Denver officials learn that Houston's approach to solving homelessness took inspiration from Denver's Road Home!
, Houston found success by collaborating with county agencies and persuading local service providers, corporations and nonprofits to join together to find a solution for homelessness. They focused on a housing-first approach that emphasizes getting people experiencing homelessness into housing rather than first requiring them to get off drugs or get a job.
But she may find some gridlock at home. While Coffman says he recognizes that Houston and its partners have collaborated effectively, Aurora's mayor isn't ready to buy into the housing-first approach."One problem that I had, during the visit, was their inability to explain what happens with the participants in the program during the two years that they were being housed without any specific preconditions or requirements," Coffman wrote onon September 16.
"They, interestingly, received thousands of housing vouchers after Hurricane Harvey," Dreyer says."They had a housing market that, for a period of time, had some flex in it, some capacity, some availability and some vacancy, and they were able to take advantage of that." The idea of homeless service providers collaborating on the issue of homelessness is not a new one in the Mile High City., created by Mayor John Hickenlooper's administration in 2005, was designed to bring together the various entities working on homelessness in Denver who'd been operating in silos.
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