Having led HOST and now head of CCH, Britta Fisher is a natural bridge between the city and the nonprofit that Denver has relied on heavily to help with housing and services for the homeless population.
last summer, she was chosen to take the place of her former boss; she first worked for CCH from 2004 to 2006 as an advocacy and housing program manager, which she says makes her a"boomerang." She stepped into her current role in March.
“We can’t shelter our way out of homelessness," she says."We need more of the lasting solutions, and all the lasting solutions have a foundation of affordable housing, housing stability that can then be flexible to all individual needs." Denver paid CCH nearly $28.8 million for housing and services in 2022 and more than $28 million in 2021. That's a big bump from seven years ago, when the city paid CCH only about $1.4 million. But in the first year of the pandemic, Denver gave CCH $14 million in contracts, and the amount has only increased since then. Much of that increased funding has been subsidized by federal COVID relief like the American Rescue Plan.
Council unanimously approved a contract in April worth about $5.8 million to have CCH coordinate outreach efforts aimed at Denver's homeless and their encampments. About 94 percent of the people who are housed for the first time with CCH stay housed after that initial year off the streets, CCH estimates. Much of that comes from helping people with the cost of housing. Using
Many of the trespassing cases"were handled by building security, were roommate conflicts, or unfounded," and many of the calls for theft or robbery"included roommates or known people stealing from each other," according to the DPD. Lane was allegedly murdered by 22-year-old Erin Liljander, who lived in a homeless camp near the Globeville area and had visited him before.
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