The Colorado Futures Center has been tracking migration and has found “increasing churn” in and out of Denver, particularly in areas of the city especially vulnerable to economic pressures, said Je…
— the difference between those two numbers — dropped significantly in 2021, to 15,477. It was Colorado’s weakest net migration number since about 2005, the state found.
Melissa Mejía serves as the director of state and local policy at the Community Economic Defense Project, which helps support Coloradans facing evictions. She said that, of the people she grew up with on Denver’s Northside, none have been able to afford to buy a house in the neighborhood.Gustavo Navarrete Hernández and his partner Atanea Gonzalez Ramoz hang out with their children Vladislav, 11, Lestat, 9, and Yaotzin, 6, at the family’s home in Denver on Tuesday, March 21, 2023.
The couple house-hunted for about two years during the pandemic, searching for a Denver place in the $350,000 range. “There’s a limit to having a well-functioning economy if folks through the entire profile of what you need for a healthy labor market can’t afford to live in a region,” she said. “If we don’t have enough folks to work in the service jobs we rely on every day, at some point, things start to become a challenge.”While not far from Denver proper, the message Mitchell received from his homebuying experience was that he wasn’t the target audience for the city where he was born and raised.
For fun, Whiskey looked up apartments in Long Beach, California, where she went to school — and was shocked to see she wasn’t paying too far off from that in Denver. “It feels like the city doesn’t care here, which feels silly to say, but I just can’t justify the price for what I was getting,” Whiskey said.
Climbing rents, and the moving costs when he could no longer afford apartments, led to the slow decline of his entertaining lifestyle. In Denver, Fetch said he was paying $300 a month for his car insurance, which is now $200 a month cheaper. What Fetch lost in fun he’s making up in funds. The family used up their savings trying to make ends meet, he said, but were eventually evicted from their one-bedroom apartment when they couldn’t make rent.
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