BREAKING: Mayor Mike Johnston made the announcement at a Tuesday morning news conference, less than 24 hours after he was sworn in as Denver’s 46th mayor, setting the goal to house 1,000 unhoused people by end of year.
Johnston made the announcement at a Tuesday morning news conference, less than 24 hours after he was sworn in as Denver’s 46th mayor. He set a goal to house 1,000 unhoused people by end of this year.A state of local emergency gives city and county officials more resources to combat the issue. It also allows the city, as well as its residents and businesses, to apply for state and federal government funding.
Johnston's plan also includes a"78-neighborhood tour" through local communities to identify their role in housing the unhoused. The mayor called his plan an"all-of-the-above approach." "We're going to work hard in the first year to show a real change," he said."And I think if we're successful we may see it even earlier than that. [...] I think we have some real ambitious plans to get to work on this very quickly so we can bring change quite quickly because that's what people are ready for."
A Denver7 investigation found that, In 2022, Denver budgeted $152,306,150 for housing and homelessness. That number grew to $180,948,669 for 2023, a 19% increase.A point-in-time survey in January 2022, meanwhile, counted 4,794 people living on Denver’s streets – a 44% increase over the results of the same survey, which captures a one-night snapshot of homeless in cities, five years earlier.
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