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Housing

Parked: Residents of Greeley-area mobile home park feel abandoned A community where homeowners also...

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...

Parked: Fire can be risky, deadly drawback of living in mobile homes The most...

GREELEY — For many with low or fixed incomes, mobile homes provide an affordable housing option that’s hard to beat as housing costs continue...

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

Fort Collins leaders are taking advantage of a reshuffled city council lineup to dust off proposed mobile home park reforms that have long failed...

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...

Parked: Aurora considers how to preserve mobile-home parks after park’s closure State law on...

More than a year ago, Aurora was blazing trails in how to handle the battle between mobile home park owners and helpless renters. Now, Aurora...

Parked: One of the wealthiest counties in Colorado owns four mobile-home parks, an effort...

While the existence of five mobile-home parks in Colorado’s wealthiest county might come as a surprise to some, they are actually an integral part...

Parked: Colorado towns are taking action to preserve their remaining mobile-home parks Cities, counties...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Jeff Morehead’s cat slips through the small, square door carved into his wooden fence, a gateway from Morehead’s mobile home lot...

Parked: New state law brings hope to Colorado’s mobile home residents A key part...

In a late-August Sunday afternoon, state Rep. Meg Froelich readied the meeting room at the Sheridan Library for a town hall with constituents. There...
AVON, Colo -- A resident of the Aspens Mobile Home Village takes in the view from the deck of the mobile home she and her family have lived in for about six years. As with other trailer parks, they own the trailer and rent the lot space. She has lived in the U.S. since 2001, and says the Aspens is home, but so is Mexico. Like the mobile home she lives in, she occupies a place of temporary permanence, fixed but not rooted. (Photo by Tina Griego)

Parked: Mobile home parks become immigrants’ home away from home For these Eagle County...

AVON, Colo. —  The Aspens Mobile Home Village sits on a wedge of land tucked between eastbound I-70 and the Eagle River in the...
The Eagle River Village mobile home park is shown in Edwards, Colo., on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, The Park is less than 10 miles from world-class skiing at Beaver Creek Resort and represents one of the last bastions of affordable housing in the area. An estimated 100,000 people live in about 900 mobile home parks across Colorado. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

Parked: A bastion of affordable housing in Colorado is under growing threat Mobile homes...

In the Aurora mobile home park where she lived for 16 years, eviction notices kept coming to Petra Bennett’s door — for unauthorized guests,...
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