Westwood Unidos is a coalition of Westwood residents partnering with organizations to make Southwest Denver a healthier place. Westwood Unidos' unique approach trains resident leaders to advocate for equitable resources, to organize their neighbors, and to increase...
MHC Community Member Highlight
Oscar Torres, Community Member The chicken and the egg dilemma is very vivid for me. Two months after signing my lease in Aurora, I was hired at a nonprofit organization all the way in Lakewood. Ever since, my hour and a half (each way) commute started. Waking up at...
MHC Updates
Affordable Housing & Community Facilities During the Building Station Areas that Build Community event in February, Denver Shared Spaces and Mile High Connects released a report looking at a handful of station areas in our prioritized geographies and the community...
MHC Partner Highlight
New Belgium Family Foundation Recently, MHC talked with Lucy Cantwell at the New Belgium Family Foundation, funding partner of MHC. Describe the NBFF's role in MHC. What do you see as your biggest contribution to MHC and its work? I would describe our role as...
Building Stations Areas that Build Community
Last week during the Building Station Areas that Build Community event, Denver Shared Spaces and Mile High Connects released a report looking at a handful of station areas in our prioritized geographies and the community benefits they may have to offer to the...
New Report Examines Efforts to Link Residents to Jobs at Three Local TOD Project Sites
In 2015 Mile High Connects focused much of its jobs-related work on exploring place-based community workforce development strategies. One of our projects, funded by a grant from JP Morgan Chase Foundation explored the linking of local residents with construction...
Report: Metro Denver Transit Station Evaluations
Graduate students from the University of Colorado at Denver's Masters of Urban and Regional Planning Program recently finalized a report on Metro Denver's transit area stations, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the stations. "This report evaluates the design...
Report: First & Last Mile – Funding Needs And Priorities For Connecting People to Transit
The buildout of FasTracks, a multi-billion dollar expansion of public transit throughout metro Denver, has highlighted major challenges that low-income riders face when attempting to access the transit system. Many transit station areas have missing or inadequate...
Enterprise Community Partners – Creating Opportunity for Low-Income People Through Affordable Housing
The Denver region’s economy has been booming for many years, but a significant portion of the population is increasingly left behind. Across the seven county Denver metro region, there are over 175,000 low-income households experiencing housing insecurity: over 6,300...
The Buck Foundation
In Denver, it is illegal for homeless residents to sleep or sit on downtown sidewalks, or to use any form of shelter from the cold or sun other than their clothing. In Denver, because of new laws like the Urban Camping Ban, city officials are treating homelessness as...