The city's first homeless sweep under the Johnston administration will happen on Friday, August 4, at an encampment in Denver's Five Points neighborhood.
Mayor Mike Johnston talks about the planned sweep of an encampment at 22nd and Stout Street on Friday, the first of his administration.Mayor Mike Johnston has given the go-ahead for the first homeless encampment sweep under his new administration — slated to go down Friday, August 4, at an encampment located at 22nd and Stout Street — in response to reports of an alleged rat infestation.
The process of encampment sweeps is something Johnston has vowed to make more humane and effective. He said Wednesday that the city had approved the first one under his administration last week. The targeted encampment is home to around fifty to one hundred people, per estimates from the mayor and the"This is a place where we have a significant rat infestation in the encampment," Johnston said.
"We have been focused really on places where we have significant public health risks," he explained."We know as we're building that capacity, we have folks that are still living in conditions that can be unsafe. That's why our position has changed to, if it is a public health and safety risk, then we want to make sure those people are protected from those public health and safety risks.
"These rocks were placed along this street to try and keep houseless people off the block," HAND says."Now these very rocks are making the place a more friendly habitat for rodents. For the most part, residents of this encampment are keeping the area clean [despite not having trash service]." With the question of where people evicted from encampments will keep looming large Wednesday, Johnston insisted that his sweeps will not look like the ones carried out by the Michael Hancock administration before him.
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