By Alexander Edwards | Denver Gazette
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston called his response to the city’s homelessness crisis successful, even after data from an annual tally released Wednesday showed the homeless population grew.
The city is on track to spend nearly $155 million on the mayor’s homelessness campaign — $65 million more than anticipated — even as the total number of homeless people in the city actually ballooned from 5,818 last year to 6,539 this year.
And the city saw only 150 fewer “unsheltered” homeless people when compared to last year’s count.