The program had marked a shift in Denver’s strategy of housing migrants in massive temporary shelters to providing individual resources.
About 860 people are currently part of the program, which offers six months of housing, job training, language instruction and legal support in filing asylum claims, according to city officials.
In addition to ending the program, the city is closing its remaining migrant shelter at the end of the month, Jon Ewing, a city spokesperson who manages communications for Denver’s newcomer response, said Tuesday.
Denver, Chicago and New York have had to adapt over the past two years as their migrant populations have grown since Texas Gov.
Ewing said Denver is “enormously proud” of its asylum-seeker resource program and its broader migrant response.
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