Increasing Affordability
Our high cost of living makes it challenging for middle class locals to thrive, especially with the increase in housing prices and the large number of second-home owners. This is a true crisis in Colorado. We need legislation that supports affordable housing and economic policy that benefits everyone. My work has focused on lowering costs for Colorado families through teacher home-ownership programs, child care tax credits, property tax relief, and affordable housing incentives.
My 2026 Sponsored Legislation:
SB26-122: Fuel Standards and Liability of Petroleum Storage Tank Fund
We protected reliable fuel access for rural Colorado and boosted funding available to clean up contaminated petroleum storage sites.
My 2025 Sponsored Legislation:
SB25-167, Invest State Funds to Benefit Communities
This law creates the Educator-First Home-ownership Program through the Public School Permanent Fund to help teachers buy homes in communities where they work. In many Colorado districts, less than 20% of homes are affordable for teachers on their salaries. The program provides down payment assistance to educators while still generating returns for the fund, helping teachers stay in their communities.
My 2024 Sponsored Legislation:
HB24-1237: Development of Early Child Care Facilities
This bipartisan law creates multiple programs to ease the burden on our community’s parents and childcare providers. It works to ease the navigation and creation of childcare facilities.
HB24-1431: Housing for Survivors of Abuse
This bipartisan law creates a program to provide short-term financial assistance for survivors of domestic or sexual violence. Protecting our most vulnerable families from facing homelessness, this law appropriates funds to be contracted to community organizations providing domestic and sexual violence intervention services to address clients’ most immediate housing needs.
HB24-1314: Preservation of Historic Structures
As important pieces of our past, we value historic spaces and the heritage they preserve. This law expands the existing tax credit for the preservation of historic structures while increasing opportunities for historic structures to be used for affordable housing.
SB24-233: The Property Tax Bill
This bipartisan legislation advances a long-term, permanent solution to reducing property taxes for homeowners and small businesses.
My 2023 Sponsored Legislation:
SB23-001: Supporting Affordable Housing
We allowed and incentivized public-private partnerships to develop affordable housing on unused state land.
HB23-1112: Child Tax Credits
This law increases earned income and child tax credits, returning over $170 million more to hardworking families and helps ensure our tax code works for all Coloradans.
HB23-1091: Child Care Tax Credit
We Extended child care contribution tax credit to incentivize charitable donations to child care providers and training programs.
As your representative, I will continue to:
Work to ensure all community members can afford to live in our beautiful towns.
Fight for affordable housing opportunities.
Advocate for access to quality jobs.
Promote access to affordable early childhood education.
Represent constituents and stakeholders invested in affordability.