Denver’s homeless slam city’s proposed $12,000 no-strings-attached cash to get them off the streets

Denver’s homeless population slammed the city’s proposal to give them $12,000 in no-strings-attached cash to help them get off the streets, saying they either don’t want it or had no idea they could apply for the handout.

The city has allocated $2million from the American Rescue Plan Act to fund the program, which will be run by the Denver Basic Income Project to mainly get women, transgender and non-binary people housed.

But the scheme, which was announced two weeks ago, appears not to have made much headway in reaching the local homeless community, with Kim Richmond and her daughter, Erika, claiming […]

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