It’s taken the Johnston administration almost a year to arrive at that budget estimate, much to the chagrin of some City Council members.
Denver Department of Public Health and Environment investigator Nathan Rosenberg, left, and Daniel Rahe, an outreach coordinator with the Department of Housing Stability load a bus with unhoused people’s belongings at a homeless encampment along East 18th Avenue and North Marion Street in Denver on Thursday Dec. 21, 2023. The encampment was shut down and all the residents there were moved into a hotel shelter as part of Mayor Mike Johnston’s All in Mile High initiative.
“If we serve 2,000 people, which is what we anticipate serving, that is about a per-person cost of $28,750 per person. And this includes services, the temporary housing the wraparound supports,” Jamie Rife, executive director of the city’s— then called House 1,000 — on his second day in office on July 18.
By her math, Denver is on pace to spend close to $155 million on the program before the end of the year. Stephanie Adams, the city’s deputy chief financial officer, told Sawyer she believes the total is slightly lower, but acknowledged the councilwoman’s estimate was close.After the meeting, city officials confirmed to The Denver Post that, since the launch of All In Mile High last July, Denver had spent $56.3 million as of last month, which included $41.8 million in one-time costs and $14.
All told, Denver is projecting it will have spent $154.8 million on the mayor’s homelessness initiative by the end of 2024.A majority of this year’s one-time costs for the homelessness program — 86% — will be covered by federal dollars granted to the city, much of it related to COVID-19 pandemic support, according to Tuesday’s presentation.
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