Letters: Population growth is driving housing prices up in Colorado and pushing locals out

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Denver Post readers sound off on Colorado’s shrinking affordable housing inventory, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and power use.

Steve Pomerance’s excellent coverage of Colorado’s shortage of affordable housing and its related problems is clearly on target regarding population growth and affordable housing.

In response to Steve Pomerance’s well-written article, when the big money comes in, the little money has to get out. End of story.Thank you for the call-out. I do not understand why the current majority leadership in our state government at all levels is so intent on growth, more growth and regulation to spoil and destroy the quality of life here.

Will it help to tear down small homes and have more luxury condos in the Washington Park area? Are more second homes needed in Summit County? One alarming statement from an expert in power systems is that he can’t remember a time when he was “so alarmed about the country’s energy trajectory.” In one of many examples, we learn that a Kansas utility company had intended to close a coal plant, but will now need it to power an electric car battery factory.

 

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