{"id":1208217,"date":"2022-09-21T01:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T01:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/21\/denver-to-give-homeless-people-12k-cash-in-new-pilot-program\/"},"modified":"2022-09-21T01:04:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T01:04:56","slug":"denver-to-give-homeless-people-12k-cash-in-new-pilot-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/21\/denver-to-give-homeless-people-12k-cash-in-new-pilot-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver To Give Homeless People $12K Cash In New Pilot Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n                                <!--  --><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The city of Denver approved a $2 million program for the Denver Basic Income Project geared towards the homeless.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Up to 140 women, transgender, and non-conforming individuals will receive $1,000 cash monthly for 12 months. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">City officials stated the monthly stipends will \u201clift individuals out of homelessness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Just as important as housing and shelter is a regular source of income for those experiencing homelessness, Mayor Michael B. Hancock said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hancock continued:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This direct cash assistance will help more than 140 women and families currently in shelters move into stable housing, and provide support, so they can stay housed while opening space in our shelters to serve more people.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The $2 million was approved by City Council last week.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The $2 million allocated for this cause is from the American Rescue Plan Act.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">University of Denver\u2019s<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Center for Housing and Homelessness Research will monitor the program, focusing on \u201chousing outcomes, utilization of shelter and other homeless services, improvements in psychological health and substance use for those who opt-in,\u201d Fox News reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Colorado GOP Chairwoman Kristi Burton Brown was not in favor of the program.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with \u201cMornings With Maria,\u201d she stated that the program was \u201cunsustainable\u201d and \u201cterrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p> fbq('init', '1743561565887263'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Denver approved a $2 million program for the Denver Basic Income Project geared towards the homeless.\u00a0 Up to 140 women, transgender, and non-conforming individuals will receive $1,000 cash monthly for 12 months. City officials stated the monthly stipends will \u201clift individuals out of homelessness.\u201d Just as important as housing and shelter is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1061470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}