Denver’s first homeless shacks going next to elementary school bus stop
Mayor Johnston showed up mostly unannounced in the Overland neighborhood this week to allegedly hear residents’ concerns about the towns of tiny shacks for hundreds of Denver’s homeless going up, uhm, now.
Mostly, he was there to tell residents what was going to happen whether they liked it or not.
The city had gathered all the experts, conducted all the planning, and everything was ready to go, so stop complaining, Westword instructed the locals, whom the writer described as “clutching their pearls” at the prospect of living next to the camp.
Buried at the end of the article, Westword revealed some sloppy planning by the city and reported Johnston and Chandler were caught flat-footed when residents expressed concern about the bus stop for elementary school students across the street from the new and improved homeless camp.