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Pitkin County to back resident purchases of two Valley mobile-home parks with $3 million letter of intent
Summary
Pitkin County commissioners approved a resolution authorizing a $3 million letter of intent to support Thistle’s effort to help residents buy the Aspen Basalt and Mountain Valley mobile home parks and convert them to resident-owned communities.
Pitkin County commissioners on Wednesday approved a resolution authorizing the chair to sign a letter of intent committing $3 million in county funds to help residents purchase two mobile-home parks in the Roaring Fork Valley.
The board’s commitment, presented by Ashley Pearl, Pitkin County’s resiliency and housing director, is intended to be part of a larger valleywide funding stack to support Thistle — a national nonprofit that helps mobile-home residents organize and finance purchases — in an effort to turn the Aspen Basalt Mobile Home Park (in unincorporated Eagle County) and the Mountain Valley Mobile Home Park (in unincorporated Garfield County, just outside Carbondale) into resident-owned communities.
Why it matters: The county’s pledge is aimed at preserving existing workforce housing instead of losing units and then trying to replace them. Pearl told the board the county’s $3 million would…
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