April 11, 2025: Immigrant taxpayers’ dilemma, homebuyers’ market, transgender care bill, new music venue

Colorado’s new immigrants face a tough new question about whether to keep paying their taxes if it could lead to deportation. Then, we break down the latest housing market numbers for metro Denver. Plus, Colorado could soon have a new law that requires health insurers to cover gender affirming care. And there’s a new music venue coming to the metro area. This episode of Colorado Today is hosted by Bazi Kanani. It’s edited and produced by Jo Erickson, Mateo Schimpf, and Stephanie Wolf. The executive producer is Rachel Estabrook. Theme music by Pedro Lumbraño. Email us at coloradotoday@cpr.org. Colorado Today is supported by CPR’s members . Read more on the stories in today’s show: The Purplish podcast has the full story about Colorado Democrats’ efforts to protect transgender people . Denverite’s Kevin J. Beaty reports on immigrants filing taxes in Aurora . NPR reports on the IRS’ agreement to share tax information with immigration enforcement . Denverite’s Andrew Kenney has the latest on home sales in metro Denver . CPR’s Bente Birkeland reports on proposed legal protections for transgender Coloradans . CPR’s Lauren Antonoff Hart has arts and culture happenings this weekend .