Tag: affordable housing
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GUEST COLUMN: Colorado’s affordable housing doom loop
Colorado’s affordable housing crisis isn’t just a market problem, it’s a policy failure. For years, state lawmakers have piled on regulations, mandates, and costs in the name of progress, while ignoring the fundamental laws of supply and demand. The result is a self-inflicted doom loop that is driving up prices, strangling supply, and pushing homeownership…
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EDITORIAL: Trampling Colorado’s locals on energy, housing
What’s the common thread between Gov. Jared Polis’ roadmap to green energy and his agenda for affordable housing? That is, aside from the fact each will backfire on the state’s economy in one or more ways. The answer is that both steamroll local laws that are more in tune with the needs of their communities…
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EDITORIAL: Denver City Hall buys real estate like it’s Monopoly
Denver City Hall has put up the homeless in tent towns it has built as well as in hotels it has purchased. So, the administration of Mayor Mike Johnston must reason it’s no big deal to take the next step — buying and building longer-term “affordable housing.” Using taxpayers’ dollars, of course. Which, to City…
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Affordable-housing expansions increase supply for low-income Colorado Springs residents
The need for income-dependent affordable housing in Colorado Springs remains high, but two new expansions coming online are expected to make a dent in the gap between demand and supply. The Myron Stratton Home’s Chamberlin Hall The wait was worth it, John Sanchez says, looking around his new home at Chamberlin Hall. He became number…
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Denver developer accuses ski county of land grab, blocking affordable housing
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save EDWARDS • According to its own housing assessment, Eagle County needs nearly 6,400 affordable rental and for-sale housing units over the next 10 years to address current shortages and future labor growth. Given what one…
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Older neighborhoods vs. affordable housing
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For the past two years, a battle has been raging for control over the character and livability of older neighborhoods in cities throughout the Front Range of Colorado. The older neighborhoods, most of them clustered…
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Gov. Jared Polis restricts list of grants worth $250M to ‘pro-affordable housing’ communities
Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday followed up on a May executive order that would limit hundreds of millions in state grants to only communities that adhere to new laws on housing, land use and parking restrictions. In May, the governor had threatened to pull at least $100 million in funding from local governments that have…
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Widefield School District announces Housing for Educators program
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A new housing program will provide affordable homes for selected Widefield School District 3 staff members while allowing Colorado Springs-area construction students to put their skills to good use, the district announced last week. The initiative, called Housing for Educators, is a collaborative effort between…
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Habitat for Humanity builds home for veteran family in Colorado Springs
The word “home” may only have four letters, but for Willie and Barbara, it is a huge word, weighted with gratitude and hope for the future. “It means everything,” said Willie, an Army veteran who was stationed at Fort Carson in the 1980s. “It means the world.” Willie and his wife, Barbara, are about to…
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Major housing development near Schriever voted down, but it could eventually gain approval
Concerns over proximity to Schriever Space Force Base drove a 5-3 decision Thursday by the El Paso County Planning Commission not to recommend a mixed-use development that could bring as many as 5,000 homes to the plains north of the base. “If we don’t want to have these bases, then keep encroaching,” said Planning Commission…