Denver City Council approves $20 million lease for new homeless shelter in Northeast Park Hill

Den­ver City Coun­cil approved a 10-year, $20 mil­lion lease Mon­day night for a new home­less shel­ter on 48th Street, which could host up to 450 peo­ple, though it’s unclear when the site could open.

The coun­cil approved the lease unan­i­mous­ly and with­out con­ver­sa­tion on a con­sent agen­da, denot­ing a lack of con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the measure.

The shel­ter site will be locat­ed at 4600 E. 48th Ave., and will be fund­ed most­ly through fed­er­al CARES Act dol­lars. It’s meant to sup­ple­ment more shel­ter beds as city offi­cials have recent­ly closed oth­er con­gre­gate shel­ters around Denver.

But before the site can open, the build­ing needs new restrooms, show­ers, heat­ing and air con­di­tion­ing improve­ments and more, said Derek Wood­bury, spokesper­son for Denver’s Depart­ment of Hous­ing Stability.

The shel­ter will be just east of the Sal­va­tion Army’s exist­ing shel­ter on 48th Avenue in North­east Park Hill and it’s par­tial­ly meant to com­pen­sate for lost space after city offi­cials closed down the con­gre­gate shel­ter at the Nation­al West­ern Com­plex in ear­ly August.

At the same time, city offi­cials have been work­ing to open Denver’s first tem­po­rary sanc­tioned out­door space for more peo­ple expe­ri­enc­ing home­less­ness. But no site has been seri­ous­ly sug­gest­ed as a viable option for the first camp. Mean­while, city offi­cials con­tin­ue to break up exist­ing, ille­gal encamp­ments, con­trary to fed­er­al rec­om­men­da­tions and with­out prop­er jus­ti­fi­ca­tion, some experts have said.

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