Colorado’s Affordable Housing Plan

Many ideas await the recommendations from legislators on how to spend $400 million of COVID-relief money on how to make housing more accessible to more people. “We’re all saying it: This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make investments in housing that we would never as a state be able to make in our own,” said Cathy Alderman, chief communications and policy officer for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, a member of the group that wrote the spending plan.

Supply prices, subsidized housing, building requirements, zoning changes to allow for accessory dwelling units, anti-growth ordinances, and the water supply are all concerns that will need to be metered. State and local governments will begin to discuss these issues of housing, which were all brought to light due to the pandemic. “You can almost draw it exactly to March of 2020 when things started to deviate from the norms,” said CAR spokesperson Matthew Leprino.

https://www.cpr.org/2022/02/08/colorado-affordable-housing-plan-growth-density/