Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s Homeless Initiative Not Successful
Cristal M Clark
If you are a longtime Denverite you know that our current homeless issues are substantial, not unlike the rest of the country however. You would also know that these homeless are not the same type as they were lets say 10 or so years ago. No, the current homeless can become quite violent and belligerent at times which makes for an unsafe city overall on top of the crime and drugs.
Last year Denver Mayor Mike Johnston created a homeless initiative that happens to come with a fairly huge price tag. Now I was never a fan of it honestly and I have been quite vocal about that because it in no way addressed the issues that are causing the homeless problems.
The leaders running the homeless initiative said that the city spent $10.3 million on the initiative last year, $35 million less than they were approved for. What was not used was carried over into this year. The mayor’s budget called for $39 million for hotels, micro-communities, and rapid rehousing for 2024. When combined with the money carried over from last year, it means spending on homelessness could top $75 million.
The mayor reached his goal of getting 1,000 people off the streets last year and wants to help another 1,000 people this year. The problem is and I have stated this all along, it is easy for the city to move people indoors, ensuring their long-term success and creating contributors of society, well that is not so easy.
Now we are looking at 73% failure rate which is only going to go higher and that is because the mayor and his leaders running the homeless initiative rushed to the table to prove a point whilst failing to truly understand the problems that the homeless face.
The answer here is easy it truly is, if the mayor would but some leadership in place that understands how to properly address the issues, but he lacks the wherewithal to do that as he has ever so graciously proven with his 73% failure rate.
To ensure the success of this program you must approach it with zero fucking agenda in mind for each individual situation. Sure, it is easy to group all of the homeless together as one single group, but it is not that simple. So, you want to house them all, but the bigger question is, should you?
We have a large criminal element swirled into our homeless issues, we have those that are mentally unstable and ill suited to become contributing members of society, we have those who have health issues and, in some cases, along with those issues, mental issues, then we have some that for whatever reason just do not want to work and who want to be free of from the constraints of having a 9-5, a secure home etc. Then have those that are addicted. The list goes on and on here but you get the point. We should not house them all.
We have three simple fixes:
Jail those who want to commit crimes
Institutionalize those that need mental health help or round the clock care
Help those that truly want to be helped.
You cannot just say, let us give them housing and a universal allowance, then let in illegal immigrants and give them the same thing, you create a much larger problem without ever so much as touching all of the unique little issues that are contributing to the overall problems. Hence you burden society.
Mayor Mike Johnston and his team went into this in such a careless, halfhearted manner is truly makes me wonder if they truly care or, if they are just doing this for so, so that they can say they tried when in reality all they did was spend money and not really try.
Cristal M Clark
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