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CV NEWS FEED // Officials in a pair of heavily Democratic cities reeling from the country’s unprecedented illegal immigration crisis are asking private citizens to host migrants on their properties.
FOX News reported Thursday that the city of Denver “recently emailed [its] rental property owners asking if they would be interested in renting to migrants who need housing.”
The development “comes as the city is scaling back its migrant services in an attempt to reduce the budget deficit by nearly $60 million and consolidate shelters,” FOX noted.
Jon Ewing of Denver Human Services told KDVR: “We put out a feeler to all the landlords we have connections with.” The email “[b]asically said, listen, we’re going to have some newcomers who are going to need housing,” according to Ewing.
“We’ve got kind of a rent cap — $2,000,” said the official, adding that “nonprofits already have connected folks with all kinds of housing, all over Denver.”
KDVR is a Denver-based FOX affiliate.
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FOX News noted that Denver’s recent attempt to house migrants at private residences comes several months after New York City Mayor Eric Adams suggested a similar initiative.
FOX indicated that “Adams in June floated the idea of eventually housing migrants in private dwellings and paying landlords of homeowners.” The mayor “suggested it as he announced that a number of faith-based services had agreed to shelter migrants.”
Adams at the time said it is his “vision to take the next step to these faith-based locales and then move to a private residence.”
Late last month, CatholicVote reported that Adams “voiced support for making changes to the Big Apple’s ‘sanctuary city’ status amid a surge of crime perpetrated by illegal migrants.”
“We should not be allowing people who are repeatedly committing crimes to remain here,” Adams said. While campaigning in 2021, he promised that under his administration, New York would remain a “sanctuary city.”
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Naperville, IL, City Councilman Josh McBroom made headlines in January when he suggested the city circulate a sign-up sheet for people to volunteer to host migrants at their places of residence.
“I do know that there’s a lot of people who do care,” McBroom stated during a council meeting at the time.
“I think we live in a compassionate community,” he continued. “[L]et’s find out who’s willing to help. We do have a very affluent community, a lot of big homes.”
“I think we need to find out who would be willing to house migrant families,” he emphasized.
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During a subsequent Newsmax interview, McBroom said: “I think that my deadpan delivery [during the council meeting] might’ve been too good.”
As CatholicVote previously reported:
Many “progressive” residents of Naperville profess to support welcoming migrants, he said, but the same people have “been pretty quiet about” his sign-up sheet idea. “I don’t think they want any part of [it].”
McBroom stressed the importance of being able to speak his constituents’ language.
“In my community, Biden won by 20 percentage points,” he explained.
