Dallas Targets Permitting Delays as Denver Reports Homelessness Drop
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston argue that city government’s housing role is operational: remove the local barriers that block production, or build a homelessness system that moves people indoors and into permanent housing. In an excerpted City Hall discussion, Johnson casts Dallas’s affordability problem as a supply failure worsened by permitting friction, while Johnston says Denver reduced street homelessness by rapidly adding acceptable transitional units, closing encampments, colocating services, and linking the hardest cases to treatment and courts.
The Aspen Institute·Jul 1, 2026·6 min read
