In the spring, while Chicago and New York were announcing new and stricter time limits for staying in shelters, Denver proposed almost the opposite: full and continuous support for six months, the time it takes to get approval for an asylum application and obtain a work permit.
Faced with silence from the federal government and a municipal expenditure of $72 million since the end of 2022, Mayor Mike Johnston and his team decided that something had to change.
Sarah Plastino, director of the new program, explains that the goal of the program came from the large number of people leaving shelters and entering the community without appropriate support.
Now, with the new program in operation since late June, Denver is a different place, accommodating 865 beneficiaries, including 215 families, with minimal new migrant arrivals.
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