Concerns raised over living conditions at new Aurora homeless shelter and center

AURORA | The new Aurora Navigation Campus for homeless people is off to a rough start, with sewage backups and reports of “chaotic rules” and moving goalposts.

“I have been sent deeply concerning photos of the Navigation Center,” Aurora School Board member Kristin Mallory Westerberg said during Monday’s meeting. “This is a space where we were promised would offer dignity, safety and real pathways to jobs and permanent housing for our unhoused neighbors.

Instead, Westerberg and others say they’ve seen photos showing soiled towels left on the floor, sewer plumbing issues that appear unresolved, food waste on the ground and meals that fall far short of what anyone would consider “dignified or humane.”…

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