We build community. Housing is our platform, rather than our highest outcome.
But housing matters. For people healing from homelessness, it matters even more how it’s done.
Three Connected Challenges
Homelessness
Over half a million Americans go homeless on a single night in the United States, and over four thousand in Denver. Thousands more face severe housing uncertainty.
(un)Affordability
Denver rents increased 85% in the past decade and 15% in the past year. An average-priced 2-bedroom apartment in Denver requires an annual salary of $88k.
Isolation
As society fragments, many of us do not experience connecting bonds of community within the places where we live. For those on the edge, this can be devastating.
More than a roof and walls… with our neighbors, we can reweave a fabric of community
in which all can thrive. Children can grow up with a different trajectory. How?
Three Essential Elements
Healing-Centered
Trauma is both a cause and an effect of homelessness. We nurture communities that are welcoming, safe, and stable. Residents heal in a shared culture of caring.
Liberating
Our communities include a rich array of services in support of people working toward their own aspirations. Our residents’ gifts are the drivers of transformation.
Peacemaking
Our faith-language term for this is Shalom—personal and social flourishing. Residents become neighbors and friends. Challenges are shared and success is interwoven.
“When we do succeed in creating compassionate community for those whose experience has been chronic stress, they… create that experience for others. They become the sanctuary they have newly experienced.”
—Fr. Greg Boyle
“Affordable housing becomes a platform for delivering other social services and promoting community in ways that go far beyond simply providing a roof over one’s head.”