Denver, CO
Denver just doubled its goal for how many homeless people it will permanently house in 2025
The City of Denver will strive to put 2,000 people in permanent housing this year as it moves more people out of temporary shelters — a figure that’s double city leaders’ original goal for 2025.
The decision to boost the target came after internal conversations within the city government over the last month, said Cole Chandler, the deputy director of Mayor Mike Johnston’s city’s homeless initiative.
“The reality is, we’ve always set big, audacious goals — not necessarily about what we think we can do, but what our community needs,” Chandler said in an interview. “We’re going to give that our best effort in 2025.”
The plan is part of Johnston’s signature homeless initiative, called All in Mile High, which began when he declared a state of emergency on his second day in office in July 2023. That year, the city moved 1,000 people off the streets and into temporary housing, including tiny homes and hotel rooms.
Last year, the total moved inside reached more than 2,000 people. As of December, more than a third of those people had then moved into more permanent housing.
This year, the city plans to bring 2,000 people off the street and into city-operated temporary housing and another 2,000 into more permanent housing, Chandler said in a presentation to the Denver City Council’s Safety, Housing, Education & Homelessness Committee Wednesday. Some of that second group could come from the temporary shelters.
Some on council were skeptical about the new goal.
“I would just love to understand how you’re going to accomplish this,” said Councilmember Stacie Gilmore. “I would just question if it can really happen.”
Councilman Kevin Flynn questioned if the city’s stated overall goal of “ending street homelessness” was even possible.
“It’s cyclical,” he said. “Every day, unfortunately, someone may end up on the streets.”
Chandler responded by saying he does believe it’s possible.
“What it means to do that is to design a system that can respond to the needs of individuals — that we are able to get more people off the streets than are falling back into homelessness on a given day,” he said.
In 2024, the initiative was estimated to have cost the city more than $150 million.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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A Frontier Airlines plane has hit and killed a person at Denver’s international airport, prompting the evacuation of passengers. Authorities say the man jumped a perimeter fence and ran in front of the plane as it was taking off to Los Angeles.
Published On 10 May 2026
Denver, CO
Pedestrian fatally hit by Frontier airplane departing Denver for Los Angeles, flight canceled after
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DENVER (AP) — A Frontier Airlines plane hit a pedestrian on the runway of the Denver International Airport during takeoff, airport authorities said, sparking an engine fire and forcing passengers to evacuate.
The plane, on route from Denver to Los Angeles International Airport, “reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN at approximately 11:19 p.m. on Friday,” the airport’s official X account wrote.
Neither the airport nor the airline has disclosed the pedestrian’s condition.
“We’re stopping on the runway,” the pilot tells the control tower according to the site ATC.com. “We just hit somebody. We have an engine fire.”
The pilot tells the air traffic controller they have “231 souls” on board and that and “individual was walking across the runway.”
The air traffic controller responds that they are “rolling the trucks now” before the pilot tells the tower they “have smoke in the aircraft. We are going to evacuate on the runway.”
Frontier Airlines said in a statement flight 4345 was the one involved in the collision and that “smoke was reported in the cabin and the pilots aborted takeoff.” It was not clear whether the smoke was linked to the crash with the pedestrian.
“The Airbus A321 was carrying 224 passengers and seven crew members,” the airline said. “We are investigating this incident and gathering more information in coordination with the airport and other safety authorities.”
Passengers were then evacuated via slides and the emergency crew bused them to the terminal.
Denver Airport said the National Transportation Safety Board had been notified and that runway 17L, where the incident took place, will remain closed while an investigation is conducted.
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