Less time, less flowers: Denver’s refugee crisis may overpower the city’s empathy
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DENVER – In the medians, no more flowers. cuts made to DMV and recreation center hours. a moratorium on employment in some city agencies.
In the face of rising prices and a chronic housing scarcity, Denver officials are finding it difficult to service the city's tax-paying citizens as well as the more than 40,000 migrants who came in less than a year. Denver, a city that bills itself as a sanctuary, has helped the migrants find housing, gotten their children into schools, given them emergency food aid, and taught them how to fill out paperwork.
It's a large-scale, costly endeavor in a city unaccustomed to handling such difficulties.
And now the generosity of the city is starting to reveal some fractures.
Denver officials ...
