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East Denver small business owners want say in development plan to...

A group of East Denver residents and business owners is calling upon the city to ensure that community members can shape development plans for...

A debate over ‘accessory dwelling units’ in Colorado Springs highlights affordable...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Del Huff has lived here in Colorado’s second-largest city for nearly a quarter of a century. He and his wife own...

Guest Post: Denver’s minimum wage vote is roadmap for other cities...

Denver’s recent historic vote to raise its minimum wage to more than $15 an hour marks a long-overdue victory for local communities over big...

Denver community group wants better protections against displacement Within a development...

A group set on ensuring that the wave of gentrification that has swept through many parts of Denver doesn’t engulf their communities, too, urged...

Parked: Routt County manufactured homes by the numbers In just the...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Routt County’s manufactured home supply has been almost reduced by half in just the last decade. Routt County Assessor Gary Peterson noted...

Parked: Ouray woman watches a mobile-home investment evaporate with her mother’s...

For many Coloradans, the purchase of a single- or double-wide trailer represents their variation on the American dream of home ownership and a slice...

Parked: Delta mobile-home resident poisoned by carbon monoxide; rental company denies...

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 — 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...

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...

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