Denver Opens First Affordable Housing Complex for People with Brain Injuries

Touting it as a first-of-its-kind facility, on Wednesday the City of Denver helped open a $25 million, 72-unit affordable-housing complex on East Colfax built for people with traumatic brain injuries that had been in the works for nearly half a decade.

A rare combination of housing and clinical services, Valor on the Fax was constructed by Brothers Redevelopment Inc. through a partnership with the Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado, the city, Shopworks, the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, Enterprise Financial and Calcon Constructors.

The group ultimately had a vision of what affordable housing and clinical services could look like in the Mile High City, regardless of where the combined space was located or how things looked in the area before developers and construction crews…