NEW: Denver officials are making plans to decommission the city's emergency shelters for migrants in recreation centers, beginning with setting a two-week limit on how long those seeking shelter can stay.
Dreyer said “the community has an obligation to keep people safe,” so officials hope to identify other facilities for sheltering. The facilities don’t have to be city-owned, and city leaders hope other community groups will step up.
— we were there. And so we needed to come up with a number of different strategies and approaches really to begin to help reduce numbers of people in all of these facilities.”at their request — and reducing the amount of time people were in emergency shelter, sleeping on blankets or mats on a gym floor.
And without that individual case management, “the residents of these shelters aren’t going to magically come up with somewhere in 14 days that they haven’t come up with in the days before now,” Piper said. Piper recognizes that’s not city officials’ intent, and she commended the work city staff has done in the shelters, but she hopes for a more efficient process to work with the migrants and asylum-seekers that she thinks the state can assist with.
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