Colorado’s governor rolled out an ambitious bill aiming to tackle the state’s growing housing crisis by limiting municipalities’ oversight of residential development in the state’s most populated cities. In a home-rule state, is a statewide housing shortage enough to override legal deference to municipalities’ ability to govern land within their borders? Listen as shareholders Sarah Mercer and Carolynne White go over what’s in the bill, the legal tangles lawmakers have to contend with, and why most municipalities in the state are pushing back.
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