Plus: Denver-area inflation is up 5.7%, which is higher than the U.S. Some reasons why.
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A modular home community near Telluride may become a national model. But getting it open hasn’t been easy.
Pinion Park residents are settling into Norwood. Among the lessons learned: don’t ship, assemble and finish the homes in winter.
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COVID pushed Colorado nonprofits to their limits. Leaders stuck around, committed to the mission, not the money.
As the next wave of economic challenges lines up, top managers say they’d rather fight to help clients than jump on the corporate track
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Opinion: The solution to high housing costs isn’t rent control, it’s more housing
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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What’s Working: Denver inflation falls to 6.4%, which means we still have high inflation
Gas prices are back over $4 a gallon but a bigger inflation culprit is housing prices. Plus: Fair Workweek bill on pause, more chips for Colorado Springs.
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Metro Denver median home prices finally dropped after two years of unprecedented growth
After a hectic two years of unprecedented home price increases, the median sales price stayed the same in Colorado, dropped in metro Denver, and rose in other parts of the state in January
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Colorado housing prices would have to drop 32% to match the “affordability” of 2015
The median sales price for a house in 2015 was $285,000.