After the policy became public, the City of Denver noted that kind of discrimination is in direct violation of the Mission's $8.7 million city contract.
As a cold spell blankets Colorado, housing advocates argued the temperature threshold for Denver to open its emergency "warming" shelters needs to be higher than 10°F.
Notices first appeared on doors at Quality Inn in mid-August where more than 150 people living there were using it as an emergency shelter during the pandemic.