That’s worked well in Vienna and Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

It depends on what their goal is.if it's just to give people temporary shelter for 6 months or so it could be an effective halfway house style setup. If it's meant to be permanent housing, the it would be better to have a mix. If it's just about headlines, then throw the most problematic homeless there and let the place get destroyed in 3 months.

There’s 1,300 unsheltered homeless people in Denver. This hotel has near 200 rooms. With space in each room for multiple residents, this can put a major dent into the amount of homeless on the street if it’s used exclusively for that purpose. Plus, other homeless shelters in the Denver/Boulder area are spread crazy thin as it is. It’ll take a massive effort to keep it from going downhill but I think it can be done.

I like what you’re proposing, but I think this idea is just addressing a different goal. Plus there are probably better places than a hotel to integrate homeless into low/medium income society.

We've experienced this where I am, and I agree. Mixed demographic high density is necessary to prevent the stigmatisation that comes from living in designated ghettos.

It does look like they're thinking about these things to sone degree though, thankfully:

40% of the units designated for tenants earning 30% of the Denver area’s median income.

I am very happy that there are efforts to help the homeless though. I hope it is to help, and not just hide away.

I'm personally a fan of Singapore's rules which make 5% of all new development social housing.

It has been pretty successful in my county. The county bought up around seven hotels to house the homeless. Several hundred homeless are housed until they can find more permanent housing.

Too Few of those programs exist. However, I’ve heard they are very competitive and make people jump through lots of hoops.

You're not wrong. One of my old workplaces got demolished to make way for mixed demographic housing, but directly above it (the complex was at the bottom of a cliff) was a McMansion subdivision. Now the apartments going up aren't planned to cost less than $3k when all the apartments around it cost less than $1k.

You would not necessarily need that. There could be a communal kitchen or a cafeteria. This is not meant to be permanent housing