"Once somebody moves in, we actually stick around with them for two years," says Kelmendi, noting that the nonprofit will even jump in and pay rent if there's an emergency.įor Michelle, that means she'll have housing stability support for the next two years, according to Ramsey Ferguson, one of Housing Connector's two Denver-based employees.
The company says that it operates at about a 96.5 percent success and retention rate, partly because of its commitment to clients. A critical piece of this solution is the back-end technology and customer-facing platform to manage inventory in real time and make these units accessible. The Metro Denver Homeless Initiative had identified Housing Connector's services as a real need in this city, Kelmendi adds: "My sense is that this type of service was attempted at individual agencies, but a community-wide effort had not been pursued. "Our vision is that there shouldn't be any units in our community open if we have people in need of housing," says Shkëlqim Kelmendi, executive director of Housing Connector, which works with landlords, potential renters and service providers to ensure that issues like credit scores and criminal history don't prevent someone from securing housing. I guess God is guiding us."Īctually, the guide was Housing Connector, a Seattle-based nonprofit that launched in late 2019 and, after helping house 2,500 people in that city, recently expanded into Denver. "It's really nice.I don't know how I got a place in this building.
They put me on a housing list, and I was like first on the list to get into the place," says Michelle, who spent two weeks in the emergency shelter before she and her daughter moved into a two-bedroom apartment in the Globeville area.
She and her daughter quickly left for Denver, where they linked up with SafeHouse Denver, which provides emergency shelter for domestic-violence victims and their children.
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But he was doing a lot of alcohol and drugs, so I had to escape from that," says Michelle, who asked that her full name not be used. After moving from Florida to Alamosa, Michelle and her sixteen-year-old daughter realized that they had to get away from Michelle's husband.
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