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.
Housing Navigator Christina Morales speaks with someone on the phone who received an eviction notice, on the job at Brothers Redevelopment in Edgewater on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. Morales connected the caller with resources, assistance and a variety of housing-related services. The Denver-based nonprofit received 8,000 calls in August, a 100% increase from the year before. Deborah Self couldn’t stand the sound of her ringtone any longer.
Evictions in the rest of Colorado are increasing, too, albeit at less dramatic rates: At just over 29,000 filings, evictions outside of Denver already have outpaced the entirety of 2020 and 2021 and are on track to beat 2022, too. Evictions in Colorado are nearly 8.5% higher than they were in early October 2022, according to state data.
“What we’re seeing is the confluence of this out-of-control housing market that we’ve chosen not to address through policy and the ending of all of these federal resources that were keeping people housed” during the pandemic, said Cathy Alderman, the chief communications and public policy officer for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.
Denver didn’t keep eviction data before 2008. Its single-year eviction record since then came in 2010, when it surpassed 10,200 filings. But the city is projecting it will surpass 12,000 evictions this year, roughly 3,500 more than the city’s annual average between 2008 and 2019. Demonstrators hold up signs as they take part in a protest to demand that Colorado lift a ban on rent control on the West steps of the Colorado Capitol building on March 5, 2023. during the state budgeting process earlier this year. Up to $20 million more — roughly what was spent in a month during the pandemic —In Denver, Mayor Mike Johnston has proposed more than $12.
“If you’re going to encourage people to loan housing units, you have to have a legal method to get the property back,” he said. Chris Detwiler packs up his belongings at an encampment along North Logan Street and East Eighth Ave. in Denver on Sept. 25, 2023. Denver city crews and outreach workers helped those living in the large encampment to pack up their belongings and move into hotel rooms a day before clearing remaining tents from the area.
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