'We want to focus on climate, we want to focus on childcare, we want to focus on transit.'
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Paying for hotel rooms, bus tickets, food and other services for migrants has cost Denver more than $51 million during Johnston's first year in office. However, the number of migrants coming to Denver has dropped off dramatically since June because of new, stricter border policies and a reduction in shelter time in Denver, giving Johnston's administration some breathing room during the summer. The city is no longer using hotels to house migrants, pointing to a reduction in arrivals.
Just look back to a year ago, when there were literally hospitals people couldn't get in and out of because there was a ring of encampments, or because they were surrounded by three or four blocks of encampments, people dying on the streets in record numbers, and folks that didn't feel safe to come downtown or bring their family downtown.
It's a good example of how we try to both build the best possible plan, listen to people's feedback and then implement the plan and learn as you go. The year-to-year operating cost is not going to be super expensive. In fact, what we know is that these reduce our total costs long-term, because when we have people in encampments, you have the cost of 911 calls, you have the cost of sweeps, you have jail time, you have people dying on the streets — all those very serious costs that come with the greater safety risks of being out in the street.We think it's entirely sustainable.
But we're not looking right now to new micro-communities again. Last year was really the capital and infrastructure part of the project, which is find these sites, stand them up, get them up and running, and then get people moving through them. Now it's really focusing on the programmatic components of how we run really high-quality services at these sites to make the throughput even faster.
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