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Humberto Murillo, far right, stands with his grandmother and several other relatives and neighbors in front of his family’s home in the Mountain Valley Mobile Home Park in Carbondale on June 28. The recent gathering was part of a fundraising event residents organized to help them buy their park, which was listed for sale this spring for $15.5 million.
Eleanor Bennett
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Aspen Journalism & Aspen Public Radio
As a growing number of investors buy up mobile home parks, residents can face displacement due to redevelopment and rising rents. In response, state and local governments have passed legislation and policies in recent years aimed at protecting residents from being evicted or priced out, and some advocates want lawmakers and other stakeholders to do more to preserve one of the largest sources of affordable housing in Colorado.
  • On today’s newscast: The owners of Aspen-Basalt and Mountain Valley mobile home parks did not accept their residents’ first offer to buy the parks, but it’s not the end of the road; a CU Boulder study found that marijuana sold in Colorado is often less potent than it claims; and in the past two decades, Mountain West states have seen the steepest declines in the birth rates. Tune in for these stories and more.
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