Racial Inequities: Black Coloradans often face barriers in homeownership

the applicants visited properties, landlords denied their applications. is happened over and over again.

the time ve years ago. “After that, we did the application online and sent it in without them being able to see the person.”

To keep up with the county’s growing population, Weekly is going to add an additional crime analyst, staying within the current budget. e analysts will look at the calls for service that come in, reports the deputies take and by using heat maps, will be able to identify where crime is likely to occur and provide that information to the deputies.

From Weekly’s perspective, every deputy sheri that is out on the street should be a pattern crimes deputy.

BY NINA JOSS AND HALEY LENA NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM; HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A few years ago, Aurora Warms the Night, an Aurora-based nonpro t serving people who need housing, ran into a challenge when assisting its Black clients in applying for apartments. When

So the team decided to take a di erent approach, sending in White volunteers to check out the apartments rst.

“I would send one of our employees or people that were White to look at the apartment — to get the pricing, get everything, to make sure everything was available,” said Brian Arnold, who was executive director of the group at

Once the application got approved, the team at Aurora Warms the Night would let the real estate agents see the client was Black. Arnold said this process worked almost every time and became the organization’s own way of making a dent in the discrimination that people of color may face, but nd