Denver, CO \u2013 Under the hardline stance of Mayor Michael Hancock, Denver continues to sweep unhoused encampments\u2014more than 80 this year alone\u2014ignoring countless requests from unhoused residents and their advocates to stop, and refusing to negotiate any alternatives. Outside the\u00a0Four Winds American Indian Council\u00a0building in the Baker neighborhood, that cycle continued when, despite multiple attempts by Four Winds and other advocates to find some common ground and a different solution, the city swept a predominantly Indigenous encampment on August 31.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of unfortunate that the Mayor decided that he\u2019s going to say that [the encampment] is unsafe and unclean without even being here, without even visiting and seeing it first-hand and being willing to sit down with our relatives and hear their stories and even break bread with them or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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