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Colorado Sun-led package of statewide stories on mobiles homes

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...

Parked: Residents of Greeley-area mobile home park feel abandoned A community where homeowners also...

GREELEY— Steve Spencer has lived in the Hill-N-Park subdivision in unincorporated Weld County on and off since he was 16. At 42, Spencer is thinking about...

Parked: Fire can be risky, deadly drawback of living in mobile homes The most...

GREELEY — For many with low or fixed incomes, mobile homes provide an affordable housing option that’s hard to beat as housing costs continue...

Parked: Fort Collins considers reforms to preserve 30 mobile home parks and improve conditions...

Fort Collins leaders are taking advantage of a reshuffled city council lineup to dust off proposed mobile home park reforms that have long failed...

Parked: “Priced out of our hometown,” rising lot rents squeezing out mobile-home park residents...

Durango resident Dave Bray has lived in the mobile-home park on Animas View Drive for more than 30 years, but in the next year...

Parked: Aurora considers how to preserve mobile-home parks after park’s closure State law on...

More than a year ago, Aurora was blazing trails in how to handle the battle between mobile home park owners and helpless renters. Now, Aurora...

Parked: One of the wealthiest counties in Colorado owns four mobile-home parks, an effort...

While the existence of five mobile-home parks in Colorado’s wealthiest county might come as a surprise to some, they are actually an integral part...

Parked: Colorado towns are taking action to preserve their remaining mobile-home parks Cities, counties...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Jeff Morehead’s cat slips through the small, square door carved into his wooden fence, a gateway from Morehead’s mobile home lot...

Parked: New state law brings hope to Colorado’s mobile home residents A key part...

In a late-August Sunday afternoon, state Rep. Meg Froelich readied the meeting room at the Sheridan Library for a town hall with constituents. There...