Colorado lawmakers killed a bill Tuesday night that would’ve let local governments enact rent control policies, dealing a blow to progressive housing advocates’ ongoing efforts to insulate renters from rising rents and housing instability.
, which passed the House in late February by a comfortable, if partisan, margin. The bill wouldn’t have enacted any rent control or stabilization policies; it instead would’ve ended a 42-year prohibition that prevents local governments from doing so themselves. That’s critical, advocates and renters say, as rents have surged in recent years and pandemic-era eviction protections expire.
Those concerns have been rejected by the bill’s proponents. Rep. Javier Mabrey, the Denver Democrat who co-sponsored the bill in the House, has previously pointed to data showing cities with rent stabilization policies approved more housing development per capita than Colorado cities over the past decade. Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, the chair of the committee that killed the bill Tuesday, said she’d seen no evidence that the bill “would stifle construction or stifle growth.
The bill’s loss comes amid broader efforts by Polis and Democratic legislators to address the state’s housing crisis, and Roberts’s no-vote reaffirms the breadth of policy disagreements within the party as it wraps its arms around historic majorities in both the House and Senate. The rent control measure was co-sponsored by more than half of House Democrats, but opponents — like the Colorado Apartment Association — had hoped for months to kill the bill in the more moderate Senate.
Rent control’s failure comes amid broader legislative disagreements around how to address housing. Polis’s primary strategy this year — to reshape zoning and encourage denser building — has been gutted over objections from Senate Democrats; it had already been watered down in order to earn Roberts’ support.
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