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Colorado’s mobile home owners are about to get more leverage in disputes with park owners

Rules begin to emerge for a state-run resolution process that gives residents hope for relief without hiring a lawyer, leveling the playing field

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Parked: Colorado towns are taking action to preserve their remaining mobile-home parks

By Jennifer Brown Growth Primary category in which blog post is published

Parked: New state law brings hope to Colorado’s mobile-home residents

By Jennifer Brown Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published

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: Delta mobile-home resident poisoned by carbon monoxide; rental company denies anything is wrong

By Justin Tubbs 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
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Parked: One of the wealthiest counties in Colorado owns four mobile-home parks, an effort to hold on to affordable housing

Pitkin County owns four parks and the city of Aspen owns one

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Parked: Fort Collins considers reforms to preserve 30 mobile home parks and improve conditions

Moratorium on redevelopment of mobile home park properties will be in effect until August 2020 as city mulls options

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Parked: Eagle County mobile-home parks become immigrants’ home away from home

In a notoriously pricey area, nearly all of them are filled with workers in the hospitality, service and construction industries

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Parked: The saga of Steamboat Springs’ mobile-home parks: Still offering riverfront homes for less than $900K

A planned new development displaced mobile home owners on prime property. Then the recession put plans on hold -- for years.

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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

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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

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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