Mercy Housing, a national affordable housing nonprofit headquartered in Denver, will build a 187-unit community centered on “recognizing the historic displacement of American Indian tribes” after presenting the winning grant proposal to the Denver Housing Authority.
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Carla Respects Nothing left the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota right after high school, wondering what other life was beyond the rolling prairie. She had relatives in Denver, so she came to Colorado’s largest.
The first-of-its-kind bill, which took three years to draft, would provide mandatory, full federal funding for Native communities housing, education and health care.