JUST IN: New Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is declaring an emergency to combat growing homelessness.
Less than 24 hours after being sworn in, new Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said he was declaring an emergency to combat
Johnston said the goal of the emergency declaration is to get 1,000 people access to housing by the end of the year.Johnston made the announcement a little after 9 a.m. Tuesday and is providing more detail on the plan during his remarks. Johnston made the bold promise to end street homelessness in the city in his first four-year term in office. The primary mechanism then-candidate Johnston said he would employ to achieve that was “micro-communities” of tiny homes.
A major expansion of the nonprofit Colorado Village Collaborative’s tiny home village model, Johnston’s communities would have 10 to 20 tiny homes, community bathrooms and kitchen facilities and space for onsite mental health and housing support services. Johnston was eyeing public land for the communities but did provide any specific locations while on the campaign trail.
Candidate Johnston projected it would cost $35 million to build the 1,400 tiny homes necessary to end street homelessness, that’s a total that did not include the cost of staffing and services. Homelessness service providers were skeptical of that total and other critics wondered if Johnston was earmarking too much of the city’s funding around homelessness for what is supposed to be a short-term solution while more permanent supportive housing is built.
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