Seth Klamann is a statehouse reporter at the Denver Post, covering policy, state government and the legislature. He previously worked for the Gazette, the Casper Star-Tribune and the Omaha World-Herald. He's a graduate of the University of Missouri and a proud Kansas City native.
State Sen. Julie Gonzales prepares to speak in favor of an amendment in the back hallway adjacent to the Senate chamber at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver on March 25, 2024. The amendment was for a bill that would set for-cause eviction protections for renters across the state. The bill generally would give renters of apartments and other housing a right of first refusal to renew an expiring lease.
He cited “cases where a tenant who asserts their rights to safe, stable housing, with an air of peacefulness, is moved … when the lease is up, and they have nowhere else to go.” “This bill is offensive to property rights,” Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen, a Monument Republican, said late Monday afternoon. “And therefore I believe it is offensive to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”by no longer requiring landlords to pay relocation costs for displaced tenants and by removing language that would require landlords to offer substantially similar lease terms.
As drafted, the amendment would have required landlords to give tenants four months’ notice that the landlords wouldn’t renew a lease. Mullica’s amendment narrowly failed after most Senate Democrats voted against it. He and three other moderate Democrats joined with the chamber’s Republicans in support.
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