YIMBY News for 10/13

[Eric Budd]

His Cheyenne ancestors were pushed out of Colorado in the 1800s. Now he’s among the leaders of Colorado’s Indigenous land back movement

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.58. bike path, development, downtown, growth, house, housing, project, real estate, urban, walk

His Cheyenne ancestors were pushed out of Colorado in the 1800s. Now he’s among the leaders of Colorado’s Indigenous land back movement *By* *Paolo Zialcita* Listen to an audio version of this story: Rick Williams doesn’t just want your land acknowledgement. You’ve probably heard them at meetings or graduations. The idea is to take a few short minutes to acknowledge the land where you’re sitting was once home to Native tribes before white settlers came and built cities on top of it. Williams, an Oglala Lakota citizen with Cheyenne ancestry, is asked to do them a lot. Sometimes, he even does. I

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From Brooklyn to Beulah, hippie beginnings to golden years, a retired couple returns to van life

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.33. house, housing, hud, income, real estate, rent, urban, walk

In July of 1976, 20-year-old Dave Van Manen and 17-year-old Helene Hilt, Brooklyn-grown and infused with young love and impeccable harmony, got married, packed everything they could into an old blue Chevy van and made good on their longing to ditch the big city and chase a life out West. “We were kind of hippies,” Dave says, “without the drugs.” Nearly a half-century later, they’re once again living out of their van. After a mostly idyllic few decades raising two kids, shaping their harmonies into children’s music and embracing a variety of work in the tiny Colorado hamlet of Beulah, the Van M

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Denver’s plan to end tent homelessness with hotel shelters is shrinking again

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.16. house, housing, urban

Three Denver hotels that were repurposed into homeless shelters are transitioning to new management and a fourth is closing, signs that the city’s plan to end tent homelessness is in flux. Denver’s Department of Housing Stability is using four former hotels — down by about half from the height of the city’s hotel-shelter program — that house people who were living on the streets or in nightly shelters and, ideally, are headed toward permanent housing. Those are: - A former Best Western, also near Interstate 70 and Quebec, now called the Stone Creek Shelter. The shelter has been run by the Salv

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