DENVER (KDVR) — The city of Denver’s Newcomer Program for newly arrived migrants is facing new challenges with evictions.
The city of Denver says it is focusing on 15 unnamed apartment complexes with a high concentration of migrant evictions. As of mid-July, there had been $455,557.94 in rental assistance, $11,721.39 in utility assistance and $1,500 in relocation assistance.
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Jon Ewing, marketing and communications specialist for Denver Human Services, said those numbers are even with the city not having any migrant buses in the last two month. Funds are continuing to be stretched thin.
“At this moment, I don’t believe there is a single person staying in our newcomer shelter. We have another site that’s with families and young kids and there are around 100 people there, but in January we were at around 5,000 in the shelter.”…