Denver's Colfax Avenue, once "America's longest, wickedest street," is gentrifying. However, once it begins to rain, as it has done here a lot lately, you quickly realize just how many homeless people and people on the edge exist on this street. Walking from work to the Light Rail train one rainy night last week, I saw countless street people huddling under awnings, in doorways, on sheltered ledges, almost everywhere they could escape the elements. It is a sad commentary that so many people have to fend for themselves on the street like that, while millennials and yuppies eat, drink, and amuse themselves just a few feet away. Is this a case of just the way it is, and always will be, or can this all be changed? Greater minds than mine will have to figure that one out. I wonder how Texas Governor Rick Perry would solve all this?
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