Rent control reduces the incentive to build new homes, hurting the people it is trying to help. Instead, Colorado needs more housing options.
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Colorado Democrats are turning 2023 into the year of housing. But should the state wade into local land decisions?
Lawmakers may limit local land-use directives to promote housing density. Also on the docket: rent control, eviction limitations and transit-oriented development.
Posted inEconomy
What’s Working: When Colorado’s tight labor market met the state’s housing affordability issue
So many job openings, so few “affordable” houses for sale. Colorado Realtors met to discuss. Plus: Workers aren’t “on the couch,” labor demographics are changing, more!
Posted inHousing
780 affordable units or 3 houses? Telluride is latest Colorado town where housing, conservation clash
Push for rural affordable housing runs into battle to preserve wildlife, open space and agriculture
Posted inOpinion Columns
Opinion: Stop growth? Might as well try to hold back the tide
Population growth is going to happen. We can expand housing and preserve our landscape, if we loosen zoning and accept density.
Posted inOpinion Columns
Opinion: Housing wins elections and Latinos need better housing
That’s a politically potent combination, but it requires broadening access to people who don’t fit the traditional molds.
Posted inHousing
Brighton’s holistic approach to housing aims to break the cycle for the next generation
During the pandemic, the Brighton Housing Authority started new programs to tutor school children and find emergency housing for victims of domestic violence
Posted inHousing
Once-in-a-generation tax revenues are flowing into western Colorado coffers. How will communities invest?
A proposed ballot initiative for 2023 would impose a fee on all real estate deals to fund affordable housing
Posted inHousing
Old motels are putting a dent in Colorado’s homelessness crisis after serving as emergency shelters during the pandemic
Already this fall, the city of Denver has helped nonprofits buy three motels that eventually will provide hundreds of housing units for those living on the streets
Posted inElection 2022
Colorado voters approve ballot measure setting aside nearly $300 million each year for affordable housing
Proposition 123 will set aside up to 0.1% of taxable income each year for affordable housing. That’s estimated to be $145 million in the current fiscal year — which ends June 30, 2023 — and $290 million in 2023-24 and subsequent fiscal years.