Although it’s too early to know the full scope of water quality issues at mobile home parks across Colorado, Hosie expects that problems are more likely to be found in communities such as Apple Tree that have their own water system.
Tag: 3-Mile Mobile Home Park
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Mobile home park residents to ask Garfield County to opt-in to state funds for affordable housing
Proposition 123 funds are only available to local governments, including towns, cities and counties, that opt-in to the program, and Garfield County is one of 21 out of 64 counties in the state that hasn’t opted-in.
Posted inIn search of community
Housing solutions are many and challenging
The housing issue has become a pressing concern throughout the region, where necessity becomes the mother of invention as seen in varied approaches striving to address a growing community crisis.
Posted inSocial justice
Organizing mobile-home owners as investors gobble up parks
What Sullivan and his neighbors worry about — corporate ownership takeover, creeping unaffordability, the potential for the park to be displaced by redevelopment — is happening at an accelerating rate, both in the Roaring Fork Valley and across Colorado, prompting stronger policy prescriptions from elected officials and community leaders.
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With $2.4 million purchase, nonprofit is testing ‘intervention model’ to keep trailer parks out of private equity’s hands
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.