What's the different between 'encampment decommissioning' and a Denver homeless sweep?
In Mayor Michael Hancock's proposed budget for 2023, a new phrase for the City of Denver —"encampment decommissioning" — shows up numerous times.
These centers, based on a Houston model, would be the first stop for many people leaving encampments."We would close the encampment and bring them into the housing navigation center and then connect them to the long-term resource there," Fisher says, noting that rooms in the navigation centers could have a couple of people lodging in each, and would only be temporary.
"Encampment decommissioning" from a housing-first perspective can only work if there's enough housing, she admits, and in the meantime, when some encampments are swept, their occupants will simply be displaced."Certainly, how many encampments we can address with this method is dependent on housing," acknowledges Fisher., who went on the trip.
Howard also wonders how the navigation centers will function if they don't have places for people to go."Navigation centers only work if you have housing to connect folks to out of that. I'm definitely having some questions on how they're planning on running that," she says.
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