Local Colorado Project

Note to gentrifying Denver: You can’t always live where you want, but…0
- June 27, 2017
by Jon Caldara Hey millennials. Pardon my penchant for old fogey music, but as The Rolling Stones said, “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, well you might find, you get what you need.” That includes housing. So stop whining. Yes, I get it. If you’re young and childless, it’s
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Using Disparate Impact to Restore Housing Affordability and Property Rights in Colorado 0
- March 17, 2017
Fair-housing advocates should question policies that increase housing costs by intruding on private property rights. These include growth- management tools such as urban-growth boundaries, the use of eminent domain for economic development, rent control, inclusionary zoning, and excessive impact fees, all of which benefit a few at everyone else’s expense. In approving the disparate- impact doctrine, the Supreme Court has offered a tool to both affordable-housing advocates and property-rights advocates for undoing these rules and policies that make housing less affordable.
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Littleton City Council moves to abolish its urban renewal authority 0
- November 8, 2016
From its origins as an effort to address legitimate slum and blight, URAs and TIF are now prime examples of cronyism and corporate welfare at the local level.
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The Empty Promise and Untold Cost of Urban Renewal in Colorado 0
- August 29, 2016
This paper examines the empty promises and untold costs of Urban Renewal Areas (URAs) and the use of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) in URAs in Colorado.
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Voters push back on urban renewal abuse in Wheat Ridge 0
- August 25, 2016
Special interests and their cronies in government really hate it when voters mess with their sweetheart deals.
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Inclusionary Zoning Makes Housing Less Affordable 0
- April 18, 2016
I realize this may come as a shock to some of you, but often times legislation results in unintended consequences. And sometimes these unintended consequences negate the whole intention of the legislation. Take for example, House Bill 1334, which would allow Colorado counties to impose “inclusionary zoning” in unincorporated areas. Inclusionary zoning is an attempt to
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