Rent control strongly induces single-family rental home owners to take their property off the rental market by selling it to an owner-occupant. “There are far more people in Colorado living in rental homes than apartments.”
Colorado outlawed rent control in 1981, now Democrat legislators want to repeal that law and allow local governments to impose any kind of rent control they like.
It would usher in the sort of squalid, quasi-permanent encampments on public property that have become a problem for cities such as Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle.
Freemark found that upzoning did not lead to an increase in the number of housing units built; it just influenced where they were built.
The tactic is also tone deaf in a city in which recent growth, particularly in higher density central neighborhoods, has resulted in a whitening of the overall population.
Pikes Peak Regional Building Department teams up with Careers In Construction Colorado to have high school students build affordable modular homes.
Parker running for mayor of Colorado Springs in a four-way race that includes Lawrence Martinez, John Suthers and John Pitchford
Now a person making as much as $181,000 a year can get taxpayer-subsidized housing for dimes on the dollar.
Ordinance to ban RV parking on all streets in Colorado Springs delayed until March over concerns of lack of a plan for dealing with people living long-term in recreational vehicles.
The city and state governments would be better advised to take a hard look at the policies that have driven up housing costs in the first place.
The city, using data collected by school districts, estimates that there were more than 1,000 school-age students experiencing homelessness as of the January 2018 Point in Time homeless count.
Complaints and epithets were hurled at the police by some, but others tried to keep the peace and prevent violence from erupting.
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