Last week a Colorado House of Representatives committee rejected a billthat tried to address the state’s dearth of new condominiums by limiting construction-defects litigation that could be filed against them. This week, one of its key members will ask the state Senate to accept his alternative affordable-housing package instead.
Majority House Democrats on Friday gave final approval to the first of three bills offered by Rep. Max Tyler, D-Lakewood, to spur lower-cost owner-occupied multi-family housing — a measure that would create significant new funding for affordable-housing construction and rental vouchers.
And after receiving preliminary approval on the same day, two more bills — one to increase the attractiveness of low-income housing tax credits and the other to create a voluntary quality-control program for builders — are expected to get House OKs this morning and then head to the Senate.
On their face, the bills have some business backing. Builders expressed interest in the additional funding incentives to build working-class housing, and the Property and Casualty Insurers Association of America testified that the creation of a state-run inspection program would allow them to manage risk better in lawsuit-attracting condominium projects.
Senate Majority Leader Mark Scheffel — the Parker Republican who co-sponsored the widely supported construction-defects bill that met its end in the House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee on April 27 — said that each bill would be considered on its own merits. But such discussions rarely happen in a vacuum in the Legislature.
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