After ten years on the streets, Mark Montes is finally safe at home.
heard about a new sheltering option coming to Denver: a safe-camping site that would be opening at a church in the Uptown neighborhood the next month.
"He started as kind of 'Eh, I'll give it a go' to 'Oh my gosh, this was so helpful and so needed, and I want everyone to be able to feel the way I feel right now,'" says Cuica Montoya, the Safe Outdoor Space program director for the CVC. Montoya has been working on the Denver safe-camping site program from the start.Conor McCormick-Cavanagh
"Housing is a huge part of health care. It’s really hard to take care of your health when you don’t have the basic access to the resources and services you need to be well," Montoya notes. Doctors diagnosed Montes, a longtime smoker, with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aka COPD, and diabetes. Rent for the unit is $1,000 a month, and a housing voucher covers rent and utilities. Montes also gets food stamps, which he uses for grocery shopping.
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