As the 2024 legislative session begins, housing will permeate every discussion
As Colorado elected officials dive into a wide range of topics and controversies once the 2024 legislative session kicks off this morning, the need to…
Housing
Colorado property tax commission meets, hears forecast on property values
While Colorado property valuations spiked enough this year to necessitate a ballot initiative, a special session and a commission to study them, that commission learned…
Colorado examining whether changes in homeowners’ insurance laws could boost housing affordability
While legislators scramble to determine if land-use reform or regulatory overhauls can alleviate the affordable-housing crisis, Colorado Insurance Commissioner Michael Conway is examining another potential…
Colorado Senate announces changes to key committees
Colorado Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez announced changes Tuesday to committee structures and memberships that had been anticipated since his election to the position two…
Interim committee approves bill to quadruple short-term-rental tax rates
Colorado legislators will consider a bill in 2024 that would require owners of short-term rental properties to pay the same property-tax rates as hotel operators,…
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,…
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…