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Beloved Community Village is getting Built! Yet Sweeps Continue…

May 22, 2017 by Jonathan Leave a Comment

Saturday May 20th, 2017 was the first big day of building Beloved Community Village, the first ever Tiny Home Village in Denver. 100 volunteers including future village residents, neighborhood residents, members of Mennonite Desiaster Services, Whiting-Turner, Ridian Ink, and members of all the organizations making up the newly formed Colorado Village Collaborative, came to help build the village! Monday we continued to build with over 40 volunteers. We will continue to build over the next week and are projecting to completely finish construction by the end of May.

At this time we have more volunteers than we have work for so if you want to help we encourage you to drop by with some snacks, donate at https://www.gofundme.com/denvers-first-tiny-home-village, or just drop by to say hi!

At the same time as the village was being built this morning, Denver police and city officials were sweeping about 20 people who had been staying on the side walk on 21st and Champa “away” and taking their belongings. Some folks staying out here moved to this area after being swept from the Lawrence and Park Ave area this winter and as more sweeps continued in areas along the river and elsewhere. Those swept from this area scattered to other areas outside breaking the same survival ban law everywhere they go to rest.

This village is the response of homeless people to this criminalization of survival and to the utter lack of housing poor people can actually attain. As we have seen through this building, with community we can build these homes with little money and little time. The struggle is for land and legalization of these attainable communities and homes — whether it be a tiny home, a tent, a tarp, or just a piece of cardboard.

Stay tuned for coming developments and come by and say hi as this village is build and as it becomes home for many! And talk with your council person and tell them you don’t want people to be swept and treated like trash…

Video of First Wall being Lifted!

Video by Unicorn Riot on Beloved Community Village Build https://vimeo.com/218386349

Denverite Coverage
https://www.denverite.com/watch-construction-begins-denvers-first-tiny-home-village-homeless-36169/

Contact:
Denver Homeless Out Loud
info@denverhomelessoutloud.org
720-940-5291

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