Nov. 29, 2022 update: Warren Village announced Nov. 29 that it received a $26 million award from the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA). The funds will be used to "support over half of the construction costs of 89 affordable housing units and an education campus, called ‘Warren Village III at Alameda,'" the organization announced.
Warren Village started in 1974. The Denver-based nonprofit helps single-parent and low-income families achieve financial independence and “economic self-sufficiency.”
“The Warren Village community is elated to receive news of this award," Warren Village's president and CEO Ethan Hemming said in a news release. "We have recognized the increase in demand for more affordable housing and supportive services for single-parent families in our community for the last six years. So based on our findings, the development of Warren Village III at Alameda, is a crucial next step towards growing the current capacity for our much needed services."
According to the nonprofit, Warren Village III at Alameda — the organization's third facility in Denver — "will be the state’s first-ever intentional supportive housing for single-parent families." The new campus will include apartments as well as an early learning center, playgrounds, college and workforce training classrooms and a community garden.
Our previous coverage of Warren Village published in January of 2021. You can read that story below.
DENVER — For nearly 50 years, Denver nonprofit Warren Village has been helping single-parent and low-income families achieve financial independence and “economic self-sufficiency.”
It’s a tall task, one that has been made harder by the pandemic, which has disproportionately affected lower-income individuals and those experiencing homelessness.
“The goal, really, is bringing in people who are homeless or unstably housed and providing them first with safe and affordable housing, and stacking on top of that supportive services for adults which really is about college attainment or workforce certification attainment,” said Ethan Hemming, President and CEO of Warren Village. “And while they’re working on that, finding supportive care and education for their littlest kids, from zero to five [years old].”
Hemming said the COVID-19 pandemic has “dramatically changed” how Warren Village operates.
“And of course it’s changed the circumstances that our residents are living in,” he continued, “and particularly that of our alumni—those who have left us—how they have been living has been dramatically affected.”
Warren Village staff said that because of the challenges presented by the pandemic, residents are staying 6-12 months longer than normally expected.
