Affordable housing has been in short supply for a number of years along rapidly growing Colorado’s populous Front Range. That goes for the state’s resort towns in the mountains, too. The shortage stymies workers, students, young couples starting out on a new life together — you name it.
What’s also in short supply are viable solutions for the affordable-housing crunch. Proposition 123 on this fall’s statewide ballot deserves some credit for at least taking up the issue with the best of intentions. Unfortunately, it’s not the answer.
The ballot proposal’s plan for throwing a lot of money at the problem in wide-ranging ways is too unfocused to make meaningful progress. Its reach into Colorado taxpayers’ pockets for such an unrealistic agenda can’t be justified.
See the full article by Editorial Staff, September 22, 2022