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

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...

Parked: A bastion of affordable housing in Colorado is under growing...

In the Aurora mobile home park where she lived for 16 years, eviction notices kept coming to Petra Bennett’s door — for unauthorized guests,...

Residents of soon-to-close Aurora mobile home park plead with City Council...

More than 50 residents facing eviction from a north Aurora mobile home park pleaded with City Council members for help this week, in another...

Democrats seek paid family leave by requiring workers to buy insurance

This story was updated on May 1 after a Senate committee killed the bill.  In 2009, Kris Garcia took a week of unpaid leave from...

Colorado renters to landlord law firm: educate don’t evict

Just after lunch on Sept. 21, a group of about a dozen people, most of them women and most of them renters, gather outside...

Advocates rally at state Capitol for paid family and sick leave

Dozens of business owners, health care professionals and community members gathered in the Capitol in downtown Denver today to push for medical and family leave...