Denver is set to break ground on first
'micro community' to house 1,000 homeless
people - complete with tiny homes, private
space and communal showers and kitchens
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Alex Hammer
Original Article
Posted By: zephyrgirl,
10/11/2023 10:03:45 AM
Encampment-overrun Denver is set to break ground on the first of many micro-communities designed to house the homeless - with 1,000 taxpayer-funded homes set to open by the end of the year. The site, located on S. Santa Fe Drive, is one of 11 being propped up by the famously progressive city, which is currently in the midst of an unprecedented homelessness crisis. Worsening matters is the fact the homeless are not exactly roughing it - with tent-laden processions complete with furniture and other amenities now a common sight in the Mile High City.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
RCFLyer98 10/11/2023 10:07:43 AM (No. 1574661)
Agree with poster . . . it will be a disaster. It will be interesting to have a truthful report on this project in 6 months to a year. I don't think the do-gooders will ever learn . . . but, we'll see.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jdano 10/11/2023 10:15:26 AM (No. 1574669)
Fenced in I hope.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 10/11/2023 10:24:43 AM (No. 1574683)
A refugee camp! Probably the first of many. Our government has no intention of sending them back.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
kennedylaw 10/11/2023 10:26:04 AM (No. 1574685)
Bidenvilles. Coming soon to a democrat controlled dystopia near you.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 10/11/2023 10:28:34 AM (No. 1574687)
Sure, make it easier for them to be completely worthless and a drag on the community.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
griddog1 10/11/2023 10:31:12 AM (No. 1574692)
They never learn do they. Liberals are the biggest fools on the face of the earth!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 10/11/2023 10:31:15 AM (No. 1574693)
By this time next year, they’ll have to bulldoze this monstrosity; it will be thoroughly trashed.
Denver used to be a nice town until the Democrats lost their minds, and Colorado was invaded by nutcases. Now, it’s a dung heap. I seldom venture into Denver, but when I do, I’m armed.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Citoyen 10/11/2023 10:35:40 AM (No. 1574702)
While I have doubts that left-wing Democrats can make this residential scheme a success, I think, in principle, confining the homeless to supervised areas could work. Victorian London had poor houses for those who couldn’t or wouldn’t support themselves. Of course back then no one had any problem with forcing the indigent into the poor houses. There was no ACLU fighting to keep the mentally disturbed and drug addicted on the streets. Good luck to Denver.
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This would be a great opportunity for a documentary movie producer to watch this program devolve into a full Lord of the Flies dystopia over the course of six months.
Kind of a microcosm of bad liberal ideas, all at once.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/11/2023 10:46:16 AM (No. 1574715)
Great, build ten times as many as you think you need. 1000 homeless people is a tiny fraction of the total we are now stuck with. Be sure to advise Texas to send more buses up your way. Smarter Denver residents, if there is such a thing, would be advised to move out now, before you get the bill. The best place to go would be back to California.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 10/11/2023 10:46:36 AM (No. 1574716)
OP has it nailed. It will be hell on Earth in a few weeks or sooner.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
danu 10/11/2023 10:58:34 AM (No. 1574733)
iirc, the b of a built oodles of affordable housing in ca , but not for middle class in need of it. they gave it to illegal aliens.
grateful ppl moved in , never paid a dime of their mortgages, ripped the houses down to the foundations,
then took up the foundations--concrete and copper piping--and carted every dime of it...to Mexico.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rather Read 10/11/2023 11:02:38 AM (No. 1574741)
It won't go well. I remember a story about a homeless family that had about 6 children. The community was touched and they got together and renovated a home for them and even furnished it. In less than a year, it was trashed.
This will be worse.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/11/2023 11:13:07 AM (No. 1574759)
Yuck. Yeah, just imagine what these micro-communities will look and smell like after being occupied for a few months. Full of rats, feces, roaches, and mice. Much glad I moved away from the People's Republic of Denver in favor of the west slope.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/11/2023 11:13:20 AM (No. 1574761)
Communist Nirvana...have fun Slugs!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
smak90 10/11/2023 11:25:57 AM (No. 1574786)
I can't imagine what the communal showers will turn in to.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
janjan 10/11/2023 11:32:59 AM (No. 1574794)
Liberals still believe, after heaps of evidence to the contrary, that the problem with homeless people is that they don’t have a home.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Highlander 10/11/2023 11:45:27 AM (No. 1574809)
If they trash the luxury hotels that were forced to house them, by what stretch of logic will they respect their own nests, which no doubt, would be fouled as birds do?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Northcross 10/11/2023 11:48:36 AM (No. 1574810)
For half the price, they could build an asylum for the unfortunate souls who cannot function in society.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 10/11/2023 11:56:15 AM (No. 1574817)
The problem is not that homeless do not have living quarters. This is predictably doomed to fail.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Kate318 10/11/2023 12:08:44 PM (No. 1574838)
Just came back from Denver a couple of weeks ago. They are so screwed and they don’t even realize it.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 10/11/2023 12:14:59 PM (No. 1574843)
They'll be destroyed within a year....
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bighambone 10/11/2023 12:23:07 PM (No. 1574853)
I was stationed at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Aurora in the early 1960’s for over a year. There never was a homeless situation around Denver at that time. One thing I remember about Denver is that it was very cold in the winter and there was a lot of snow. I am wondering how they intend to heat those “micro homes” and who is going to remove all the snow for the “micro homed people” who will have to have a clear path to use the commune toilets and other facilities 24/7.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
smokincol 10/11/2023 12:29:50 PM (No. 1574856)
that's the demcommies for ya' - if it doesn't work throw large amounts of money at it and that will fix the problem when the opposite of true
- just shows that the demcommies don't want to or don't know how to govern and are only in it for the $$$ for each one
- this could be the beginning of the "re-education" camps that PIAPS proposed recently and especially if the builders put a fence around it
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 10/11/2023 12:47:55 PM (No. 1574881)
Probably a waste of money to build showers.
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Bidenomics ghettos.
They’ll be slightly upscale homeless tent cities.
Some of the residents will be helped. Most will just live their lives of drugs, drunkenness and crime with, in the short term, better digs than they had.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 10/11/2023 1:35:04 PM (No. 1574915)
Oh, come on Denver, we can do better than that. Tine Homes ?? Why ? Lets give them all BIG homes
with pools and 4 car garages and the ELECTRIC SUV's to fill those garages ! All it takes is money and
ol' Biden's got that licked with all the currency presses running around the clock ! /soff
Anybody here familiar with the generic term 'projects' referring to apartments built starting the the late
1950's or 60's ?? Yeah, those have worked out so well, There are places all over this country where they are
still used and most of those places you wouldn't walk through in the DAYTIME without an armed escort !
Yeah, this is going to work out just great to solve the 'homeless' problem we have,
Agree with others here, in 18 to 24 months you'll go out of your way to drive around and avoid this
'government built, taxpayer funded, free utopia' !
Enjoy.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 10/11/2023 1:38:59 PM (No. 1574921)
Those tiny ''houses'' will be freezing in winter. Expect them to build a fire inside, and create a maelstrom.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 10/11/2023 1:39:38 PM (No. 1574924)
Instant slums. Build housing for bums, and Skid Row WILL be the result.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
padiva 10/11/2023 9:00:28 PM (No. 1575223)
Who will clean the communal bathrooms and kitchens?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 10/12/2023 12:10:43 AM (No. 1575312)
Every liberal impulse is always toward the worst possible waste of taxpayer money and the most destructive outcome for society.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
homefry 10/12/2023 7:46:28 AM (No. 1575471)
They'll be over run. If you want more of something, subsidize it, the bums will scurry in like roaches.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
privateer 10/12/2023 10:59:26 AM (No. 1575672)
Just in time to receive the influx of 'unfortunate' Hamas refugees.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
mifla 10/12/2023 2:52:46 PM (No. 1575870)
And what is the plan to maintain these homes? If a water line breaks, or a leak in the roof appears, who is going to fix it?
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