> Community-owned mobile home park plan moves forward as city council approves loan funding
Community-owned mobile home park plan moves forward as city council approves loan funding
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For the past two decades, the Capital City - MonteVista Mobile Home Park in Westwood has been home for Jorge Alberto Loya and his family. He loves everything about the place.
"Everything, everything, everything," he said. "I'm very comfortable here. I'm happy with my family here."
When the park was put up for sale two years ago, Alberto Loya and his neighbors, like Eduardo Castaneda, worried they'd be forced to leave their homes.
"Definitely displaced," said Castaneda, who has lived at the mobile home park for 17 years. "We hope to work together and make it so our community would own this land."
Thanks to some help from Justice for the People Legal Center, residents took action to become the new owners themselves.
Read more: https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/community-owned-mobile-home-park-plan-denver-city-council-loan-funding/73-e1f1c90e-62ef-42cc-a212-c563ed54faa1
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