
Relatively few property owners have been moved by the incentive, though, and Excise and Licenses is concerned that there will be a rush in December.

There is a fee exception for affordable or public housing properties. In addition to the application fee, licenses will run $50 for a single dwelling unit, $100 for two to ten units, $250 for eleven to fifty units, $350 for 51 to 250 units, and $500 for 251 or more units. To try to incentivize rental-property owners to apply early, the department is cutting the price of application fees in half, from $50 to $25, through the end of 2022. Single-unit rentals represent approximately 25,000 more properties that must be licensed by January 2024 under the program.

"We've got plenty of data that shows a lot of people live in rentals that do not meet our minimum housing standards in the City and County of Denver,” Denver City Councilwoman Stacie Gilmore told Westword in March, adding that she hoped the program will empower people in bad housing situations.ĭenver estimates that there are at least 25,000 multi-unit properties that will need to be licensed by January 2023, but the city has only issued 131 rental licenses so far and has just another 56 applications under review.

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The license is a requirement of the Healthy Residential Rentals for All ordinance, passed by Denver City Council in May 2021 and designed to even the playing field between renters and landlords. The Denver Department of Excise and Licenses issued its first large-scale residential rental license for an apartment complex on July 21, to the 321-unit AMLI Denargo Market apartment complex at 2525 Wewatta Way.
