Boulder has been very expensive since the late '80s when the Danish plan was enacted (named after local Paul Danish, not Denmark). No more than two or three bu

Boulder has been very expensive since the late '80s when the Danish plan was enacted (named after local Paul Danish, not Denmark). No more than two or three building permits were issued in Boulder proper over the course of 15 or 20 years, which naturally made the existing housing stock ridiculously expensive. It's actually the textbook example of how to ruin a good thing by trying to prevent it from ever changing with restrictive laws.