A new modular home community in Norwood creates a model for affordable housing in mountain communities with donated land, low-interest loans.
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A modular home community near Telluride may become a national model. But getting it open hasn’t been easy.
Pinion Park residents are settling into Norwood. Among the lessons learned: don’t ship, assemble and finish the homes in winter.
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“The future of housing” takes shape at Buena Vista factory
A housing crisis solution with modular homes, philanthropy, unique lending and free land is threatened by local zoning and code regulations
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Housing Lottery: Inside a manufactured neighborhood fighting Colorado’s high country housing crisis
At Norwood’s Pinion Park, a model to make homes affordable for paycheck-to-paycheck residents is put to the test
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What’s Working: Same Denver house, same price, but $190 more per month
The biggest inflation news this week erupted Wednesday as the Federal Reserve announced the largest interest rate increase since 1994. While expected, that doesn’t make it any easier for those hunting for a new house, especially in Colorado, and realizing the monthly cost may have gone up hundreds of dollars in one week. But don’t […]
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A Black separatist group’s utopian dream for land near Telluride withered after an armed standoff
When Black Hammer came to Beaver Pines, a sparsely populated neighborhood on the high desert about 25 miles west of Telluride, they came for the soil. They were about two dozen leftist revolutionaries, almost all people of color. In Denver and other U.S. cities, the group’s chapters had spent the pandemic handing out food and […]
Posted inEconomy, Energy, News
Some worried western Montrose County would fade after the coal plant closed. It hasn’t.
Nucla — Brad Campbell took the best job he could after graduating high school, working at the local coal-fired power plant for up to $42 an hour. He got married, bought a house and paid it off in three years. When he learned Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association would close the Nucla plant early, in […]
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Opinion: Colorado’s small-town newspapers connect communities – and deserve community support
Imagine, for a moment, that you live in a rural Colorado community of, say, 1,000 people. Then imagine a major news event happening in your town. You know, like a dangerous pandemic, invisible and deadly, that threatens your neighbors, your friends, your family. Where do you go for the latest information on health guidelines, on […]
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It took an act of Congress to get two Colorado peaks named for renowned alpinist couple who died while climbing in Tibet
Deep in the rugged Wilson Range of southwestern Colorado’s San Juan Mountains sit two mountains linked by a toothy ridgeline. The taller one, at 13,498 feet, is steep, formidable and remote, with a striking couloir gashed across its east face. The shorter one, which rises to 13,123, is symmetrical, picturesque, with easier scrambles to its […]