Related legislation passing, dying as big showdown over construction defects looms

In the past five days, the same Colorado Senate committee passed a bill making it tougher for owners of single-family homes to file construction-defects lawsuits and killed a bill that would have increased funding for affordable housing in Colorado.

But key supporters of the major construction-defects bill of the session — the one scheduled that will attempt to revive the moribund condominium industry in the metro Denver area and that is scheduled for its first hearing on Wednesday — say the…