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Denver has been looking to longtime city liaison Steve Charbonneau to negotiate agreements between residents and homeless micro-community providers.

The Denver-based nonprofit will offer health-care services for Mayor Mike Johnston's House1000 through its HOP mobile clinic.

Mayor Mike Johnston has been asking city department officials to send him their best and brightest for one last "Hail Mary" at his House1000 initiative.

The mayor's senior homelessness advisor spoke to Westword about the decision to delay a contract with his former employer, Colorado Village Collaborative.

Residents and former staffers at Colorado Village Collaborative sites in Denver say the city's new micro-community manager is "awful" and "disorganized."

Mayor Johnston has enlisted the help of Housing Connector, a nonprofit, to find permanent living spaces for Denver's homeless and meet his House1000 goal.

The Krisana Group, a real-estate developer based in Centennial, has pulled out of its contract to turn 1380 South Birch Street into a micro-community.

People living in Denver's Holly Hills area are happy Mayor Mike Johnston nixed plans for an incoming micro-community, but their fight is not yet over.

The city has broken ground on four of Mayor Johnston's micro-communities, which are central to his House1000 plan to shelter 1,000 homeless people by 2024.

"The urgency with which you've tackled this problem is extraordinary, and we're behind you in this. Denver gives me hope right now."