Denver Is Getting Into the Motel Business...to Fight Homelessness

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Checking in: Denver could buy up to five motels to house the homeless.

approved accepting the HUD grant, sending the plan to the full council for a final vote later this month.

"We know more about the property, and this particular opportunity works best as supportive or long-term housing," Woodbury says."Ultimately, housing is the foundation for resolving homelessness." But the city's plans to purchase motels don't end with the Stay Inn. It's looking at buying four more buildings, likely to be hotels, using $43.25 million in federal COVID relief money. Two of these buildings will be turned into supportive housing, while the other two will become navigation centers where people leaving encampments can be placed temporarily and get connected with housing.

While the city works on deals for additional properties, the lease for a motel that had been housing homeless individuals during much of the pandemic lapsed in September. The City of Denver had been providing money to thecomplex at 2601 Zuni Street, which holds 174 rooms.

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Why not use the schools their shutting down

Buy the rock bar motel and burn it to the ground pls

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