Write Your Senator: Vote YES on SB24-094 “Safe Housing for Residential Tenants”
We all deserve to live in safe housing! Write a letter to your senator urging their support on SB24-094.
We all deserve to live in safe housing! Write a letter to your senator urging their support on SB24-094.
Hi Friend, We are in the thick of legislative session at the state and federal level and our teams are working tirelessly to advocate for policies that put people first. In Colorado we continue to fight for stronger renters rights, climate justice, and to ensure water quality for residents while at the same time our…
Esta capacitación de Conozca sus derechos es para residentes que viven en Denver Cascade Mobile Home Park. 9to5 Colorado y Colorado Poverty Law Project realizarán esta capacitación de manera conjunta. Esta capacitación solo está abierta a residentes que viven en este parque y no trabajan para la administración actual o el propietario del parque. This…
We’re thrilled to launch 9to5 Colorado’s new podcast: Voces de Resistencia! Each episode will give you an inside look into a piece of 9to5’s iconic history, the intricacies of organizing, and a deeper dive into each of our campaigns from members of our team. We can’t wait to share our voices of resistance with you!…
Dismayed by changes in local mobile home parks, State lawmakers from Northern Colorado are proposing a sweeping new bill that would include the first statewide mandate for rent stabilization, which is similar to rent control. The bill which would cap rent hikes on mobile home lots each year is a response to the influx of…
While Colorado’s economy seems to be booming, many Coloradans are barely scraping by, or are faced with making big changes to their daily habits to afford living there. The portion of Coloradans listing the high cost of living as one of their “extremely or very serious” problems rose to 88% in 2022 from 63% in 2020,…
In 2023, some state legislators are pushed to repeal the 1981 Colorado rent control. ban. The Repeal Prohibition Local Residential Rent Control repealed a provision in state law that prohibits rent control policies in the state of Colorado. Representatives Javier Mabrey and Elizabeth Velasco, along with Senator Robert Rodriguez, have sponsored the legislation. Mabrey says…
Many Coloradans living in lower-income households are at higher risk of harm from climate change as well as environmental racism and injustice in their day-to-day costs of living. Senior organizer for 9to5 Colorado, Hannah Recht, shares sources of air and water pollution including highways, refineries and coal-fired power plants, which have been zoned for and…
60 years after the signing of the Equal Pay Act, women still only make 84 cents for every dollar men make. 9to5 Colorado Organizer Edith Mata speaks with CBS Weekend News about continues struggle for gender equality and equal pay. Watch. the full interview here.
In 2020, Colorado voters approved a new paid family and medical leave law. Under Proposition 118, Colorado would require that employers provide 12 weeks of paid time off for childbirth and family emergencies. Eight other states and Washington, D.C., have created similar programs in the last two decades. For years business interests have paid leave measures,…
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