Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced the city will close four shelters over the course of a month to consolidate resources and save the city $60 million.
One immigrant shelter will close per week, with the goal of reducing the city’s budget deficit and consolidating shelters as the immigrant surge has slowed down in the city.
“We knew that as a result of federal inaction on immigration and the resulting budget crisis, there were two important steps we needed to take,” Johnston said at a press conference Wednesday. “One was to adjust the city’s budgets to help support these needs, and the second was to reduce the overall cost of our migrant program.”
The city projected that dealing with the crisis would cost the city $180 million, but the closures will reduce that number by a third.
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