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Residents and advocates tell Denver City Council more family shelter, oversight and services are needed
Summary
Multiple residents and organizers told the Denver City Council during public comment that family shelter capacity and services are insufficient, citing a waiting list of about 200 people, unsafe hotel placements and alleged discrimination at existing shelters; advocates asked for a city-led meeting to develop solutions.
Residents, immigrant advocates and shelter organizers used the council's public comment time to press Denver officials for more family shelter capacity, better oversight of temporary hotel placements and stronger supports for parents trying to work.
Anna Miller, a representative of House Keys Action Network Denver, told the council "there are children on the streets" and said the city is failing houseless families by relying on short-term hotel placements and contractors who, she said, have not managed shelter operations well. "Two hotel shelters that the Salvation Army ran failed miserably," Miller said, and she added that people on the connection-center waiting list "don't even answer the…
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