Residents Fired Up About Proposed Safe Homeless Camp Space At Denver Coliseum

From CBS Denver:

By Kati Weis

July 21, 2020

DENVER (CBS4) – Neighbors in the Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea neighborhoods, or the GES, are upset about a proposal to make the Denver Coliseum parking lot a designated homeless camping space. It’s just one more thing for the residents, who say the existing homeless shelters set up at the Coliseum and the Education Hall of the National Western Complex are causing a lot of problems in their community.

“When is it going to stop? When can we have a normal life?” Sandra Ruiz Parilla, a resident of the GES for four years, asked.

Ruiz Parilla says residents have been living in fear since the mass homeless shelters opened up at the start of the pandemic. She says neighbors have seen human excrement in their home alleys, witnessed people shooting up at their bus stops, and have been harassed.

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