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In interviews, both the head of the Colorado Municipal League, Kevin Bommer, and Denver’s current mayor, Michael B. Hancock, touted regional collaboration as a solution to the affordability crisis.
在采访中，科罗拉多州市政联盟主席凯文·波默和丹佛市现任市长迈克尔·汉考克都将区域合作吹捧为解决无法负担买房危机的办法。
But just as one town cannot ensure that the entire region maintains adequate green space while increasing density, it cannot force neighboring towns to work together to find the right balance.
但是，正如一个城镇无法在增加密度的同时确保整个地区拥有足够的绿化空间一样，这个城镇也不能迫使邻近城镇共同努力，找到合适的平衡点。
The incentive is too strong for an individual government to say to its neighbor, “You can have all the apartments—we’ll just keep our parks.”
这种动机过于强烈，以至于单个政府无法对邻近政府说：“你可以拥有所有的公寓——我们只保留我们的公园。”
In addition to the Colorado Municipal League, Colorado has several influential regional associations, including the Metro Mayors Caucus and Colorado Counties Inc.
除了科罗拉多州市政联盟，科罗拉多州还有几个有影响力的地区协会，包括都市市长核心会议与科罗拉多县公司。
Yet greater Denver is still tens of thousands of housing units short of its needs.
然而，面积更大的丹佛地区仍短缺数万套住房。
The Denver metro area is particularly desperate for small multifamily dwellings (two to nine units) to meet the demand for affordable housing.
丹佛都市区尤其迫切需要多户小型住宅(2-9户)，以满足对经济适用房的需求。
According to Carrie Makarewicz, a professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, roughly 10 percent of homes in the region meet this criteria.
科罗拉多大学丹佛分校教授卡丽·马卡雷维茨表示，该地区大约有10%的家庭符合这一标准。
By contrast, 85 percent of residentially zoned land is reserved for single-family homes.
相比之下，85%的住宅用地留给了独户住宅。
By this measure, too, the regional associations have come up short.
区域联盟通过实施这一措施也无法达成目标。
Collective-action problems require a body that can hold everyone accountable.
集体行动问题需要一个能让每个人都负起责任的机构。
Regional associations—which rely on voluntary participation—aren’t going to cut it.
依赖于自愿参与的地区协会将无法解决这个问题。
The democratic process begins by defining the democratic body.
民主进程从界定民主机构开始。
And when it comes to housing, the body of concern does not end at a town’s boundary line.
当涉及到住房时，有关民主机构并不止于城镇边界。
People moving to the Denver metro area look across the city and into the suburbs for a place to live.
搬到丹佛都市区的人们会穿过城市，进入郊区寻找住处。
One suburb’s opposition to building more housing directly affects prices miles away, because it constrains the supply in a market that spans municipalities.
一个郊区对建设更多住房的反对直接影响到几英里外的房价，因为此举限制了一个横跨多个城市的市场的供应。
Local governments, in seeking to satisfy local concerns, undermine statewide goals.
地方政府在寻求满足地方关切的过程中破坏了全州的目标。
At least, they do in the absence of state intervention.
至少在缺乏州级政府干预的情况下是这样。
State government is also about what you can do for me, but on average: That’s the electoral reality of representing voters across geographic constituencies.
州政府关心的也是你能为我做些什么，但一般而言：这是代表跨地域选区选民的选举现实。
Governors and other statewide officials are forced to see the bigger picture because they’re accountable not only to the people who live in a particular community, but also to past residents priced out of and displaced from that community, and to future residents as well.
州长以及州级官员被迫看到更大局面，因为他们不仅要对居住在特定社区的人们负责，还要对过去被高价赶出、流离失所的居民负责，也要对未来的居民负责。
(Nor are newcomers overwhelmingly from out of state, as many seem to believe; census data reveal that about 82 percent of moves happen within states.)
(新移民也不像许多人认为的那样：绝大多数都来自州外；人口普查数据显示，约82%的迁移都发生在州内。)
Denver’s city council represents the people of Denver, not Aurora, and vice versa. The state represents them all.
丹佛市议会代表的是丹佛人民，而不是奥罗拉人民，反之亦然。而整个州代表的是所有人民。
And in recent polling, 60 percent of registered voters supported eliminating local restrictions to allow for multifamily housing.
在最近的民意调查中，60%的登记选民支持取消地方对多户住宅的限制。
