DENVER — Denver landlords who house people transitioning from homelessness through housing vouchers are discovering they shoulder significant responsibility once tenants leave city shelters, with limited oversight from the city or programs that placed them.
Christina Eisenstein’s family owns an 18-unit apartment building in Congress Park, where six units were filled this fall with tenants using state housing vouchers after exiting city-run hotel shelters. The property management company enrolled in the program without informing the building’s owner, Eisenstein said.
“The property management company signed up and did not tell my mother-in-law, the owner, that they were doing that,” Eisenstein said. “They proceeded to fill 30% of the units with people straight from the shelters.”…