“Seniors are just such an important part of our community. Many of them are still working … and as we have costs rising so significantly, incomes don’t always keep up and it’s usually those on fixed incomes or limited income mobility that gets squeezed out first.”
Tag: Affordable housing
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Mobile home parks under contract for resident ownership
“It’s amazing that the local community, Basalt, Carbondale and Aspen [and more], came together like this and contributed this staggering amount of money,” he said. “But they can’t keep doing it.”
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Residents and advocates push for stronger mobile home protections as investors buy up properties
“Right now, the residents, even if they have a bid that meets the price, the owner today could choose not to give it to the residents,” Sanchez said. “We believe that’s wrong and we believe that residents should have the opportunity to buy their own park first.”
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COVID-19 was ‘the great accelerator.’ Its impacts are still rippling out.
“It’s convenient for people not to think about the pandemic, and sometimes you sound like a bit of an oddball when you talk about it,” said Katherine Sand, director of the resource center Aspen Family Connections. “But I think it’s a defining moment in our lives.”
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Retiring Habitat for Humanity President Gail Schwartz reflects on decades tackling affordable housing challenges
Habitat for Humanity of the Roaring Fork Valley President and CEO Gail Schwartz announced this month that she’ll be stepping down in April. Reporter Eleanor Bennett spoke with Schwartz about what she’s learned from her decades of work tackling the valley’s affordable housing challenges.
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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.
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Habitat for Humanity’s latest project in Glenwood Springs aims to make homeownership more attainable
Pueden encontrar la versión en español aquí. People working in the Roaring Fork Valley could soon have a new opportunity to buy a condo at a more affordable rate in Glenwood Springs. Local nonprofit Habitat for Humanity of the Roaring Fork Valley (Habitat RFV) has plans to turn an already existing apartment building near the Glenwood […]
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All you need is luck: Playing the odds in APCHA ownership lotteries
From 2002 through 2023, a total of 32,846 bids were made for 1,278 sales of local affordable housing units that went through an APCHA lottery where the number of bids was recorded.
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.
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Housing: Where social justice confronts economics
“This is a social justice issue when you have people traveling long distances and leaving children to fend for themselves. It is wrong for our region. Affordable housing is the underpinning of our success as a community, long term.”