Welcome back to this weekly meeting of the Community Planning and Housing Committee with Denver City Council.

Your community planning and housing committee starts now.

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Um, let's get started with rounds of introductions.

I'm Councilwoman Amanda Sanval, president of Denver City Council in Northwest Denver, and I'll start to my left.

Good afternoon.

Uh Councilman Watson, representing the fine district nine.

Good afternoon, Amanda.

So you're district five.

Laura Albitres, Lucky District 7.

Jamie Torres was number district three.

All right, so we have a great agenda in front of us today.

And I'll pass it over to our um partners at host.

Good afternoon, Jeff Kasitsky, Deputy Director for Shelter and Stability at host.

Uh Pauly Kyle, uh government affairs officer with host.

Um thank you very much.

This is again sort of part of our series of presentation of contracts to try to present things to the council in a more organized manner.

As with the congregate shelter, uh, we do not have any action items today.

The contracts will be uh going before you, I think, through a consent agenda sometime in late November, early December, but are going to present today on all of the um all-in-mile high uh non-congregate shelter sites as well as the micro-communities.

I just want to be clear this does not include the Tamarek, uh, which will be presented as part of our um suite of uh family uh serving contracts, which I believe we're presenting in December.

Okay, at the end of this month.

End of this month, my apologies.

Um today we'll be talking about adult non-congregate shelter.

It's the operation of two congregate hotel-based adult shelters uh with 471 units for a total of approximately 16.5 million.

This does not include the Comfort Inn, which we'll be presenting separately because that con that site is closing at the end of March and is not going to be under a performance-based contract and is very short term.

Um, and then the other, of course, are the micro-communities of five tiny home-based micro-communities with 242 units for a total of about 7.2 million, and one of those sites is closing in June, uh, which we'll talk about in a bit.

Uh so overall, 713 units total.

Um, 49 of those are ADA units.

Um, average length of stay in all of the sites is uh in 2024 was 138 days, uh, with 356 positive exits uh into uh stable housing or permanent housing out of the system.

Um, total cost um of these contracts is 23, uh 688 with an average cost of 93 uh per person per night.

And I want to thank uh Councilwoman Elfie Drez for requesting that we present this information in more of a table form, which you all have in front of you that'll I think make the presentation go a little bit quickly.

Um, as you see on the slide up there, uh you've seen this multiple times.

Uh non-congregate shelters fit into the system as part of our sheltering options that we have available for people experiencing homelessness.

Uh, there are also for many people a gateway to a variety of services that are available through the city.

It's oftentimes where they'll be assessed for coordinated entry uh for housing and get access to other services.

Um really quickly, the role of non-congregate shelter and my microcommunities is to provide like the rest of our shelters uh media low barrier access to life-saving shelter.

Um these shelters all have services available on site, including specialized assistance focused on helping people uh move beyond homelessness, uh, and they are provided um by our city partners or city contractors.

Wanted to talk about the access to non-congregate and microcommunities.

People always wonder, well, how do I get into one of these?

The number one priority for getting access is through shelter through any kind of special situation that occurs, a fire in another shelter, God forbid, or a flood in one of our shelters, or the closure of a shelter.

Those always are top priority when there's emergency situations.

But in our normal operations, that does not happen very often.