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Jeff Wilson Libertarian Party
Residence: Denver
Profession: Landlord
Education: College
Experience: Experience with housing issues and housing affordability, Previous candidate for Aurora City Council, Graduate of Aurora Citizens Academy
What are your top three priorities, if elected?
1. Achieving Housing affordability by listening to the science and world best practices
2. Eliminating homelessness while reducing the budget by vastly increasing the use of strategically placed pallet shelter communities, and eliminating the use of high cost retrofitted end of life hotels
3. Offering a real alternative to the the angry polarization of the two-party system, which too often prioritizes scoring political points over fixing real world problems. I want to replace partisan conflict with practical, evidence based results that actually serve our communities. I am offering a clear third way forward: a pragmatic, independent approach dedicated to enabling and defending Coloradans, analyzing what genuinely works, and delivering sensible, long-term answers for our state
What specific actions would you support to improve affordability for Coloradans, whether aimed at housing costs, tax burdens or other impacts?
We need to listen to the science, look at what has already worked around the world, and use evidence based results to solve affordability and especially housing affordability. Unfortunately, the two major political parties continue to ignore these proven solutions.
Legalize Housing Variety: Abolish single-family and other non-safety-related zoning laws. This includes eliminating minimum lot or unit sizes, removing mandatory parking minimums, and allowing homeowners to build Accessory Dwelling Units
Cut Red Tape: This can be accomplished much how the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certifications are done.
Adopt a Land Value Tax (LVT): Shift property taxes to the unimproved value of land to incentivize the development of vacant lots and underutilized urban space.
Whether your party is in the majority or minority next year, where do you see actionable common ground with the opposing party?
The overlap of Libertarian ideas with the Republican and Democrats are often quite extensive, and I consider both of them to be allies in the quest in defending everyone’s rights, freedoms and in developing consent based polices.
Republicans: Overlap centers on fiscal discipline and limited government. Advocating reducing spending and balancing the budget, rolling back non safety related regulatory burdens on small businesses, and expanding educational freedom and school choice.
Democrats: Common ground emerges around civil liberties and individual autonomy. Reforming criminal justice, limiting qualified immunity and civil asset forfeiture, decriminalizing victimless offenses, protecting digital privacy, and easing restrictive zoning regulations to increase housing options
A new governor will take office next year. What opportunities are there for legislation or other changes that did not gain traction under Gov. Jared Polis?
Enacting Proportional Representation for the State Legislature
Enacting Ranked Choice Voting
Codifying strict open records and lobbying disclosure requirements for the executive branch. Specifically addressing the bipartisan administration lobbying transparency bill (SB 147) that Gov. Polis vetoed in 2026.
Jennifer Bacon did not return the questionnaire.
