DENVER — A third-party evaluation determined that Denver Mayor Mike Johnston's homelessness initiative reduced large homeless encampments in the city by 98%.

Johnston launched the All In Mile High initiative in 2024 to end unsheltered homelessness in Denver by the end of 2026. Denver's Department of Housing Stability (HOST) recently hired the research nonprofit, The Urban Institute , to evaluate the program's progress.

"When we're engaged by individual localities or organizations, in order to do evaluations, we maintain our independence as an evaluator through having confidentiality with people who are subjects of our research and not sharing any identifying information with the funders," Samantha Batko, a senior fellow at The Urban Institute, explained.

The Urban Institute found t

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