Tag: Affordable Housing
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All Lakewood City Council incumbents re-elected, still focusing on affordable housing
The Lakewood City Council looks mostly the same following the Nov. 4 elections. With that, the council’s goals remain the same: affordable housing for the missing middle — or families that don’t qualify as low-income but don’t earn enough to obtain a mortgage on a single-family home. The city had four incumbents running for re-election…
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All Lakewood City Council incumbents re-elected, still focusing on affordable housing
The Lakewood City Council looks mostly the same following the Nov. 4 elections. With that, the council’s goals remain the same: affordable housing for the missing middle — or families that don’t qualify as low-income but don’t earn enough to obtain a mortgage on a single-family home. The city had four incumbents running for re-election…
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Builders say Colorado’s push fails to create more affordable housing
What’s the secret sauce for making homes more affordable in Colorado? That’s the question that renters are asking when the median price of a home — now $550,000 — ranks Colorado as one of the least affordable places to live in the nation. Fourth or fifth from the bottom, according to some rankings. Colorado is…
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Denver ramps up efforts to increase affordable housing
With a population of more than 729,000 and growing, the city of Denver has long struggled with an unaffordable housing market and needs to create close to 44,000 affordable units over the next decade, according to the city’s Department of Housing Stability. The median sale price of a home in Denver stands at $584,500, up…
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Entertainment district around Ball Arena could be ready by 2032
The first phase of the development project to transform the parking lots of Ball Arena could be finished in the next seven years, an executive for Kroenke Sports & Entertainment said Wednesday. “So, Phase 1, we’re projecting as of now a build out around all of Ball Arena by 2032,” the organization’s senior vice president…
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Affordable housing plan stalled as Denver rejects property buy
A resolution that would have pulled $2.5 million out of the city’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP) contingency fund to purchase a former Goodyear auto repair shop in the city’s Central Business District has failed. Members of the Denver City Council voted 7 to 4 on Tuesday to reject the plan to purchase the property at…
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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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Lakewood City Council approves zoning map
Lakewood finalized the last ordinance for its nearly 400-page zoning code proposal on Monday and approved the zoning map, ending a heated process that had sparked controversy in the city since the beginning of the year. The final ordinance of the new Lakewood zoning code was approved with an 8-3 vote during the City Council…
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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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Lakewood never had single-family only zoning before changes, city says
Changes being made to Lakewood’s zoning code have raised questions and ire throughout the community, especially when it comes to the city’s single-family residential districts. Residents have said they want to retain their single-family home neighborhoods. The city never had single-family only residential zoning, according to Mayor Wendi Strom. “The city’s current zone districts often…