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   The city of Denver plans to clear a large homeless encampment in   
   Capitol Hill next week in the first public action to be matched with   
   an offer to move each resident indoors.   
      
   Seventy people living in rows of tents and other makeshift shelters   
   near East Eighth Avenue and Logan Street will be offered the chance   
   to move into long-term hotel rooms — secured by the city as shelter   
   for the homeless — or be given other options, city spokesman Derek   
   Woodbury said Thursday. The encampment, set to be cleared Tuesday,   
   sits across from the Colorado governor’s mansion.   
      
   Any relocations would count toward meeting Mayor Mike Johnston’s   
   goal of moving 1,000 people living on the city’s streets into   
   temporary or permanent accommodations before the end of the year.   
      
   “We’re working to match as many of the residents as possible with   
   housing and shelter, including offering them indoor placement at a   
   non-congregate shelter at an undisclosed hotel,” Woodbury said from   
   the city’s emergency operations center. The new mayor activated the   
   center to address homelessness.   
      
   So far, the handful of city sweeps of encampments since Johnston   
   took office in mid-July haven’t come with similar housing offers   
   because of insufficient resources as Johnston’s administration works   
   to set up micro-communities across the city, secure more hotels and   
   expand capacity in other ways.   
      
   Homelessness advocate Ana Gloom said people living in the camp   
   understood that they would be the first to be granted access to   
   shelter options as part of a sweep. As of Thursday, there still was   
   confusion around some issues, including how much property people   
   could bring with them and who would help them with the next steps   
   once they move, such as acquiring IDs needed to access more   
   permanent housing.   
      
   “A hotel room, for the lack of a better option, is better than a   
   tent, I won’t lie. But it’s still not housing,” said Gloom, who does   
   outreach work for Housekeys Action Network Denver, an advocacy   
   group.   
      
   Johnston’s administration isn’t ruling out the possibility of future   
   sweeps that lack connections to shelter or housing for an   
   encampment’s residents, particularly when a camp is classified as a   
   public health or safety risk.   
      
   https://www.denverpost.com/2023/09/21/denver-homeless-encampment-   
   sweep-offering-hotel-rooms/   
      
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