Denver mayor touts 'ambitious' plan to get homeless off streets, take back downtown for frustrated residents
Local activist dumped human excrement on City Hall last month in protest of city's homeless crisis
EXCLUSIVE– Denver's homeless problem is so bad that one resident resorted to dumping human excrement left by his office on the steps of City Hall to convey his frustration.
Mike Johnston, the Democratic mayor of Denver, may be on the other side of the aisle, but he understood where libertarian think tank owner Jon Caldara was coming from with his viral stunt.
"I've known Jon Caldara for a long time, so we've had more than our handful of discussions, but I think he and I share the same goal, which is what we want is be able to get people housed and be able to get back clean, safe public spaces that everyone can access," Johnston told Fox News Digital. "We know one of the reasons that happens is when folks are living out in tents and encampments, they don't have access to public bathrooms. They don't have access to trash pick-up. And so often they have no place else to drop trash and no place else to go to the bathroom, and so that's one of the reasons why we know it's not the right solution. It's inhumane, it's not good for the city."
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Local activist dumped human excrement on City Hall last month in protest of city's homeless crisis
EXCLUSIVE– Denver's homeless problem is so bad that one resident resorted to dumping human excrement left by his office on the steps of City Hall to convey his frustration.
Mike Johnston, the Democratic mayor of Denver, may be on the other side of the aisle, but he understood where libertarian think tank owner Jon Caldara was coming from with his viral stunt.
"I've known Jon Caldara for a long time, so we've had more than our handful of discussions, but I think he and I share the same goal, which is what we want is be able to get people housed and be able to get back clean, safe public spaces that everyone can access," Johnston told Fox News Digital. "We know one of the reasons that happens is when folks are living out in tents and encampments, they don't have access to public bathrooms. They don't have access to trash pick-up. And so often they have no place else to drop trash and no place else to go to the bathroom, and so that's one of the reasons why we know it's not the right solution. It's inhumane, it's not good for the city."
Denver mayor touts 'ambitious' plan to get homeless off streets, take back downtown for frustrated residents
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston speaks about his administration's ambitious bid to combat the city's homelessness problem in an interview with Fox News Digital.
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