During last week’s opening ceremonies, Gov. Jared Polis and Colorado’s lawmakers sought to pick up where last year’s regular and special session left off by immediately focusing on one of the state’s most persistent problems — the lack of affordable housing units.
Here are five takeaways:
Housing, housing, housing
Polis set the tone of the first few days of session by bluntly telling lawmakers that Coloradans are desperate for affordable housing and they’re impatient for concrete solutions.
“There is a real sense of hopelessness and despair in our state around housing that’s on par, in many ways, with how people feel about the divisiveness of our national politics,” the governor said in his State of the State address.