Posted on 04/16/2024 9:00:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law Monday that officially eliminates most restrictions on how many unrelated roommates can live together in Colorado.
House Bill 1007 prohibits local governments from enacting occupancy limits, which Polis and other critics of the policy have derided as discriminatory and outdated. Roughly two dozen Colorado cities have such restrictions on the books, though lawmakers said that only a few — including the college town of Fort Collins — actively enforce them.
“This issue is both a housing issue and a civil rights issue,” Polis said during a bill-signing ceremony outside the Capitol. “It really is both. For housing, the opportunity for people to officially be on the lease — it gives them protections, allows them to start establishing their credit, gives them the certainty that they get to live here.”
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...and that they get to vote for me.
The illegal migrants tend to try to live multiple families in one house.
There goes the neighborhood.
Occupancy limits are one of the reasons housing is so expensive.
And this will embolden squatters who can easily get 10-40 people in a house.
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Yes sugar coating aside it is for the illegals to live 30 people to the room.
We have that here. A person I know who owns apt buildings said one family is on the lease and something like 15 people move in
What could go wrong?
You have nice place in a decent neighborhood. One day one of you neighbors sells his three-bedroom house and the new owner leases it out to twenty ‘newcomers. Soon cars are parked on the front lawn, loud music, comings and goings at all hours.
If you aren’t quick you’re not going to be able to sell your house and whatever money you have in it will be gone.
But you will have the comfort of knowing that you live in a state that is welcoming, fair and not tied to outdated and discriminatory ideas of the past.
Which means that the property taxes collected on that house doesn’t begin to cover the cost of schooling their children.
The schools instantly become overcrowded and underfunded, leading to wailing for more and more money...which the one house with 3 families in it can’t pay.
So guess who gets stuck with new tax bills to pay for all this fun?
No, housing is expensive because of zoning laws, environmental impact studies, building codes, and NIMBY activists.
I don’t want to live next door to 50 people packed in a house, do you?
20 people in one tenement. Welcome to NYC c 1900.
Back in 2007, just before the crash, we were selling homes to first-time buyers with no money down under an FHA program. The new owner would move in multiple people, never make a payment. It would take 2+ years for the bank to get around to foreclosing, so they got two free years of living. They would get utility assistance also, and food stamps. The living was good.
Catering to the open borders constituency.
They all are. All of these elected scumbags are putting foreign illegals ahead of legacy Americans. This is why I’m not voting this year.
“Doctor Zhivago come to life”
Thanks for mentioning the most ingenious film of all time. In it, we see all the upended moral sensibilities of our day.
COMRADE KAPROGINA, CHAIRMAN OF THE RESIDENCE COMMITTEE: “There was room for 13 families IN THIS ONE HOUSE”
DOCTOR Z:”Yes, comrade; this is a better arrangement — more just.”
COMRADE K: “Your attitude is noticed, you know; oh yes, it’s been noticed”.
Exactly right. This is yet another step by the government to destroy the middle class, and American society. Plain and simple.
Those were called “NINJA” loans:
No
Income
No
Job, no
Assets
Move to a locality that has high occupancy limits and cheaper housing.
The state should butt out and leave it to the localities.
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