As Denver, Colorado's homelessness crisis continues to worsen, the city's newly sworn-in mayor is planning an aggressive crackdown on the issue.
Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston took office on July 17, overseeing a city that saw a 13% increase in overall homelessness and a 33% increase in the unsheltered homeless population from 2020 to 2022.Johnston, who declared a state of emergency for homelessness on his second day in office, plans to combat the spikes starting with housing unsheltered homeless people, or those who regularly sleep in cars, parks, streets, and other spaces not fit for human habitation, within months.
In a city with about 1,500 unsheltered homeless people, Johnston vowed to find housing for 1,000 of them by the end of 2023 through several different means. However, many homeless advocates say that while it could be easy to make the numbers work on paper, some homeless people are not in the proper mental or personal state to function in a sheltered environment. Some prefer to stay on the streets, or live reclusively, or would not sign up for permanent housing if it meant giving up alcohol or drug addictions as a part of the rules for living at a given location.
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