Denver sweeps homeless encampment but offers no shelter this time

 

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Alexandra Holt said she woke up on Tuesday morning to the police asking her to clean up her tent and leave the 8th Avenue and Navajo Street homeless encampment, where she had been living for a month.

“We thought we were going to wake up to housing,” she said.

That wasn’t the case on Tuesday.

For the first time in six months, Denver swept a homeless encampment without offering shelter. Mayor Mike Johnston previously said the city wouldn't do so. 

The situation is yet another stark reminder of the challenges facing Johnston, who has made curbing homelessness in the city his top priority. During his campaign for mayor, Johnston promised to eradicate the problem in his first term in office.

While there had been instances in which homeless people couldn't get inside a shelter following an encampment sweep, it's the first time the Johnston administration cited space limitations as the specific reason for not offering shelter at any one of the city-run or contracted facilities.   




The struggle to house Denver's homeless population is occurring at a time when the Johnston administration also announced a major shift in the city's response to the illegal immigration crisis — extending support for immigrants to six months but with only about 1,000 spaces. The mayor's pivot followed failed attempts to get federal aid and deep cuts to the city's budget, as Denver served a total of nearly 41,000 migrants since the end of 2022. 

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