“What we did last year — bringing the local governments, the private businesses and the philanthropic community together — was described as ‘miraculous,’ but I don’t want us to believe that we can’t do it again. We just did something for the first time that now we need to better understand and improve.”
Tag: Affordable housing
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California firm buys up seven Western Slope mobile home parks
A 39-unit manufactured home community in Rifle that a California real estate investment firm purchased in December is part of a portfolio of seven Western Slope parks consisting of more than 700 homesites and recently acquired by the company.
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Developers are selling the Harvest project as a boon for workforce housing. Others see a burden.
One project skeptic said he doesn’t doubt the developer is genuine about wanting to help address the valley’s housing needs. “I think he believes he can make money and solve a social problem, I’m not going to bet the farm on that.”
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New affordable senior housing opens as region confronts aging demographics, rising costs
“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.”
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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 […]