Denver Mayor Mike Johnston speaks about his administration's ambitious bid to combat the city's homelessness problem in an interview with Fox News Digital.
EXCLUSIVE– Denver's homeless problem is so bad that one resident resorted to dumping human excrement left by his office on the steps of City Hall to convey his frustration. Mike Johnston, the Democratic mayor of Denver, may be on the other side of the aisle, but he understood where libertarian think tank owner Jon Caldara was coming from with his viral stunt.
One of the things I love about this job as a nonpartisan mayor and about this task is people from all ends of the spectrum care deeply about this and getting it done,' he said, calling his plan ambitious. 'We were able to bring together really diverse coalitions to work on this.
Reached for comment on Johnston's approach, Caldara scoffed. 'Another ‘housing first’ plan throwing $ at the homeless,' he wrote in a text message, suggesting instead, 'Enforce the camping ban. Arrest people. Clean up streets.' He shared a column he wrote about how Denver should look to Colorado Springs, the second-largest city in the state after the capital, as a model on how to deal with the issue.
Asked to respond to claims Denver doesn't enforce the law, Johnston spokeswoman Jordan Fuja said he was committed to enforcing the law for everyone. 'But we know that law enforcement doesn’t have the capacity to respond to the city’s volume of 911 calls. That’s why his 2024 budget includes funding for the largest police recruit class since 2005, which will put us on the path to meet the full authorized strength of the police department,' she said in a statement.
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