DENVER — Despite a lack of snowfall in Denver and throughout the metro area, the City of Denver's Department of Housing Stability is changing how unhoused families seek shelter during emergency cold weather.

"First and foremost cold weather shelter poses such a serious danger for people who are unsheltered, and so we're really encouraging people to come inside," Julia Marvin with Denver's Department of Housing Stability (HOST) said.

In the past, during an emergency cold weather activation in Denver, unhoused families would call a crisis hotline and wait to hear back on what their shelter options were.

This year, Marvin said there will be a designated walk-up site where families can go to get a motel voucher, during emergency cold weather.

"We're really committed to ensuring that no f

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