Housing

Part Land Bank, Part Community-Focused Credit Line

Denver's Urban Land Conservancy aims to put transit-oriented development to work for the greater good.
The Evans Station Lofts opened last year, bringing 50 units of workforce housing next to a light rail stop.Urban Land Conservancy

Denver is gentrifying.

In the 1980s, the Colorado state capital appeared—like so many other American cities—to be serving a sentence of death by parking lot. These days, it is looking more like the city whose street scene once put "the most wicked grin of joy in the world" on the face of Jack Kerouac.