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Denver’s medical examiner seeks help identifying a man who may have died in homelessness

Jane Harrington, executive director of the Colorado Community Land Trust, hugs GES Coalition member Raymunda Carreon after Denver City Council approved a zoning exception for an ADU at an Elyria Swansea home, Jan. 7, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

A rarity: This stressed Denver community has been advocating for more below-market housing in their neighborhoods

Elyria, along with the neighboring communities of Globeville and Swansea, comprise a corner of Denver embattled by change all around.

The Beloved Community Tiny Home Village, Oct. 29, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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New home proposed for tiny homes

Public Works said in November that the plot at the Taxi development where Beloved Community Village had hoped to move was inappropriate.

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Mayor Michael B. Hancock in background with Place Bridge Academy students (from left to right) Grace Yose, Emmy Ramos, Salma Yusuf, Ro Win Na and Irina Vorobey at a Denver Human Services news conference. Place Bridge is one of three Denver Public Schools where DHS social workers are based.

Denver will offer English and citizenship classes and other support for immigrants and refugees

The initiative brings a library program to the Richard T. Castro Human Services Center.

Apartments dear the University of Denver. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Denver’s rental assistance program has been extended

The new contracts totaling $2 million bring the city’s total spending on TRUA to nearly $4 million.

Many, many new homes in Commerce City, Nov. 9, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Commerce City offers home repair help to low- to moderate-income residents

The Denver suburb said it had set aside more than $350,000 for the program.

Megan Vizina, executive director of ACCESS Housing, conducts a Point-in-Time survey with a woman in a tent along Sand Creek. The woman was too cold to come out of her tent. (Donna Bryson/Denverite)

Scores of enumerators canvass metro Denver for the annual Point-in-Time survey

Cities and towns across the country that want federal money to help people experiencing homelessness are required by HUD to count everyone in shelters and transitional housing each year at the end of January.

Kuhl Brown, regional director of real estate development for Mercy Housing, with Jennifer Thibault, Mercy's regional vice president for operations. Mercy, one of the largest nonprofit developers and managers of affordable housing in the country, recently hired Brown to build more in its backyard – the Denver area.

With Denver housing troubles at ‘crisis level,’ national nonprofit developer Mercy Housing puts focus on its own backyard

Denver's crisis has drawn new players and funding sources to affordable housing.

Books and food on the shelves at Counterpath, a publisher and exhibition space where the East Colfax Neighborhood Association has set up a food pantry. (Donna Bryson/Denverite)

Feeding mind, body and soul in East Colfax

Neighborhood association establishes food pantry at offices of small press.

Arapahoe Libraries Executive Director Oliver Sanidas on the screen of a Facebook Portal in the Interaction Lab, an exhibition at the Southglenn branch on strategies to make homes comfortable and accessible for all ages and abilities. (Donna Bryson/Denverite)

Hands-on ‘Interaction Lab’ at Southglenn Library offers strategies for aging in place

Arapahoe Libraries had the space and a knack for displaying cool technology. The city of Centennial had the research on community issues.

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