South Metro Housing Options opens voucher waitlists

waitlist this month — for one day only.

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

For the rst time in several years, South Metro Housing Options will open its housing choice voucher

It will also open a waitlist for two weeks for one-bedroom apartments at Sierra Vista Apartments in unincorporated Arapahoe County.

SMHO is a public housing author-

Calls to end detention centers

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Along a residential road in Aurora sits a home that aims to be a place of peace for people released from the nearby immigration detention center.

Casa de Paz, meaning “House of Peace” in Spanish, is a nonpro t that o ers free resources and services to those leaving the Aurora-based U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center.

e ICE facility is operated by the GEO Group, which NPR reported is one of the nation’s largest for-pro t prison operators.

In February 2023, the company — which describes itself, in part, as housing for families, students, professionals, seniors and disabled adults.

Applicants may be from any jurisdiction, must be 18 years old or older and must have a valid email address, according to SMHO.

At least one member in a household that receives a voucher must be a legal resident of the United States.

Two waitlists

Housing choice vouchers, which are federally funded, subsidize rent and allow recipients to choose

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