DENVER’s mayor is Mike Johnston, with a “t”. Its unofficial “mayor of the streets” is Mike Johnson, with a teardrop tattoo(泪滴纹身（常与犯罪或监禁相关）) and a soft voice—your correspondent can barely hear him over a karaoke performance of a Guns N’ Roses song in the cafeteria of one of Denver’s new homeless shelters.(在丹佛新庇护所的自助餐厅里，枪炮与玫瑰乐队的卡拉OK表演声中，记者几乎听不清他说话。) For years, Mr Johnson’s life was a haze of(一片（混乱或模糊的状态）) pills, heroin and street living. Now he spends his days helping Denverites like him find shelter or a place to detox. That is easier than it used to be: Denver’s tent camps have largely disappeared.
丹佛的市长是迈克·约翰斯顿（Mike Johnston），注意拼写带“t”。该市非正式的“街头市长”是迈克·约翰逊（Mike Johnson），他脸上有泪滴纹身，声音轻柔——在丹佛新庇护所的自助餐厅里，记者几乎听不清他说话，背景是枪炮与玫瑰乐队的卡拉OK表演。多年来，约翰逊的生活被药片、海洛因和街头流浪笼罩。如今，他每天帮助像他一样的丹佛人寻找庇护所或戒毒场所。这比过去容易了：丹佛的帐篷营地基本消失了。
Homelessness in America declined by 3% between 2024 and 2025, yet the number of people without a home is still 31% higher than it was before the covid-19 pandemic. Since 2020 tents have proliferated(激增，扩散), particularly in warm western and southern cities where people can camp year-round. This is a problem—for the homeless people who lack shelter, for locals who feel their cities have been overtaken by encampments(被营地侵占), and for Democrats, who run many big cities and whom Donald Trump blames for urban chaos. Early evidence suggests Denver, led by Mr Johnston, a Democrat, may offer a solution.
美国无家可归人数在2024年至2025年间下降了3%，但无家可归的人数仍比新冠疫情前高出31%。自2020年以来，帐篷大量增加，尤其是在温暖的西部和南部城市，人们可以全年露营。这是一个问题——对缺乏庇护的无家可归者、对感觉城市被营地占领的当地人、以及对管理许多大城市并受到唐纳德·特朗普指责城市混乱的民主党人来说，都是问题。早期证据表明，由民主党人约翰斯顿领导的丹佛可能提供了一个解决方案。
In recent years policies on homelessness have swung between extremes. Officials struggled to balance compassion for society’s most vulnerable—many of whom suffer from mental illness or drug addiction—with the concerns of residents and businesses tired of tiptoeing around(小心翼翼地避开) faeces and needles. Inaction led to a political reckoning in cities such as San Francisco, where the mayor in charge while homelessness and public drug use ballooned(激增，急剧膨胀) was ousted(被赶下台，被免职) by a moderate reformer.
近年来，关于无家可归的政策在极端之间摇摆。官员们努力在同情社会最弱势群体（其中许多人患有精神疾病或吸毒成瘾）与居民和企业对不得不小心绕过粪便和针头的担忧之间取得平衡。不作为导致了旧金山等城市的政治清算，在无家可归和公共吸毒问题激增期间负责的市长被一名温和的改革者赶下了台。
