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Capitol Hill mansion is now a permanently affordable housing co-op

A Capitol Hill mansion that once housed generations of aspiring butlers is being converted into the city’s first permanently affordable housing co-operative. 

“The irony's not lost on us,” said Lincoln Miller, the executive director for Boulder Housing Coalition, which purchased the property. “We really appreciate that and that is part of why we're calling this the People's Mansion.”

Since 1990, the mansion housed the Starkey International Institute for Household Management, where people trained to become butlers for the ultra-rich.

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