One of them was closed on Monday, and then another on Wednesday.
While Cesar Ramos took a break from cleaning car windows off a ramp from the 6th Avenue Freeway onto Federal Boulevard , he shook his head at the idea of more Venezuela n migrants like him coming to Denver .
A month after Johnston's plan went into action, the City of Denver announced on Monday, April 1, that it would be closing down two additional shelters this week, leaving the city with one non-congregate site. The city finished closing the four sites Johnston promised in February to shutter, as well, but it closed the two additional shelters — including Ramos' old stomping ground on Federal Boulevard — on Monday.
The city also stopped migrant shelter services at a congregate site set up at the McNichols Building, which was used as an emergency shelter, on Saturday, March 30. The city is still running one more congregate site with the Denver Community Church, which can shelter up to 120 people, as a transitional shelter meant to give individual migrants a little more time to find housing.
"People are ending their stays in shelter on time and then moving to the next destination," he says."For many, that’s either their own apartment — a process facilitated by the nonprofits we work with — a potential host family situation with someone in the community, or in some cases onward travel." The city had ten migrant shelters open through the winter. Because of the cold weather and snowfall in January, the city suspended its length-of-stay policy, which allows individual migrants to stay for two weeks and families with children to stay for 42 days. This led Denver's
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