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Nightmare that unfolded after homeless families were given free apartments in chic Denver complex next to hardworking families
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 19, 2026 | Will Potter

Posted on 01/20/2026 3:54:48 AM PST by C19fan

Residents in a trendy apartment building in Denver, Colorado say their peaceful lives turned into a nightmare when homeless families were given free apartments next door.

Owen Johnson, a 25-year-old from Missouri, says he moved into the White Swan apartment building near the city's Congress Park in May with his wife.

But Johnson says their honeymoon period after tying the knot was quickly ruined when a homeless man was given a state housing voucher to move into the apartment next to theirs, and he says it dawned on them the tenant 'was crazy.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: colorado; denver; gettingitgoodandhard; homeless; housing; whovotedforthis

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The Left wants to do this to the neighborhood you worked hard to live in by pushing for so called inclusive zoning. Reminds me what happened in Memphis when Section 8 allowed crime to metastasize from Memphis proper to the suburbs.
1 posted on 01/20/2026 3:54:48 AM PST by C19fan
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I think the media likes to pretend that most of the homeless have just had “bad luck”. They have simply “fallen on hard times”. I think that would be a very small percentage of the homeless.

Most homeless are mentally ill and/or substance abusers. They deserve help, but they should not be around normal people. There should be institutions for them. Not really nice institutions, just places where they can be kept apart from society.


2 posted on 01/20/2026 3:58:32 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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There used to be psychiatric hospitals but those closed down thanks to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. The situation today is far worse than any abuse that happened back then.


3 posted on 01/20/2026 4:00:06 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Vote better.


4 posted on 01/20/2026 4:00:13 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: C19fan

HORRIBLE


5 posted on 01/20/2026 4:02:37 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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It's time, time to stop calling them homeless, they are bums,

And if you insist that homeless is a kinder name, fin, call them homeless bums.

6 posted on 01/20/2026 4:09:34 AM PST by Ikeon (Kindness should be applied until its time not to be kind. )
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To: C19fan

How can you tell which children will grow up to be drug addicts and bums?

Easy, they’re the ones who were raised, likely by mothers, being asked what they want to do, rather than being told what they need to do.

And all the kids eventually want drugs.

Their needs are secondary to their wants. So they become always-needy and can’t take care of themselves. Getting high to fulfill the dopamine pacification system they were raised on.

It’s just bad parenting


7 posted on 01/20/2026 4:18:08 AM PST by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: C19fan

It happens everywhere it’s tried. Progressives don’t care, it’s part of their ‘equity’ dream.


8 posted on 01/20/2026 4:18:18 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: ArcadeQuarters

Exactly!


9 posted on 01/20/2026 4:20:10 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: C19fan

Right. Cuckoo nest was the Three Mile Island for deinstitutionalization. Leftist banged the drum for patient rights. Patients were portrayed as political prisoners. Drugs and community services were supposed to be the solution. It was all a charade to destabilize civil society. The humane thing to do is protect the insane from themselves and others by taking them off the streets. If they were in Canada, they’d be euthanized.


10 posted on 01/20/2026 4:21:03 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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You mean they don't dispense a special sort of wisdom to us ordinary folks?:

Mr. Wendal

11 posted on 01/20/2026 4:23:48 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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Getting high to fulfill the dopamine pacification system they were raised on. It’s just bad parenting

And sometimes they move back into your home at age 32 and stab you to death.

12 posted on 01/20/2026 4:24:51 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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“But Johnson says their honeymoon period after tying the knot was quickly ruined when a homeless man was given a state housing voucher to move into the apartment next to theirs, and he says it dawned on them the tenant ‘was crazy.’”

The tenant is not “crazy”, he’s just ‘down on his luck’, like all homeless people. PLEASE brush-up on you liberal talking points.


13 posted on 01/20/2026 4:41:42 AM PST by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: Ikeon

It’s time, time to stop calling them homeless, they are bums,

And if you insist that homeless is a kinder name, fin, call them homeless bums.
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They are mentally ill.


14 posted on 01/20/2026 4:42:50 AM PST by yldstrk
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>> Most homeless are mentally ill and/or substance abusers.

Wonder how many are mentally ill BECAUSE they’re substance abusers. Many, perhaps most of them, is my guess.


15 posted on 01/20/2026 4:44:08 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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Who cares what they are!? Dope addicts. Alcoholics. Mentally ill. It's all semantics under the euphemistic liberal umbrella "homeless." Fags are now "gay." Adultery is an "affair."

It's all bad and needs to disappear. Build tent cities in the Mojave and give'm a PBJ and bottle of water as their daily meal. You'll be amazed at how fast they get straight.

16 posted on 01/20/2026 5:14:08 AM PST by LouAvul (I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6)
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Shame the (R)N(C) is too worried about being called ‘bad names’ than upholding/defending the Constitution/individual Rights via eliminating the illegal welfare state in ALL its many shapes, matters, forms & types...where THIS “problem” would then no exist.


17 posted on 01/20/2026 5:17:50 AM PST by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: Justa

I know a family where one of the six kids is homeless, but it’s because he’s a paranoid schizophrenic. The other siblings try to help him, but he refuses their help. He won’t take the meds, and he doesn’t trust anyone. He doesn’t mind sleeping on park benches, but he gets arrested for doing that. Anyway, it wasn’t a parenting issue in this particular case. No one knows how to help him anymore. They’ve tried for years. They get him apartments but he doesn’t stay. He seems to be on the move frequently. A vagrant if you will.


18 posted on 01/20/2026 5:24:13 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: C19fan

Not only “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” but WHOREALDO RIVERA’s “reporting”.


19 posted on 01/20/2026 5:27:07 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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The moron landlord is responsible for this .

She thought she was going to make a fast buck renting to homeless at above market rates and guaranteed government check.

The results are predictable. It will take her years to evict these people and she will have to fight zealous homeless advocates every step of the way.

If the place does not burn down down from tweakers cooking meth in the interim

The rest of her tenants are going to go through hell and by the time she evicts the homeless her units are going to be completely ruined.

20 posted on 01/20/2026 5:28:23 AM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.l)
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