Óscar A. Contreras is a Murrow-nominated journalist who has been writing for the E.W. Scripps Company since January 2014.
DENVER — Exemplifying the way Denverites came together to help address an affordable housing crisis exacerbated by the arrival of thousands of immigrants from the southern border escaping violence last winter, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston in his first State of the City address touted the city’s response to both crises as he laid out the work his administration will do in the coming year to respond to a “larger ecosystem” that needs attention.
As of Monday, Johnston said, Denver had moved more than 1,600 people off the streets and into transitional housing, saying his administration “has housed more people faster per capita than any city in America.” Praising “the country’s first Asylum-Seekers Program,” Johnston also highlighted how Denver found a new path to get people “caught in a broken federal immigration system” to work so they can provide for their families as they sought a new beginning in a different country, with different rules and different customs to the ones they are used to.
“The challenges I saw were not just homelessness, but a larger ecosystem that needed attention,” the mayor said, as he highlighted public safety, the need to build community and revitalize a struggling downtown as priorities for the year ahead. Arguing that the best way to fight crime is to build trust, the city will also start what Johnston called “trust patrols” — police officers who will walk into businesses or a rec center or a park to talk to people and find out what’s working, what isn’t, and what the city could be doing better.
Calling downtown Denver “the living room for every Denverite and the playground for every Coloradan,” Johnston once again stressed the need to revitalize the downtown area, which saw a substantial loss of foot traffic at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic which has struggled to recover more than four years later.
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