In a three-hour public meeting last night, the Denver Planning Commission heard public comments from supporters and opponents of the City’s proposed zoning regulations for short-term rentals.
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Denver Passes Condominium Construction Defect Ordinance
On Monday night (November 23, 2015), Denver City Council voted to approve the construction defect ordinance proposed by Mayor Hancock.
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Mayor Hancock’s Construction Defect Ordinance Passes Important Hurdle
On November 16, 2015, the Denver City Council unanimously approved the first reading of Mayor Hancock’s construction defect ordinance that we wrote about last month.
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Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: HUD Promulgates Final Rule
Only a few weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision upholding disparate impact as basis for liability under the Fair Housing Act (the Act; for further discussion of the case, see our blog posts here and here), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) promulgated a new rule implementing the Act.
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Is Renting Your Home on Airbnb Illegal? Maybe.
One of the biggest players in what’s been dubbed the “sharing economy” is Airbnb, a peer-to-peer lodging platform that makes it easy for homeowners or renters to open up their homes to strangers in the form of short-term lodging. For many of the families renting their homes or rooms in their homes on Airbnb and other sites, the income from a short-term rental can provide a financial cushion, and may be enough to make ends meet. One study commissioned by Airbnb found that a typical single-property host makes an average of $7,530 for renting an average of 66 days per year.
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