Staff at La Paz micro-community in Denver's Overland neighborhood say they're seeing homeless residents improve, but some neighbors are concerned.
Staff at La Paz micro-community in Denver's Overland neighborhood say they're seeing homeless residents improve, but some neighbors are concerned.
In April, Egozi found someone living in his shed, located behind his backyard fence, with blankets and pillows. Egozi says the stranger could have lived there for as long as a month. When he walks his dog at the park near the South Platte River, Egozi often sees people doing drugs"right at the entrance, not even hiding it."
"It objectively makes it harder to live there," Egozi says of La Paz."The problem is inherent in the concept: If you have a bunch of people living together, they're going to move around, and because of the people who live there, you have dangerous activity." , describes feelings in the neighborhood as"mixed" toward the micro-community.
"We look over the crime data, we look over the 311 data," she says."We make sure they're fully informed and then go over complaints and concerns. We keep a log of phone calls that we get, emails that we get. We find that transparency is important in building neighborhood trust." At least two La Paz residents have reconnected with their kids since moving in, according to CVC. Meanwhile, one resident has started medical treatment, two restored their veterans' benefits, and another earned their fork-lift certificate. Others have received job training, work clothes and bikes, and mobile clinics and libraries visit every week.
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