Resources
Public Official’s Guide
This public official’s guide “Nobody’s home free: A closer look at Colorado’s housing crisis” was originally published in early 2016. This newly updated version was re-released in Summer of 2018. It is intended to inform candidates running for local or state elected office of the issues surrounding affordable housing in Colorado, and shares the important role local leaders can play in finding solutions. We encourage you to connect with current elected leaders and candidates running for office in your area and share this guide to demonstrate the importance of affordable housing to the well-being of our communities. By offering this guide you’ll establish yourself as a resource for elected officials that could make a difference for years to come.
Benefiting Communities
This resource, released in October 2017, demonstrates the importance of housing options to the well-being of neighborhoods. It is a proactive resource highlighting the health, balance, and economic investment that affordable housing provides. We encourage you to read the statistics and quotes from our community partners who contributed to this project. This resource makes a compelling argument for housing diversity in Colorado neighborhoods.
Beneficios para las Comunidades
La base de una comunidad próspera es viviendas para todos. Cada residente de Colorado es una persona única, por lo tanto, necesitamos una diversidad de viviendas para cumplir con las necesidades de todas las personas en la comunidad.
Benefiting Lives: Affordable Housing Helps People
This resource, released in August 2017, tells the story of Colorado residents from around the state and in their own words allows them to explain what affordable housing means to them. We encourage you to read their stories and their internal perspective on affordable housing. This resource demonstrates the impact that affordable housing has on the well-being of Colorado citizens.
PowerPoint Presentation
This presentation is designed for you to use on the go when you are making presentations to community partners, elected officials, and any other group who wants to know more about local affordable housing issues. The presentation highlights the state’s affordable housing need, stock and the economic impacts, but also leaves room for you to add local facts and updates. Use this presentation when you need to speak at a town hall gathering, city council meeting, or other affordable housing forum.
Live Affordably Colorado Public Service Announcements
These PSAs were released on October 13, 2016 with the intent to inform and educate Coloradans about why affordable housing matters. These PSAs were designed to drive viewers to the liveaffordablycolorado.org website where they can read the reports and learn more about the statistics behind housing needs in Colorado. The “Happy Moments” video shares the message that affordable housing generates a happy and healthy society. The “Empty Fridge” video shows that all types of different Colorado workers are feeling squeezed and are struggling to afford living here. This video demonstrates that a lack of affordable housing options is impacting more and more segments of society – not only extremely low income households, but families squarely in the middle class and those who provide essential services to our community, such as nurses, firefighters and teachers. Housing Colorado (the organization who runs the Live Affordably Colorado campaign) partnered with Colorado Municipal League to distribute this on all Colorado local channel 8 stations. They also partnered with Denver Open Media to distribute the video on their Comcast and Century Link channels; to vote for these videos so that they get a wider distribution click here for “Happy Moments” and click here for “Empty Fridge.”