Mayor Mike Johnston today announced Denver has delivered the largest two-year reduction in street homelessness in U.S. history, along with the lowest number of unsheltered individuals in the country among large cities participating in the annual Point-In-Time (PIT) Count.
“Denver is proving that homelessness is solvable so long as we are willing to put in the work to solve it,” said Mayor Mike Johnston. “In less than two years we have gone from a city that swept people from block to block to one that treats people with dignity and delivers real results. This policy is not only morally just but effective.”
The PIT Count is part of a national effort to track sheltered and unsheltered homelessness and is conducted on a single night in January. It is led by Metro Denver Homeless Initiative (MDHI), which released this year’s results on Monday. Unsheltered homelessness, which is Mayor Johnston’s top priority, relates to individuals sleeping on the streets or other places unsuited to live. Sheltered homelessness refers to those staying in a shelter, safe house, or transitional home.
In 2025, the PIT Count found 785 people living on the streets of Denver—marking a 38% reduction in unsheltered homelessness from 2024, when 1,273 were experiencing street homelessness, and a 45% drop from 2023, when 1,423 people were without a safe place to live. The 45% figure is the largest two-year drop of any major city on record and constitutes just 18 months of work by the Johnston Administration. Current numbers also show fewer people are living on Denver’s streets that at any time since Jan. 2019…