“Enormous progress” for tenants: Here’s how the Colorado legislature tried to help renters in 2024 coloradosun.com/2024/05/23/col… #copolitics #coleg via Brian Eason

NEW: Colorado Public Radio resolves dispute with fired host Vic Vela, who alleged the station discriminated against him coloradosun.com/2024/05/17/vic…

An example of why Colorado just banned occupancy limits, Texas edition 👇

With special guest: me, anxiously looking at the clock hoping we finish in time for the Mavs game

Can't wait to dive into this. If Marisa can't let a story go after 6 years, you know it's gonna be a helluva read

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The Colorado House just narrowly killed House Bill 1460, brought by Reps. Bacon and Herod. After a rewrite on the floor, it would have created an interim committee to study protections for law enforcement whistleblowers

The question facing policymakers is not if the falling value of office buildings in cities—and the resulting reduced property taxes—will affect local budgets, but how bad it will get. tpc.io/4dfyRTL

The transit-oriented land use bill, HB 1313 is headed to the Senate floor after a number of delays and amendments.

Changes: stronger anti-displacement rules and local govts get to exempt more land to reduce housing requirements

Passed 5-4, three GOP and Sen. Zenzinger opposed

On Tuesday, Ginal told The Denver Post that it was a “free country” and that people should be able to use apps and algorithms they pay for.

ProPublica found the app in question 'is helping drive rents higher, by the company's own admission.'
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Brian Eason The bill still has language allocating $35 million for in a TOC grant fund. That's on pages 55 and 56 of the latest version of the bill draft: leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/…

The transit-oriented housing tax credits are back. The House just popped them into a separate bill, HB-1434, which also expands the affordable housing tax credit

Something to keep in mind with all the land use reforms being debated in Colorado: 'Housing experts say it’s likely to take at least three to five years after a statewide policy is passed before the public should expect to see any real changes in housing production'

Images from the Aug. 25 pro-Palestine protest at Emory University, including the arrest of economics professor Caroline Fohlin (last slide) Atlanta Journal-Constitution

15 ways housing, development and renters’ rights could change in Colorado this year
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The Colorado House passed a bill supporters hope can preserve some of the state's affordable units. It would give local govts a “right of first refusal” to buy privately owned affordable housing once rent restrictions expire via The Colorado Sun Brian Eason buff.ly/3Q4AARI

uhh

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The affordability requirements on thousands of publicly funded, low-cost housing units built decades ago are now expiring — a trend that’s only going to accelerate in the coming years coloradosun.com/2024/04/17/col… via @coloradosun

man why didn’t I think of that, should’ve compared to more cities coloradosun.com/2024/03/18/col…

I wrote a thing.

*returns to Twitter hibernation*

I will not engage on Twitter I will not engage on Twi….

sigh, people in lower income brackets pay *the highest effective tax rates in the state* because of sales tax and property tax via their rent