The Depression-era program that built Boulder’s mountain roads — and rebuilt lives

The Depression-era program that built Boulder’s mountain roads — and rebuilt lives

In the late 1920s, the area along Boulder Creek between 9th and 11th streets was called the “jungle section” of Boulder and was referred to by newspaper reporters as “tramp quarters” and a “disgrace to the city.” Homelessness in Boulder is nothing new, but a solution was on the horizon. In Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inaugural address on March 4, 1933, the incoming U.S. president told the American people, “Our greatest task is to put people to work.…