Affordable Housing in Colorado

KDNK's news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond.

An affordable-housing community outside of Telluride has disallowed dogs since its inception in 1992 in an effort to protect area wildlife. Over the last half decade, an increase in emotional support animals has become a source of tension in the community of Lawson Hill, and ESA dog owners are beginning to speak out about what they say is an issue of housing discrimination and disability rights.

The Mancos Common Press, in collaboration with the town of Mancos, plans to build housing units to help fight the town’s affordable housing crisis.

SW Colorado faces a housing crisis just like other rural areas across the West. Organizations are building affordable housing developments. But, the issue…

It takes more than “want and will” to build affordable housing in Colorado’s mountain communities. Limited land pushes up prices, and building costs are…

A recent survey of 4,600 mountain town residents in Colorado found that record housing prices, rising rents and a dwindling supply is making it harder for many people to afford to live where they work.