• The Coalition opens Forest Manor, in Aurora, its first large-scale affordable housing community (84 apartments) with supportive services.
• The Coalition is one of nine organizations around the country chosen by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to establish a Homeless Families Program.
• The Coalition’s Stout Street Clinic earns a service award from The Colorado Trust for “exemplary commitment to serving the people of Colorado.”
• The Coalition establishes Metro Denver Homeless Families Program, one of nine national demonstration programs funded by HUD and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It is the first regional effort to end homelessness for families.
• Monsignor Charles Woodrich dies. “Father Woody”, as he was known throughout Denver, was a tireless advocate for the city’s poor and homeless.
• The Coalition begins offering mental health care through the federally funded Project for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program.
• The Coalition begins participating on a Lowry Housing Committee in anticipation of closure of the Lowry Air Force Base.
• Don Parsons becomes the Coalition’s third Board President.
• Governor Roy Romer signs a resolution declaring HOPE Week (Homeless Organizations for Public Education), a campaign initiated by the Coalition.
• The Quigg Newton Family Health Center opens; a collaborative project involving the Coalition, Denver Health and the Denver Housing Authority.
• The Coalition convenes a Substance Abuse Task Force.
• Mary Helen Sandoval becomes the Coalition’s fourth Board President.
• Lowry Air Force Base is decommissioned and closed. The local area reuse plan allows for 87 units for homeless families and 86 for homeless individuals.
• The Coalition establishes the Inclusive Communities Task Force to address neighborhood opposition to housing for the homeless.
• The Coalition develops the Rural Initiatives Program with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide services to rural communities in Colorado.
• The Coalition expands efforts to develop affordable and supportive housing with the opening of Xenia Manor, 51 apartment homes in east Denver.
• The Coalition establishes the Bridges Program at Stout Street Clinic for homeless individuals with severe and persistent mental illness in collaboration with the Mental Health Center of Denver.