Colorado's first rural complex for the homeless opens at full capacity

CANON CITY -- A homeless 40-year-old mother of two young children had tears slipping down her face the first day she walked into her new apartment.

"It's the nicest place I have ever lived," said Tanya Reese, one of the new residents at Journey Home, an apartment complex for the homeless which opened last month. "I can afford it -- the stress is off me -- and I don't feel defeated any more."

Located at 250 Justice Center Road, the $7 million 30-unit complex, comprised of 22 one-bedroom apartments and eight two-bedroom apartments, is the first homeless housing complex built in a rural Colorado community.

"In 72 hours we filled all the apartments," said Dee Dee Clement, director of Loaves & Fishes ministry which oversees the apartment complex as well as the homeless shelter and food bank across the street from it. "I don't know that we would ever get another one, but I could easily fill another 30 unit complex."

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