Colorado is now the nation’s fourth-most-expensive state to live in and third-least-attractive in which to open new businesses.
Let those stats soak in.
That’s No. 47 for affordability and No. 48 for new businesses per thousand residents.
As The Gazette reports, the Colorado Chamber of Commerce’s Colorado Scorecard charted the state 34th in affordability just four years ago. It has worsened every year since.
Colorado ranks 48th for housing affordability, dropping from 41st in 2021. A Gazette analysis shows the median listing price of a single-family home was over $600,000 in Boulder, Broomfield, Douglas, Elbert and Jefferson counties at February’s end.
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