Comments on: Denver is missing something – the homeless http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/08/28/denver-is-missing-something-the-homeless/ Think. It ain't illegal yet... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:03:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Denver http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/08/28/denver-is-missing-something-the-homeless/comment-page-1/#comment-52447 Denver Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:23:42 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=3514#comment-52447 I work with Denver's Road Home and I would like to provide some clarification. Denver’s Road Home, the community's ten year plan to end homelessness, is issuing this statement to clarify what DRH is and correct misinformation circulating concerning the Democratic National Convention and the homeless. • The City and County of Denver is not giving out free haircuts. The owners of a private business, Sly’s Salon, distributed coupons and gave out free haircuts. We applaud this and other community efforts to help the homeless. • Bus tokens are available, as they are every day of the year, for the homeless to access the services that they need to live life off of the streets. • Denver’s Road Home is not aware of any zoo passes, museum tickets or other cultural activities being distributed to the homeless during the Democratic National Convention. A clarification to this point was issued by the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. • We are not hiding the homeless; we are helping the homeless find housing. Ensuring the homeless have short and long-term housing has always been the priority of Denver’s Road Home. This is not new for the DNC. Service delivery will be “business as usual” with a few extras during the convention to make sure everyone wanting shelter has a place to go. • Denver's Road Home has a comprehensive, long-term plan designed to put people into housing while addressing the underlying causes of homelessness. In the first three years since implementation, Denver's Road Home has reduced chronic homelessness by 36%. • Denver’s Road Home is working to ensure that people are safe and treated well during the DNC. We’re treating the homeless as we have been for almost three years. We are, and have always been, committed to ensuring everyone has a safe place to be. During the DNC, DRH will expand outreach services to get the homeless connected with services and shelter. DRH is also working with providers to expand facility hours, both day and evening, and to provide special programs for homeless youth. DRH is also working closely with the Denver Police to ensure the safety and well being of people on the streets. • We see the DNC as an opportunity to engage the homeless in the political process. DRH is working with several providers to register the homeless to vote and to provide convention viewing opportunities for the homeless. • The DNC is a great opportunity to educate our community and the nation about the plight of the homeless. Denver’s Road Home will be working to raise awareness about homelessness among convention delegates and the general public, just as we have with other large-scale events that have come to Denver. • Denver’s Road Home was here before DNC and will be here long after the convention is gone. Denver’s Road Home has been in place for three years, long before Denver was chosen to host the DNC. It is a comprehensive, long-term plan designed to get people into housing and access to services while addressing the underlying causes of homelessness. Because it is a ten year plan, it will be in place for many years to come. I work with Denver’s Road Home and I would like to provide some clarification.

Denver’s Road Home, the community’s ten year plan to end homelessness, is issuing this statement to clarify what DRH is and correct misinformation circulating concerning the Democratic National Convention and the homeless.

• The City and County of Denver is not giving out free haircuts. The owners of a private business, Sly’s Salon, distributed coupons and gave out free haircuts. We applaud this and other community efforts to help the homeless.

• Bus tokens are available, as they are every day of the year, for the homeless to access the services that they need to live life off of the streets.

• Denver’s Road Home is not aware of any zoo passes, museum tickets or other cultural activities being distributed to the homeless during the Democratic National Convention. A clarification to this point was issued by the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.

• We are not hiding the homeless; we are helping the homeless find housing. Ensuring the homeless have short and long-term housing has always been the priority of Denver’s Road Home. This is not new for the DNC. Service delivery will be “business as usual” with a few extras during the convention to make sure everyone wanting shelter has a place to go.

• Denver’s Road Home has a comprehensive, long-term plan designed to put people into housing while addressing the underlying causes of homelessness. In the first three years since implementation, Denver’s Road Home has reduced chronic homelessness by 36%.

• Denver’s Road Home is working to ensure that people are safe and treated well during the DNC. We’re treating the homeless as we have been for almost three years. We are, and have always been, committed to ensuring everyone has a safe place to be. During the DNC, DRH will expand outreach services to get the homeless connected with services and shelter. DRH is also working with providers to expand facility hours, both day and evening, and to provide special programs for homeless youth. DRH is also working closely with the Denver Police to ensure the safety and well being of people on the streets.

• We see the DNC as an opportunity to engage the homeless in the political process. DRH is working with several providers to register the homeless to vote and to provide convention viewing opportunities for the homeless.

• The DNC is a great opportunity to educate our community and the nation about the plight of the homeless. Denver’s Road Home will be working to raise awareness about homelessness among convention delegates and the general public, just as we have with other large-scale events that have come to Denver.

• Denver’s Road Home was here before DNC and will be here long after the convention is gone. Denver’s Road Home has been in place for three years, long before Denver was chosen to host the DNC. It is a comprehensive, long-term plan designed to get people into housing and access to services while addressing the underlying causes of homelessness. Because it is a ten year plan, it will be in place for many years to come.

]]> By: Wayward Bill Amerika http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/08/28/denver-is-missing-something-the-homeless/comment-page-1/#comment-52197 Wayward Bill Amerika Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:37:59 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=3514#comment-52197 I am resident of Denver. I live on the edge of Downtown. I was a Counter~Delegate at the Counter~Convention or Festival of Democracy and was in the mix 5 days. Now given the number of the several Colorado cities, state, and of the federal alphabet agencies badge wearing finest in full view at all times and who were mostly everywhere don't you think that just because a person is homeless that they don't know when the deck is stacked against them.? The smart ones went to the homeless rag. Took their training and were awarded vendor lanyards. Legal panhandling. The others probably squirreled up whatever and stayed away wherever. The was no draconian law of privilege enacted on the unfortunate. I am proud to be a resident of Denver, contrary to popular belief the cows are out on the prairie and the kwel dude and dudettes live here. We are progressive! Hey first city in the union to legalize marijuana! Now stick some of that in your pocket and give it to the next panhandler! Yippie, Wayward Bill Amerika I am resident of Denver. I live on the edge of Downtown.

I was a Counter~Delegate at the Counter~Convention or Festival of Democracy and was in the mix 5 days.

Now given the number of the several Colorado cities, state, and of the federal alphabet agencies badge wearing finest in full view at all times and who were mostly everywhere don’t you think that just because a person is homeless that they don’t know when the deck is stacked against them.?

The smart ones went to the homeless rag. Took their training and were awarded vendor lanyards. Legal panhandling. The others probably squirreled up whatever and stayed away wherever. The was no draconian law of privilege enacted on the unfortunate.

I am proud to be a resident of Denver, contrary to popular belief the cows are out on the prairie and the kwel dude and dudettes live here.

We are progressive!

Hey first city in the union to legalize marijuana!

Now stick some of that in your pocket and give it to the next panhandler!

Yippie,
Wayward Bill Amerika

]]> By: jerrol davis http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/08/28/denver-is-missing-something-the-homeless/comment-page-1/#comment-52186 jerrol davis Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:02:49 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=3514#comment-52186 Isn't this ironic? Finally, we have a presidential noiminee who actully relates and empatizes with people in poverty. People have to live on the street and in shelters because of two things; poverty and a lack of affordable housing. When are we all going to "get it?" If we aren't affluent (middle class to McCain) we are in jeapordy. Any of us who are working for a living, renting or paying a mortagage, and trying to drive a vehicle on a daily basis, tend to our familes and afford to eat are less than a missed pay period away from the street. People, this thing about the homeless being missing from Denver....that may or may not be dirty tricks by the city government. But I can tell you with complete honesty and candor that some of those people who weren't on view during the convention were working. Some of them were attending class. Some of them were in meetings from recovery group to yoga lessons. Some of them were so ill they couldn't come outside. Some were dying. Some were giving birth, and some were having a romantic date. Some were tending to their children, and some were remembering their children with sadness and longing. Here's the point. This "homeless" thing isn't about the "homeless." It's about you and it's about me! Isn’t this ironic? Finally, we have a presidential noiminee who actully relates and empatizes with people in poverty. People have to live on the street and in shelters because of two things; poverty and a lack of affordable housing. When are we all going to “get it?” If we aren’t affluent (middle class to McCain) we are in jeapordy. Any of us who are working for a living, renting or paying a mortagage, and trying to drive a vehicle on a daily basis, tend to our familes and afford to eat are less than a missed pay period away from the street. People, this thing about the homeless being missing from Denver….that may or may not be dirty tricks by the city government. But I can tell you with complete honesty and candor that some of those people who weren’t on view during the convention were working. Some of them were attending class. Some of them were in meetings from recovery group to yoga lessons. Some of them were so ill they couldn’t come outside. Some were dying. Some were giving birth, and some were having a romantic date. Some were tending to their children, and some were remembering their children with sadness and longing. Here’s the point. This “homeless” thing isn’t about the “homeless.” It’s about you and it’s about me!

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