With the effective date for HB 25-1090 approaching on January 1, 2026 and inconsistent legal opinions advising rental housing providers how to comply with prohibitions on billing for common area utilities, many members have contacted the Association about its advocacy plans regarding the issue.... Continue Reading
Rental housing is front and center during this legislative session where Colorado lawmakers are considering more than 30 housing-related bills, most of which specifically target rental housing. Over-zealous regulation has become increasingly common in our state in recent years, but Continue Reading
August 18, 2025 – It is no secret that families across Colorado are struggling to pay rent. While anti-growth policies have continued to drive up the costs of all housing across the state, our elected leaders have desperately tried to pursue new policies to keep people in their homes. Continue Reading
News about the state Legislature paving the way for government overreach is all too common for us on the Western Slope, but those of us in the multifamily housing industry have seen it become part of our daily work Continue Reading
The First Regular Session of Colorado's 75th General Assembly concluded on May 7, 2025, marking the end of a busy 120-day legislative cycle. Legislators introduced 657 bills this year, slightly fewer than the 706 in 2024, but the impact was no less significant. For the Colorado Apartment... Continue Reading
Colorado landlords who are not adequately informed about the state’s complex regulatory landscape face significant challenges and potential liability. Tenant Advocacy Groups (TAGs) began imposing new regulations on landlords when they gained control of the Colorado General Assembly. Since... Continue Reading
There’s a growing misconception that large residential property management companies charge above market-rate rent by using computerized pricing algorithms. This claim is the basis of both a highly publicized class action lawsuit and a US Department of Justice probe/ PR campaign. The... Continue Reading
The ever changing legal landscape for property owners and property managers underwent a major shift in 2024. There were more proposed bills in 2024 impacting property management than gun control. It can be difficult to sort through all of the noise of the session, so the goal here is to make you... Continue Reading
A record number of bills were proposed in the Colorado Legislature this year. Of the 705 bills introduced this session, the Colorado Apartment Association (CAA) identified more than a dozen that would have been harmful to rental housing providers. CAA and its lobbyist team HBS minimized the... Continue Reading
This is a big question! We think it needs to start with perception. Homelessness needs to be understood as a problem driven by a lack of access to housing. It is a market failure. People are forced out of stable housing or are unable to access it when housing markets don’t provide... Continue Reading
This past summer, millions of people added the term “Atmospheric River,” to their meteorological lexicon. Just one of these flowing columns of condensed water vapor, gliding 10,000 feet overhead and extending over 2,000 miles long, can have an average flow rate 15 times greater... Continue Reading
The cost of housing has increased dramatically in Colorado. The average cost of buying a house has gone up 49% in the last 5 years (10% per year). The average rent rate has increased 18% over that same period of time (3.6% per year). Perhaps because many people own houses, the increased cost of... Continue Reading
