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Denver, CO. SWEEP this week 4/1

The city continues to SWEEP encampments AGAINST CDC guidelines during a PANDEMIC! They have not learned that sweeping people does not work! DOTI has planned a SWEEP THIS WEEK on Thursday 4/1 at 4th and Kalamath, The SWEEP will begin at 6:30 a.m. Please come and support our unhoused community…

Denver, CO. Sweeps Case Goes to Hearing December 15th and 16th: Call in Number Available

We have an access number you can call to listen to the hearing for the lawsuit against the sweeps December 15th and 16th at 9am! For public audio access to the hearing, please call 877-336-1828 and enter access code 9449909#.…

WRAP Members Highlights

WRAP was created to expose and eliminate the root causes of civil and human rights abuses of people experiencing poverty and homelessness in our communities. Coalition On Homelessness Denver Homeless Out Loud Los Angeles Community Action Network Right 2 Survive …

Denver, CO. Shelters Trashing Residents Property

These pictures show property of shelter residents at the 48th street shelter taken from residents who were not there for a night and trashed the next morning. The shelter has a practice of trashing the property of anyone who is…

Denver Tent Count: July 17th Join us!

When: July 17th 2020 1pm – 4pm (ish) 8pm – 10pm (ish) Where: Denver Homeless Out Loud office – 2260 California st Denver CO 80205 (and then to the streets…) What: We will be meeting at the office and then…

Denver, CO. Support Needed for Houseless Residents Living in Lincoln Park Affected by Police Violence and Racism

As Racism and Police Terror continue to dominate our country, it is due time we the people rise in outcry to this injustice. Racism is at the root of mass homelessness in the US – over 50% or the nation’s…

The Pandemic Has Shown Us The System MUST Change Now

By WRAP and Molly Beckhardt Many will not remember this, but before the early 1980s, there weren’t millions of homeless people in the United States. Far too many lived in poverty, but people were not forced to live in…

Summary of WRAP Member Groups’ and Allies Responses to Covid-19 Pandemic

The neoliberal, profit-focused policies that have been the go-to in this country for 37 years are now deadlier than ever. The Covid-19 pandemic exposes for all to see the truths that WRAP and WRAP member groups have been working to…

Nothing Ends Homelessness Like a Home: the People’s Housing Platform

On January 29th, seven Congressional Representatives announced a set of proposals to address homelessness and housing poverty in the United States. Together, these proposals re-assert the federal government’s responsibility to provide safe and affordable housing for all. Named “the People’s…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |Oakland’s Housed & Unhoused To Reclaim Dr. King’s Radical Legacy, Message & Call For Moral Responsibility | Emergency Guerilla Housing To Be Built for Unsheltered Over MLK Weekend

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oakland’s Housed & Unhoused To Reclaim Dr. King’s Radical Legacy, Message & Call For Moral Responsibility Emergency Guerilla Housing To Be Built for Unsheltered Over MLK Weekend Guerrilla Housing & Facilities Emergency Build On E12th St. between…