Denver City Council will consider major housing and homeless services contracts in the coming month, including two worth $33 million proposed by the Denver Department of Housing Stability (HOST) to work with Urban Alchemy, an embattled national nonprofit, for the next three years. Councilmembers are also considering contracts to install the St. Francis Center and Bayaud Works, both Denver-based organizations, as homeless service providers.
The new service providers would replace the Salvation Army, which announced earlier this year that it would no longer oversee three city-funded homeless shelters that were converted from old hotels as part of Mayor Mike Johnston’s All In Mile High (AIMH) plan.
The Housing Stability department is proposing a two-year, $20 million contract for St. Francis Center to run Stone Creek, a 182-unit former Best Western at 4595 Quebec Street, and a two-year, $14 million contract for Bayuad Works to run the Tamarac Family Shelter, a 205-unit former Embassy Suites at 7525 East Hampden Avenue…