The Denver City Council will consider Monday awarding a $1.1 million contract to the Salvation Army to feed residents of the city’s tiny home villages for the homeless.
The contract requires the Salvation Army to provide three “nutritious” meals per day, and one must be hot. They also must provide snacks, according to the contract.
I can’t help but wonder what these tiny home occupants will be eating for that million-plus-dollar contract. When I stayed at Salvation Army Crossroads as a person experiencing homelessness in 2018-2019, they served two meals: Oatmeal in the morning (and they restricted the use of sugar packets for the oatmeal only, none for coffee, which you had to buy from a coffee vending machine) and bean soup in the evening. Every. Single. Day.
I hope the residents of the micro-communities get better meals than that. Otherwise, they will have to go search for additional food from the homeless meal lines. I wonder if any of them have microwaves in their tiny homes so they can at least prepare meals from canned goods and frozen foods.