthy of Life’ Back in December 2024 we made a post about a couple living in their RV who have been harassed by police non-stop for years and then suffered a hit and run leaving their RV and trailer seriously damaged with no real investigation and no insurance payment…
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DISABILITY ADVOCATES SUE DENVER for SYSTEMIC DISCRIMINATION & FAILURE TO PROVIDE ACCESSIBLE SHELTER & SERVICES TO DISABLED, HOUSELESS PEOPLE
DISABILITY ADVOCATES SUE DENVER, ALLEGE SYSTEMICDISCRIMINATION & FAILURE TO PROVIDE ACCESSIBLE SHELTER &SERVICES TO DISABLED, HOUSELESS PEOPLE Press Conference: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 12 PM MT, at Denver City & County Building 1437 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80202 DENVER, CO – Disability Law United, Newman | McNulty, LLC, and Brooklyn Law School’s Disability &…