The sun blazed like summer, but the breeze hinted at fall as the Colorado Springs Homeless Union held a cleanup event at Dorchester Park on Sept. 14. The Homeless Union has formally adopted a stretch of the Pikes Peak Greenway trail from Dorchester Park to the America the Beautiful Park and hosts monthly cleanup events […]
Amy’s life has changed dramatically this summer. After years of homelessness and housing insecurity, she got her own apartment on the Westside of Colorado Springs. Just weeks after moving into her own home, she started working at the Circle K right down the road from her new place. She also got new dentures that, unlike […]
There is a grace to Laura that I can’t seem to capture in a picture, though I tried. I had her stand in different corners of her motel room, where the sunshine came through the curtained windows, attempting to catch her in the right angle of light to show you, readers, what I saw. Laura […]
This is the first installment in the “All our Neighbors” series about the Colorado Springs Homeless Union, its advocacy work and the personal stories of some of its members. Public conversations about homelessness should include people with lived experience. That’s a foundational premise of the Colorado Springs Homeless Union. Another core conviction, repeated often by […]
