Tag: denver

Denver to Provide Cash Assistance to Help Lift Individuals Out of Homelessness

City Council approves $2 million contract with the Denver Basic Income Project Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2022 To help ensure that episodes of homelessness are rare, brief and one-time occurrences, the City and County of Denver will soon provide cash assistance to more than 140 individuals experiencing homelessness. City Council today approved a contract to provide […]

Denver Housing Authority Announces 2022 Priorities Including Building Thousands of New Housing Options in Denver

To support its growth and ensure equity, DHA launches new brand look and feel website Denver, Colo., January 26, 2022 – Denver Housing Authority (DHA) announced its 2022 priorities which include delivering thousands of new housing options in the city. Efforts include continuing towards adding 1,300 units through the DHA Delivers for Denver (D3) housing initiative; continuing efforts […]

The Long Way Home: How DHA Empowers Low- Income Denverites to Purchase Homes

Renee Vasquez had a hard time imagining what it would be like to leave Westwood Homes, the West Denver public housing complex, where she had lived for many years. When she moved in with her baby daughter in 2008, she was a single mom and insecurely housed, bouncing from her aunt’s to friends’ to a […]

Brandon Courtyard Apartments

Brandon Courtyard Apartments Homeless1555 N Xavier Street, Denver, CO 80204For more details, click below:https://www.va.gov/homeless/hud-vash.asp

Denver Johnson & Wales campus already transforming under new owners

By JOE RUBINO | jrubino@denverpost.com | The Denver PostNovember 30, 2021 25-acre former college in South Park Hill hosting culinary programs, K-8 school, affordable housing up next Five months after Denver Public Schools, the Denver Housing Authority and nonprofit Urban Land Conservancy teamed to buy the 25-acre Johnson & Wales University property in northeast Denver, change is starting. A pair of […]

More Affordable Housing In Denver Is Coming For Single-Parent Families

By Tori Mason November 18, 2021 at 10:00 pm DENVER (CBS4) – Residential services for single parents seeking safe and affordable housing are expanding in Denver. Over the last 45 years, Warren Village has helped more than 8,200 children and parents. Their partnership with Denver Housing Authority will help support hundreds more through a new facility. “Just […]

Denver Housing Authority planning another complex in Lincoln Park

Eric Heinz November 11, 2021 If rezoning is approved, 40 percent of the units on the 901 S. Navajo lot would be restricted to those making up to 30 percent of the area median income.

One of Denver’s poorest, most diverse neighborhoods was a food desert. Until now.

Jennifer Brown4:02 AM MDT on Nov 3, 2021 Residents of Sun Valley have had to travel miles by car or bus to get to a real grocery store. Then came Decatur Fresh Market, a government-subsidized store full of fresh produce and international spices. When Selena Ramirez was growing up, shopping for groceries was an hours-long […]

A New Grocery Store Aims to Address Food Access Issues in Sun Valley

The project, Decatur Fresh, opens November 2 on the ground floor of Denver Housing Authority’s Gateway South building. BY MEREDITH SELLOctober 29, 2021 Food access—or rather, inaccess—is a longstanding problem in Sun Valley. The new home to Meow Wolf Denver has been described as both a food desert and food swamp, similar ideas that refer to, respectively, lack […]

HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge tours new public housing complex in Denver

By PAT POBLETE pat.poblete@coloradopolitics.comJul 13, 2021 Updated Jul 20, 2021 Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge during a Tuesday stop in Denver warned the affordable housing crisis is “bigger than people want to admit” but praised efforts to revamp public housing in Colorado. After touring a public housing complex currently under construction in Denver’s Sun Valley neighborhood […]