Western Colorado residents push to buy mobile home parks as housing costs climb
At an Aug. 3 forum in Aspen, speakers backed resident-owned mobile home parks as a way to keep western Colorado workers housed.
Key facts
- Residents bought the Aspen-Basalt and Mountain Valley parks with $42 million raised by regional groups, local governments and others.
- Those two parks have 139 units and roughly 500 residents, and local government funding came with deed restrictions.
- Atlantic Aviation gave $1.1 million, according to senior general manager Jonathan Jones.
- In August, the Cavern Springs cooperative of 98 households had a $23 million purchase deal and was $1.8 million short, with closing set for October.
- A housing-needs assessment projected that the region needs nearly 7,200 more housing units over the next decade.
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Source: Local leaders say collaborative model to save mobile home parks could inform other housing initiatives — Aspen Journalism, August 13, 2026. Summary and commentary by RISE Community; read the full story at the source.
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