Construction-defects reform efforts will return in 2024
Six years after construction-defects reform advocates passed a bill and won a key legal ruling that they believed would restart the state’s dormant condominium-building market,…
Housing
Local chamber leaders offer solutions to housing crisis
Discussions about the next major affordable-housing proposal are heating up around the Colorado Capitol, and ideas about everything from overhauls of local control to construction-defects…
Polis issues executive order on affordable housing
Gov. Jared Polis kick-started the 2024 legislative discussion on affordable housing Monday by issuing an executive order that syncs a wide range of state grants…
Colorado congressional delegation offers housing, workforce proposals
As Colorado leaders begin discussions on how to address the state’s affordable-housing and workforce-shortage crises in the next legislative session, the state’s congressional delegation —…
Tax breaks and growth-limit bans: Polis signs final housing bills of 2023
Though Gov. Jared Polis couldn’t get the Colorado Legislature to pass the centerpiece bill to his affordable-housing agenda, he was able to cap a month…
Polis vetoes right-of-first-refusal bill
Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would have allowed cities and counties to step into pending sales of older apartment complexes and…
Calls grow for Polis to veto right-of-first-refusal bill
A coalition involving 17 business, construction and real-estate associations is raising pressure on Gov. Jared Polis to veto a bill that would make Colorado the…
Governor’s housing bill dies over insurmountable gulf on local control
An ambitious bill to reform Colorado land-use codes to spur construction of more housing along key corridors and throughout cities died on the final day…
Senate passes long-delayed right-of-first-refusal bill
A bill that would make Colorado the first state in the nation to give local governments a first right of refusal on many apartment complexes…
Changes restore most original provisions to land-use reform bill
Less than one week after a Senate committee gutted a bill to create statewide standards that would allow more development of urban housing, a House…