STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Christina Allevato Payton had a rare find in Steamboat Springs: a waterfront home for under $1 million. “I probably lived in a $2 million spot with an amazing view,” she said. “It was on just one street, so it was a very friendly neighborhood. We were very closely knit. It was nice because […]
Parked: Half the American Dream
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Parked: Mobile-home dwellers left behind after 2013 Colorado floods
LYONS — When the flood waters in 2013 subsided, tens of thousands of evacuees along Colorado’s Front Range returned to see what happened to their homes. One of them was Amanda Anderson. “All of it was just mud,” Anderson said. “It was so dark in there because of the mud. It was like walking into […]
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Parked: Fire can be risky, deadly drawback of living in mobile homes
GREELEY — For many with low or fixed incomes, mobile homes provide an affordable housing option that’s hard to beat as housing costs continue to rise in Colorado. But that affordability can come at a cost, one residents of the Holiday Village mobile-home community in Greeley paid in full nearly 15 years ago. In 2004, […]
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Parked: Residents of Greeley-area mobile home park feel abandoned
GREELEY— Steve Spencer has lived in the Hill-N-Park subdivision in unincorporated Weld County on and off since he was 16. At 42, Spencer is thinking about moving his family after issues in the subdivision have become too much. Imagined as a master-planned community south of the city limits of Greeley and adjacent to Evans, the […]
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Parked: “Priced out of our hometown,” rising lot rents squeezing out mobile-home park residents
Durango resident Dave Bray has lived in the mobile-home park on Animas View Drive for more than 30 years, but in the next year he plans to move out of town because of rising lot rent. “There’s a lot of us that would like to live and die here. … We are getting priced right […]