City Used Homeless Donations To Assist With Homeless Sweep

DENVER (CBS4)– A CBS4 Investigation has found that the City of Denver used thousands of dollars in public donations intended to help Denver’s homeless with food, shelter and counseling to instead pay costs associated with a sweep of the homeless population out of Denver’s Ballpark neighborhood in March.

“I think when people give money to the city to help the homeless they fully anticipate that’s what those funds will be used for,” said Cathy Alderman with Colorado’s Coalition for the Homeless. “I think the public who donated here would be very disappointed.”

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The CBS4 Investigation found that when city administrators were planning the March sweep, they immediately wanted to use donations that had been made to Denver’s Road Home to assist the homeless population.

In a series of city emails obtained by CBS4, city officials from the mayor’s office, public works and a host of other city agencies grappled behind the scenes with an anticipated bill of nearly $60,000 to pay an environmental company to move, store and redistribute personal property confiscated from homeless men and women during the sweep.

"This Happened"

1. And I just witnessed the saddest moment of introducing my wife to gaming.

TheBlueDeath 3 hours ago#1 The binding of isaac is what got her started in gaming due to the graphics of it being cutesy. This was about a year ago. (PC gaming but Ps4 is more active than the ds3 pc board) Starts off horrible at most games to start with but keeps trying due to her wanting to see more. Kept watching me play dark souls 3 then got started on her own character. i explained dueling and about how Pontiff's area is a designed spot for her. She tried her hand at it and kept getting destroyed of course but after being summoned she got killed and the player did the (point at the ground) gesture. She asked "Why did he do that? normally they bow or wave" in the most innocent (or ignorant) way possible. I told her that he was showboating over having killed her and then she did it again, asking "Why?" once more. I just looked at her, forgetting she didn't grow up with online gaming and experience all the ass****es. I told her how he was rubbing in the fact he won and she shrugged, saying it was just a game. But after that she didn't seem to be having as much fun or laughing after the duels. We booted up Mario Cart on the wii for a change of pace afterwards but that moment really stuck out, how she realized that a lot of online gamers are wieners. Made me sad.