Denver Mayor Mike Johnston celebrated his administration’s progress on some of the city’s biggest challenges during his first year in office on Monday while making a pitch for the first…
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston delivers his first State of the City address at the Paramount Theatre in Denver on July 22, 2024. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston celebrated his administration’s progress on some of the city’s biggest challenges during his first year in office on Monday while making a pitch for the first big initiative of his second — a sales tax increase to tackle affordable housing..
“In these last 12 months, Denver has housed more people faster per capita than any city in America,” he said. “Our work is not done, but our progress is dramatic,” Johnston said of his administration’s two signature programs thus far. “Our successes here have opened up new opportunities for even greater impact in the year ahead. Inside each of these struggles, we see the need for more work to be done.”
One of Johnston’s key focuses since he was still on the campaign trail has been revitalizing downtown and breaking theof visible homelessness and crime, coupled with greatly diminished office worker foot traffic in the wake of the pandemic. In May, Johnston announced plans to expand an obscure special downtown taxing authority that he and supporters project could generate $500 million in new public investment downtown over the coming decade.
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