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Department of Local Affairs launches new rental assistance website, awards
$6.025M in affordable housing
Denver,
CO – July 1, 2021 – The
Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) Division of Housing (DOH) has
published a new website to simplify obtaining emergency rental assistance as
well as upcoming homeowner relief, and awarded $6.025M through the Colorado
State Housing Board (SHB) for affordable...
High Court Says CDC Lacks Authority
In a 5-4 ruling Tuesday evening, the U.S. Supreme Court said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lacked authority to implement a blanket, nationwide eviction moratorium.
Although the court declined to lift the ban immediately, the ruling means the current moratorium will expire at the end of July.
“This is a massive victory for property rights,”...
“Colorado gained about 50,000 people between July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020, according to the data released Dec. 22. That includes both migration and births. The state has added about 760,000 people since 2010, the eighth-highest in the country.”
Read more at Denver Business Journal.
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Over the past several months, CAR and Habitat for Humanity worked to push forward four legislative solutions aimed at helping improve homeownership opportunities for all Coloradans. We are excited to announce that after all our work with other housing stakeholders and legislators, HB 1271 was first to be signed by the Governor over the weekend in Basalt....
But addressing the shortfall will require unprecedented actions and intense coordination among the public, private and nonprofit sectors, a new white paper the Common Sense Institute released on Friday argues.
“We have to act with a sense of urgency. If we don’t act now the decisions will get harder,” said Peter LiFari, executive director of Maker Housing Partners, who co-authored a housing development...
“I think that everyone wants to say there’s no inventory and everyone is fighting for the same listings, but the fact is that we’re selling more properties than we have in the last…(two years),” said Dana Cottrell, real estate broker for Summit Resort Group and past president of Summit REALTORS®.
Read more at the Summit Daily.
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Routt County was Colorado’s hottest vacation-home market, the National Association of REALTORS® found
“As we enter the month of June, buyers and their agents are hopeful for more inventory — reminiscent of thoughts we have about snow — when it is going to come and how much we are going to get?” said Steamboat Springs-area REALTOR® Marci Valicenti, in...
There is a lot to celebrate this year as CAR honors our 100 years of service to Colorado consumers and looks ahead at how to serve our clients and communities in the century ahead. Over the past several months, CAR and Habitat for Humanity worked to push forward four legislative solutions aimed at helping improve homeownership opportunities for all Coloradans....
The unprecedented housing crisis in Colorado will soon see an equally extraordinary flood of cash. In Colorado's high country, where affordable housing is a decades-long issue that exploded into a catastrophe last year, an army of developers on the front lines of a complex campaign to build workforce housing are ready to help guide the sudden influx of funding.
Once the...
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Watch REALTOR® David Madone explain the benefits of owning home in Royal Gorge area on Denver7 news.
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