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“This is the open door to permanent housing for every person that walks through the door, whether they stay here for the rest of their life, or they are helped to move to some different housing.”
KUNC Alison Perkins, 51, sits on the new couch in her apartment at Mason Place. Perkins lived on the streets for two years before moving into the building in March. Housing insecurity and homelessness were growing issues even before the pandemic, due to Colorado’s population and high cost of living. A supportive housing project in Fort Collins is changing what it looks like to get people housed. Alison Perkins, 51, had gotten used to sleeping outside in freezing cold temperatures after she lost her home due to financial and personal problems two years ago. Each day was a struggle to surviv...
Fort Collins, Loveland Crews Respond to Apartment Fire Poudre Fire Authority and Loveland Fire Rescue responded to an apartment fire near Harmony Road on Tuesday, February 2. Poudre Fire first tweeted about the incident at 5080 Fossil Blvd. in Fort Collins just after 9 a.m. The Redtail Ponds apartment building is a Permanent Supportive Housing community in south Fort Collins, 'designed to meet the special housing needs of formerly homeless individuals with disabilities and formerly homeless veterans.' The fire was in a unit on the fourth floor, which was the only apartment damaged, and the...