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Parked: Colorado towns are taking action to preserve their remaining mobile-home parks
Cities, counties and housing authorities in Colorado are buying mobile home parks to spare them from market-rate redevelopment
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Parked: Ouray woman watches a mobile-home investment evaporate with her mother’s death
By Mike Wiggins Coloradans Primary category in which blog post is published
Parked: Routt County manufactured homes by the numbers
By Bryce Martin Coloradans Primary category in which blog post is published
Parked: Aurora considers how to preserve mobile-home parks after park’s closure
By Kara Mason Coloradans Primary category in which blog post is published
Parked: Fort Collins considers reforms to preserve 30 mobile home parks and improve conditions
By Jacy Marmaduke Coloradans Primary category in which blog post is published
Parked: Mobile-home dwellers left behind after 2013 Colorado floods
In just Lyons, Evans, south of Greeley, and Miliken, southeast of Loveland, the flood destroyed 273 mobile homes, most of which were never replaced
Parked: Fire can be risky, deadly drawback of living in mobile homes
The most severe risks are in homes built before 1976, when HUD set improved safety and construction standards
Parked: “Priced out of our hometown,” rising lot rents squeezing out mobile-home park residents
Even for Durango's middle class, the numbers don't always add up to an affordable housing option -- and some point the finger at corporate park owners
An army of teen employees is helping fight a Colorado tourist town’s worker shortage
About 75% of the freshman class is at work this summer, and still, shops and restaurants close early or open late due to affordable-housing sparked worker shortage
State and local laws push more registered sex offenders into low-income Colorado communities
Data shows disproportionate number of offenders live in impoverished neighborhoods, and community organizers aren’t happy about it.
Colorado needs affordable housing. The state owns land. Can this combination work?
Gov. Jared Polis is urging the State Land Board to address housing shortage for teachers, part of a campaign promise he made
To help fill the affordable housing gap, a Buena Vista project is creating inventory — one giant box at a time
The nation’s fickle relationship with modular housing may be on the upswing, as one developer scales up to serve rural and mountain communities
