Denver’s city-funded micro-communities for the homeless have struggled to gain momentum in finding people permanent living arrangements, according to housing data.
In late 2023 and early 2024, Mayor Mike Johnston’s administration opened micro-communities in Central Park, the Golden Triangle and Overland neighborhoods, allowing handfuls of homeless residents to live in small, shed-like units while they look for work and more permanent housing, like subsidized apartments. Nearly a year in, the three sites have moved 75 homeless residents into permanent housing, according to data from the Denver Department of Housing Stability, or HOST.
According to December 17 numbers from a city housing dashboard, nearly 860 formerly homeless residents are now living in permanent housing after going through All In Mile High, the mayor’s program to get housing for all of Denver’s homeless. The dashboard, which hasn’t been updated in a month, claims that about 450 people moved into permanent housing straight from street homelessness, and about 400 people from city-funded hotel sites or micro-communities ended up in permanent housing…