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To take the Assessment of Fair Housing survey is to be forced to think about inequality and where you fall on the spectrum of limited opportunities.

So you’ve been priced out of Denver: A couple in the arts tells their story
"We left, which is sad because I made Denver my home and was planning on making Colorado my home for a lifetime, and that just became an impossibility."

Denver program finds homeless people with jail time — and then houses them
They are subjects in an $8.7 million experiment -- the Denver Social Impact Bond Program - that may be the first of its scale in the United States.
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How you can comment on Denver’s comprehensive housing plan
Denver is holding three public meetings, starting this week, to collect feedback on its draft comprehensive housing plan.

Denver’s plan: Help 30,000 households find or keep housing in the next five years
Denver has released the comprehensive housing plan that will guide its investments and programs for the next five years and seek to turn the tide of what officials are deeming a housing crisis.


Why All in Denver wants the city to borrow money for affordable housing — and why some officials are hesitant
Members of the advocacy group All in Denver want a housing bond to be included in the comprehensive housing plan the city is on the verge of finalizing.

Denver council president says city needs $100 million more for affordable housing
Some Denver City Council members are showing an appetite for more spending on affordable housing -- and using debt to do it.

Denver considers creating a citywide land trust to keep homes affordable
In a community land trust, a community group or government entity buys up land in areas where prices are expected to increase.

Vision for First Avenue Hotel along South Broadway starts to come to fruition
Altogether, the historic building and a new addition could bring more than 100 apartments to the corner near Punch Bowl Social.

Two new Denver homeless shelters set to open in Northeast Park Hill
The two new shelters will collectively have room for several hundred people. They'll serve as a replacement for a current "overflow" shelter further east.

Creeps, scammers and despair: Who preys on the cheaper side of Denver’s housing market
"Nursing student seeks room,” she wrote in her Craigslist ad. She didn't know she would be opening the flood gates to predators and scammers.



After six hours of debate, Jefferson County leaders accept money for affordable housing, other programs
This type of decision usually is a simple one, but this year it became a debate about whether enforcement of fair housing laws endangers the suburbs.

Denver’s new idea for homelessness commission: include more homeless people
Denver's 45-person homelessness commission will dissolve and reconvene later this summer as a smaller but more representative group.

Marijuana isn’t attracting homeless people to Denver or Colorado, according to “best data we have”
He said it's an area that needs more research to have a definitive answer, but all the evidence to date is that it's not happening.

Housing advocates say the public agrees with them: It’s the city’s job to fix affordable housing
More protections for renters now. More money for housing soon. Community groups are gearing up for a new push on housing issues in Denver.


Leader of Denver’s new office of HOPE on city’s housing crisis: “We know there are limited resources and limited patience”
The idea is that this office will help turn the city's many plans around housing, homelessness and economic development into coordinated action.