Six months ago at a neighborhood event where Mike Johnston, mayor of #Denver, was promoting millions in spending to reduce homelessness I asked him about the cities and states with the most spending on this and how their homeless numbers INCREASED. He assured the crowd that wouldn't happen with his plan. His plan was different.

Six months and $155,000,000 later, homelessness has increased in Denver by 12%.

The mayor's response? A victory dance over the 150 net decrease in "unsheltered homeless" (yep, that math is one million dollars per person in net decrease) and a tax hike to take another $100,000,000 from tax payers to do the same thing that saw a 12% increase in homeless over six months... But do it harder.