You can either (1.) build more housing or (2.) not solve the problem. I hope Colorado (and the rest of the country) eventually makes the right choice.

Colorado is at a crossroads, and in a precarious position. As to what quacked said, talk all you want about immigration, but it's not the ones shooting the Darien Gap who are buying 2 bed 2 bath houses in Denver for 1.4 million dollars. But it is true that the immigrants don't help, and drain enormous resources from the state.

No one seems to want to talk about it, but Colorado needs to heavily develop east of I-25. Watkins to Limon needs massively expanded. But it won't be the 'right kind' of people who move/live there and Colorado seems to have no interest in that. And yet they also have no interest in doing anything with the massive homeless and immigrant population. It's like when you do an environmental survey and the best option is... let the bridge collapse.

Nearly one million people became citizens last year, and that doesn't count unregistered crossings. People are shooting the Darien Gap at a chance to get into the US. I am so tired of hearing about the US housing crisis with no mention of the firehose of new people coming into the country, every single one of whom needs housing, and is far more likely to go to an urban center, where the majority of available jobs are and the housing crunch is worst. This is on top of a rural-urban drain occurring all over the US, where younger people are abandoning rural areas to seek their fortunes in cities. A similar immigration crunch is occurring in the wealthier EU countries, and a similar rural-urban crunch is occurring in South Korea, China, and Japan.

Somewhere between 20 and 40 million people have entered the US since 2000 with the intention to stay. The idea that this somehow hasn't exacerbated the housing shortage is absurd. I haven't heard a left-leaning person mention this source of new demand for housing a single time, and I read a lot of housing crisis news.