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 The Repeal Prohibition Local Residential Rent Control repealed a provision in state law that prohibits rent control policies in the state of Colorado.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 he wanted to put the bill forward because the state is in a housing crisis, with housing costs increasing statewide by approximately 92 percent since 2011.

The bill does not implement rent control but repeals a ban on related policies enacted by the legislature in 1981. Once passed local governments were able to make their own choices regarding rent control.

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