State project: Costs squeeze out mobile home residents in Durango

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State project: Costs squeeze out mobile home residents in Durango

Corporations purchasing longtime affordable housing
Dave Bray has lived in the mobile home park on Animas View Drive for more than 30 years. He is now planning to leave because of increases to lot rent and utilities.
Residents in Apache Mobile Home Park have seen lot rent rise in recent years under corporate ownership. But residents still have problems with aging sewer lines that back up into homes and yards on the lower end of the park in the winter.
Tim Walker

State project: Costs squeeze out mobile home residents in Durango

Dave Bray has lived in the mobile home park on Animas View Drive for more than 30 years. He is now planning to leave because of increases to lot rent and utilities.
Residents in Apache Mobile Home Park have seen lot rent rise in recent years under corporate ownership. But residents still have problems with aging sewer lines that back up into homes and yards on the lower end of the park in the winter.
Tim Walker
This article is from the Parked series. View full coverage here.
About the series

This project is an ambitious, first-of-its-kind collaboration between The Durango Herald, The Colorado Sun and a dozen Colorado news organizations.
Journalists across the state focused on the evolving landscape for mobile homes – our largest source of unsubsidized, affordable housing.
Read it at The-Journal.com/Parked.

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