An audit of Denver’s shelter system and how much the city is actually spending on housing the homeless is in full swing, according to the Denver Auditor’s Office, which hopes to have things wrapped up by late July or early August.
“I don’t know if they’ve ever been audited. I know they haven’t been audited since I’ve been the auditor,” says Tim O’Brien, who was elected to the independent post in 2015. “One of the biggest questions is, how much are we spending on it?”
Last week, the City of Denver made headlines after it was revealed during a Denver City Council Safety, Housing, Education and Homelessness committee meeting focusing on House1000 financials that officials had only spent $10.3 million of the $46 million they expected to spend on the homeless — when council had already approved more than $110 million in expenditures.