Urban Peak announces a new innovative, life-saving campus

With the recent investment from the city of Denver of $413,000 to help construct a new shelter for youth experiencing homelessness, Urban Peak has shared new details on their upcoming project that will help provide housing and supportive services to more than 135 young people.

Urban Peak is redeveloping an aging and overcrowded shelter into a vibrant, thriving campus to address the complex needs of youth experiencing homelessness. A new building will replace our current shelter to offer integrated services and progressively independent levels of housing for youth.

For the first time, Urban Peak will provide transitional space for youth between the stabilization of a shelter bed and long-term, independent housing that can be unaffordable or plagued by long waiting lists.

The Mothership is designed to address youths' emerging needs as they move from finding stability, building independent living skills and breaking out of the system of subsidized housing.

Urban Peak partnered with Shopworks Architecture, a local firm with expertise around affordable housing and trauma-in-formed design, as well as the University of Denver, to better understand how a new campus could meet the needs of youth and staff. Based on feedback from current youth and staff, the Shelter will incorporate spaces where youth feel valued, nurtured, housed, and supported so that they can break the cycle of homelessness.