(The Center Square) – The city of Denver is consolidating homeless shelters and cutting other city services to reduce expenses amid an ongoing migrant crisis that has cost city taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.
At a Wednesday news conference, Mayor Mike Johnson said the city will close four shelters – one a week over the next month – with individuals moved to other shelters that remain open.
Among the shelters set up to house the flood of migrants were hotels and motels converted to non-congregate settings and paid for by city taxpayers. These shelters will begin to be phased out.
“The reason we’re phasing these out one per week over the next four weeks is we have organized the populations of those hotels to be naturally drawing down,” Johnston said. “As they draw down close to a close, we will consolidate them, and anyone left at that site will move
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