Posts Tagged ‘homeless’
The 1175 Lee Hill Homeless Housing Controversy: Reflections on a Public Hearing
On March 20th, the Boulder City Council held a public hearing on the controversial 1175 Lee Hill chronically homeless housing project, filling council chambers and an overflow room. Twenty-three members of the North Boulder Alliance provided [...]
Yes! | Time to Rediscover Poverty
The poor were different from the rest of us, it argued, radically different, and not just in the sense that they were deprived, disadvantaged, poorly housed, or poorly fed. They felt different, too, thought differently, and pursued lifestyles [...]
Time | The Wet House: Homeless People with Alcoholism Drink Less When Booze Is Allowed
“Participants in the study told us that they’re happy to have a home, and happy that they no longer have to drink to stay warm or to put themselves to sleep or to forget that they’re on the streets.” Read the entire article at Time.com: [...]
Embracing the Night (and the Ground)
Concerning the recent community discussion about closing Boulder Parks and Open Space to night use, I have a few thoughts I'd like to share. Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks already has a ban on parking in trailhead and other open space lots [...]
Rest and Respite
Editor's note: This article first appeared in the Denver Voice and is posted with permission of its editor. -- Mary Young. When we're sick, a warm bed, steaming soup and some medicine puts us back on our feet, usually within a few days. But what [...]
Choice of Evils
"I always think that he was once somebody's baby boy. Really, I do. I think he was once somebody's baby boy, and he had a mother and a father who loved him, and now there he is, half dead on a park bench, and where are his mother or his father, [...]
Can Boulder Do More for the Homeless?
Allowing camping on public property would not solve the problem of homelessness, Tom Carr, Boulder City Attorney, declared at a PLAN-Boulder forum on June 10 entitled “Should Something Different Be Done for the Homeless in Boulder?” But Carr and [...]
Boulder’s Street Art: The Work of Boulder’s Homeless Artists
Thursday, July 15, 5-7 pm, Café Gondolier, 1738 Pearl St., will host a free reception for the homeless art show currently on display in the restaurant. The show will continue until September 30. The chef/owner Nelson Kugel of the Gondolier [...]
