“It is not necessarily true, either, that the people living here are contributing to drug trafficking, are being a nuisance, or are being deviant in their behaviors.”
“And without it, I daresay that a number of people would be out there in the alleys in many places where businesses are and where things are awry,” he continued. And the atmosphere in this building is safe and sound.
“The fact is that is well managed, with case management and acute care for people. “Every single day, when I wake up in the morning, I get up with the idea of contributing to the society and the community I live in,” he said. Longtime homeless advocate and Aloft resident Randle Loeb said the program has saved the lives of people like him, that it’s well run, and that the building’s residents are not causing trouble. Trying to block the shelter, UpDoNa members said, is about protecting children who attend events at the Convention Center from several registered sex offenders who live at Aloft and ensuring both housed residents and tourists can walk through downtown without seeing people using drugs and experiencing harassment. They say it’s a smart way to keep the rising number of unhoused people off of the streets and move them toward permanent housing.īut members of UpDoNa told City Council that sheltered people experiencing homelessness at Aloft are ruining their neighborhood, hurting the downtown economy and causing safety and sanitation issues. This type of shelter has been touted as an innovative solution to the city’s homelessness crisis by Mayor Michael Hancock and other proponents of the city’s urban camping ban, along with many of its opponents. The Salvation Army operates the hotel, in partnership with HOST. Of the people who have stayed in these hotels, 343 have been moved into permanent housing, and 70 of those were from Aloft. The arrangement opens individual rooms for unhoused people at the Aloft Denver Downtown, a hotel at 15th and Stout Streets.Īloft is one of four hotels where Denver’s Department of Housing Stability, or HOST, has made available a total of 563 individual rooms for people experiencing homelessness who are vulnerable to COVID-19. The debate over who Downtown Denver is for - and who should be pushed out - continued at City Council this week.Ī handful of residents from the luxury Spire Condos and the Upper Downtown Neighborhood Association, or UpDoNa, told lawmakers Monday night that the city should end its contract with JBK Hotels.
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