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Guest Post: Provide Colorado’s immigrant families rental relief

Ana and her husband, both undocumented housekeepers for a hotel in Vail, have been dreading the arrival of the first of the month.  They...

Three weeks into Colorado’s push for social distancing, halfway houses struggle to comply 'Our...

Group meetings. Board games. Communal dining. Sleeping in bunk beds. New residents coming in and out.  Some residents in Colorado’s halfway houses say they’ve seen...
Brendan Greene, a member of the East Colfax Community Collective, speaks about the group's recommendations for development in the East Colfax area at the Queen of Sheba restaurant on Feb. 5, 2020. (Photo by Forest Wilson)

East Denver small business owners want say in development plan to prevent displacement Businesses...

A group of East Denver residents and business owners is calling upon the city to ensure that community members can shape development plans for...

A debate over ‘accessory dwelling units’ in Colorado Springs highlights affordable housing tensions Known...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Del Huff has lived here in Colorado’s second-largest city for nearly a quarter of a century. He and his wife own...
Colorado researchers for the first time have mapped the overlap between housing-insecurity and mental health needs, creating a tool that could better guide help to vulnerable areas. (Photo by Hunter McGinnis, via Flickr: Creative Commons)

Research: Colorado has 71 census tracts where high rates of mental health issues and...

Researchers seeking to better understand where the lack of affordable housing intersects with mental health needs in Colorado have for the first time mapped...

Denver’s one-day, one-stop event to help those needing stable housing draws hundreds More than...

As a biting wind delivered the first inches of snow for the year on Thursday morning, hundreds of people experiencing homelessness gathered inside of...

Parked: Routt County manufactured homes by the numbers In just the last 10 years,...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Routt County’s manufactured home supply has been almost reduced by half in just the last decade. Routt County Assessor Gary Peterson noted...

Parked: Ouray woman watches a mobile-home investment evaporate with her mother’s death The single-wide...

For many Coloradans, the purchase of a single- or double-wide trailer represents their variation on the American dream of home ownership and a slice...

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

Editor’s note: The subject of the story has asked her real name be withheld out of fear for her safety due to a previous...

Parked: Mobile-home dwellers left behind after 2013 Colorado floods In just Lyons, Evans, south...

LYONS — When the flood waters in 2013 subsided, tens of thousands of evacuees along Colorado’s Front Range returned to see what happened to...