Polis can’t bully cities into making housing more affordable

Re: “ Housing laws: Most cities make ‘good faith’ efforts to comply, state says ,” Oct. 8 news story

Gov. Jared Polis is starting to sound more and more like President Trump!

His plan to punish those cities that don’t agree with his “more, more, more” housing policy is just petty Trump-like vengeance.

And it’s a Trump-like diversion from the underlying failure of this policy. In simple terms, this “growth first” policy never had a solid basis in the housing market for the Denver area.

Any decent look would have shown that the long-term demand is far too great to expect prices to magically come down and stay down.

Thus, the intelligent policy would have been to acknowledge this fact and also that adding too many people wil

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