Denver's seven dedicated sales taxes raise money for parks, homeless programs, preschool, scholarships, healthy food, climate change and mental health. Voters could consider two more in 2024.
Mayor Mike Johnston and supporters of a ballot measure that would have raised Denver sales taxes to fund affordable housing programs and investment have conceded defeat in Tuesday's election.
Share ; Mayor Mike Johnston is pushing a plan to create 44,000 units of affordable housing over the next 10 years through a new sales tax. ; “Denver can’t afford to wait,” he said. ; He’s calling his proposal the Affordable Denver Fund, and he says passing it and creating housing is urgent if Denver is going to remain a desirable place to live.
It’s a fast-lane approach to homelessness resolution that would skip over the converted hotel shelters and micro-communities that so far have been the central pillars of Mayor Mike Johnston’s All In Mile High homelessness initiative. The City Council on Monday voted 8 to 2 to authorize a two-year contract with Housing Connector to power that work. ...
The Colorado General Assembly gaveled in this morning for what members hope will be a three-day dash of lawmaking that ends in a final truce in the long-running political fight over property tax policy. Updated at 6:20 p.m.: The House Appropriations Committee has advanced the primary property tax bill on a vote of 8-3. Two Democrats, Reps. Emily Sirota and Elizabeth Velasco, and Republican Rep. Scott Bottoms voted in opposition. Supporting lawmakers argued ballot initiatives 50 and 108 posed too...
Denver city leaders plan to ask voters in November to increase the sales tax rate to pay for more affordable housing projects and help Mayor Mike Johnston meet his housing development goals.
Denver plans to close four migrant shelters over the next month, potentially saving up to $60 million this year and reducing the need for budget cuts, Mayor Mike Johnston said Wednesday. The closures will leave three hotel shelters open for migrants, along with a couple congregate shelter spaces. But Johnston warned the closure plan could change if the city sees massive surges of arrivals and again has to increase its shelter space and migrant services. He also took issue with claims this week b...
Denver has taken in $1.1 billion from sales taxes dedicated to college scholarships, parks, climate and more. But City Councilman Kevin Flynn and other critics have questioned their spending.
Colorado’s Democrats are officially working overtime this holiday season to … brace yourselves … lower taxes. No, hell hasn’t frozen over. Rather, Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, recognizes that voters trusted both Republicans and Democrats in 2020. Failure to reduce property taxes in the face of this unsustainable increase is a betrayal of that trust. He called lawmakers back for a special session to act quickly before tax bills are set for March. Three years ago, Coloradans supported Ame...
The Denver City Council gave the go-ahead Monday to dedicate $15 million in marijuana sales tax money to a new investment fund that will support minority- and women-owned businesses.