The Unrepentant Tenant
Rent control: Why or why not?
My debut column two weeks ago went into an abbreviated history of rent control (RC) in Boulder and Colorado. Now it’s time to deal...
Rent relief in St. Paul and the Polis betrayal
Two very different stories have big implications for renters.
A bright spot for Boulder renters on repairs
In my last column (Unrepentant Tenant, “Do tenants have a right to a habitable home?”, Sept. 8, 2022), I wrote about the history of...
Resources for Boulder renters
'Tis the season for Boulder’s population to significantly increase, mostly with student renters. Given that migration, dance with me as I pivot from rent...
The worst thing that can happen to a tenant
One of the worst housing crises — if not life crises — a tenant can face is eviction. The U.S. is in the throes...
Unrepentant Tenant
The Unrepentant Tenant last outlined tenant activism in Boulder through the 1970s, with the Boulder County Tenant’s Organization (BCTO) based on the CU campus...
The fantasy of inflation increasing rents
It seems that locally and nationally, housing prices may have peaked, in that there are fewer bidding wars over units for sale, and houses/condos...
Help for tenants facing eviction
A quick clarification of something I wrote in my Sept. 8, 2022 column about the warranty of habitability for renters: While CU students can...
The hidden history of tenant activism in Boulder, part 1
I'm now going to switch focus from rent control to the broader issue of tenant issues. Tenant protection receives relatively little media coverage, even...
Do tenants have a right to a habitable home? Yes, but…
The most common problem for tenants by far is not getting their deposit back—but that subject will have to wait for another column.
Probably the...
Boiling frogs
Editor’s note: Welcome to the first installment of The Unrepentant Tenant, a biweekly column diving into the history, mythology and impact of rent control...
Interest on deposits and repairs for tenants
Returning to the evolving tenant’s movement in Boulder, my last column promised to delve further into the battle to obtain interest on deposits, and...
