Denver City Hall has put up the homeless in tent towns it has built as well as in hotels it has purchased. So, the administration of Mayor Mike Johnston must reason it’s no big deal to take the next step — buying and building longer-term “affordable housing.”
Using taxpayers’ dollars, of course. Which, to City Hall, might as well be Monopoly money.
Hence, its pending purchase of an old Goodyear shop downtown for $2.5 million, as reported last week by The Denver Gazette. The city plans to tear down the structure near the Denver Pavilions and the Webb Municipal Building and build new affordable housing on the site…