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Category: Social justice

Posted inSocial justice

Nonprofit coalition aims to buy down homes to create affordable housing

by Andrew Travers March 13, 2023March 15, 2023

The group would give homeowners cash to help make the purchase — $100,000 or more, coalition members estimate — in exchange for placing a deed restriction on the properties at purchase to keep them occupied by local people who intend to live there full time.

Director of Growing Years Basalt, Adele Melnick, hands a wooden block to Lucas Gardner, 1.5.
Posted inLocal Public Data

Report sheds light on child care capacity gap across the Aspen-to-Parachute region

Avatar photo by Laurine Lassalle March 5, 2023March 14, 2023

The Licensed Provider Survey Data Report, released last month by Confluence Early Childhood Education Coalition (CECE), showed that there is about one licensed spot available for every two kids across the region, with capacity constraint driven by low teachers pay and high cost of living in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys.

Posted inSocial justice

With $2.4 million purchase, nonprofit is testing ‘intervention model’ to keep trailer parks out of private equity’s hands

by Andrew Travers December 2, 2022December 3, 2022

The four Krueger children — Bern, John, Karl and Celynn — know they could have made more money from the 3-Mile sale. But they agreed that their father would have wanted them to find a path to preserve the community he had fostered for nearly 40 years.

Posted inSocial justice

Habitat for Humanity eyes manufacturing homes locally as future housing solution

by Andrew Travers November 27, 2022November 25, 2022

With $2.1 million in seed money, Schwartz told potential investors in a Nov. 17 pitch in Carbondale, Habitat could open its own modular manufacturing plant and build more than 600 affordable homes here in the next five years.  

Posted inSocial justice

The most tenacious freelancers of the new West

Hector Salas by Hector Salas March 19, 2022March 22, 2022

Between the prosperity of ski towns such as Aspen and Snowmass, in their nooks and crannies, the grit that is the working class conducts its business. 

Afternoon rush-hour traffic at Aspen’s roundabout as cars leave town, driving downvalley on Highway 82.
Posted inLocal Public Data

2020 census data highlights the relationship between resort communities and downvalley locales

Avatar photo by Laurine Lassalle September 11, 2021April 12, 2022

The population in Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin counties is expanding and becoming more diverse, with the Latino population growing faster than the white population between 2010 and 2020, according to data published last month by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Courtesy Voces Unidas
Posted inSocial justice

As Latino COVID vaccinations lag in the region, activists push for systemic change

Hector SalasAvatar photo by Hector Salas and Laurine Lassalle May 14, 2021April 12, 2022

In Eagle County, which has the largest Latino population among the three counties making up the Roaring Fork Valley, 60% of white people have received one dose, compared with 15% of Latinos.

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Pandemic exposes valley’s digital divide

Lindsay Fendt by Lindsay Fendt April 12, 2021April 22, 2021

Technological inequities have long been present in rural places, but the COVID-19 shutdowns illuminated just how deeply entrenched the problem was.

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