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Clash over DIY housing pits activists against city of Denver: Here’s...

Raided It was always going to get shut down. This weekend, a village of hand-built tiny homes sprung up at 2500 Lawrence St., a city-owned plot of land...

Lawmakers tank Homeless Bill of Rights; activists rail

"Shame!" "Shame!" cried a man in the back of the Capitol's largest, packed committee room. The vote was not yet tallied, but it was...

Walking Dead: Doomed-to-die bills and the Colorado lawmakers breathing life into...

Each session, zombie bills lurk at the Colorado Capitol. Minimum wage increases, high-capacity-magazine-ban repeals, the Parent's Bill of Rights, the gay-conversion-therapy ban – these are just...

Lawmakers consider giving the homeless the right to rest

In Wheat Ridge, police arrested people sitting on a bench for loitering near a school; the bench was not near a school. In Boulder, a man...