It's not population growth per se. And blaming poor and working people for all of our ills is just silly. The real problem is bad planning, development, and too many concessions to the rich and powerful. There's no reason that DIA should have been built decades before there was any reasonable mass transit option in place - just for one example. Real estate development should not be left to wild west wheeling and dealing without proper controls and regs. Government is supposed to serve the public interest not business interests and, despite what their propaganda claims or attempts to obscure, they're not the same thing.