The Colorado Safe Parking Initiative runs 12 safe parking sites across the Denver area. The state is investing $150,000 into the program, enough to open a new lot.
“My senior year of high school, I found myself homeless, unhoused. I lived on the streets for an entire year. That just kind of gave me a heart and a passion for identifying, associating and connecting with people who find themselves in that predicament,” said Gilbert, whose family moved from Guyana to the U.S. Virgin Islands when he was young. After his stint on the streets, Gilbert served in the U.S. Air Force and later got an undergraduate degree in computer science. But being a pastor was his calling, and he established Restoration Christian Fellowship in Aurora just before the start of the millennium.
Denver group provides safe place to park for people forced to live in their cars
Colorado Safe Parking Initiative, provides meals, bathrooms and secure places for people living in their cars to park without getting ticketed or towed. Author: Jaleesa Irizarry Updated: 10:13 PM MST December 23, 2020
DENVER Like many in this country, the global pandemic took Randy Chase’s job in California last spring – so he trekked it back to Colorado where he continues to wait for his first unemployment check while living in his truck.
Along with a handful of others in a lit, undisclosed church parking lot on the metro area’s northwest side, Chase called a designated parking space with a numbered placard, home.