Matina Soutous, a resident of Denver for more than 10 years, complained to local officials about the homeless camps that were invading her community and decided to grab a trash bag and clean the area, according to CBS Denver. “Every time I looked the homeless camps began to grow,” said Soutous of the homeless camps near her home in the Denver’s Curtis Park neighborhood.
When she complained to the city about the area growing dirtier and more dangerous with trash and needles, she found that her complaints fell on deaf ears. “We decided to just get some plastic bags and see what we can do,” she said of her decision to take action. Soutous and other residents began to clean the neighborhood, and although they made it look better, it still did not address the issue of the growing number of homeless camps in the area.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock says he’s fully aware of the issues surrounding the growing number of homeless camps. “We must follow progressive steps and acknowledge that we have to go through certain steps to verbally warn, provide written warning and then move in to expedite getting people into the shelter or moving from this area,” said Hancock of the problem.
4 Comments
Amy
Democrats need to be voted out of office. They destroy every city they run and yet idiots still vote them into office.
Denver Resident
We are now voting on Initiative #300 that allows for the homeless the right to rest and shelter in public outdoor areas. This is bad policy and doesn’t address the real reason of homelessness. Only when you address the real issue can we attempt to solve it. Putting a band-aid on the problem like Initiative #300 is trying to do will exacerbate the issue. Look at LA or Seattle and their crisis. Denver needs to “wake” up and put an end to ridiculous liberal policies.
barry
the problem is the “government bribes ” in the form of hand outs that they
can not afford to pay for, but continue to raise taxes, force hard working individuals
to have to leave their homes and move to a more capitalistic state over the
ones run by socialists ,
the old statement about socialists they love spending
other peoples money and do so till it is all gone!
if they love socialism so much then why do they not move to a country
like Cuba or Russia and “live their socialist dream” and leave America alone.
Kmbold
The “progressive” mayor is complicit in the paralysis exhibited in Denver and every other Democrat-run city, town, and village in this country. Make so many regulations that you never get through them. I have an idea: ignore those regs and declare an emergency. Do your job!