It took two years, but in the Westwood neighborhood of Denver, an 80-family community of mobile homes is on track to become the first resident-owned manufactured housing park in Denver. While resident-owned communities are on the rise across the country, Colorado is also home to some of the biggest, most predatory corporate park landlords in the country, such as Yes! Communities, Ascentia, and RV Horizons-Impact Communities, the last of which was featured in a segment by John Oliver for their inhumane practices.
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Residents at Capital City, now known as Montevista Comunidad, were determined to prevent their own park from closing after two shut down in their neighborhood in 2015. They decided they wanted to take advantage of the state’s Opportunity to Purchase law, passed in 2020, to purchase the park themselves through a resident-owned community—a cooperative ownership structure in which mobile home households collectively take ownership of the land and manage the community on their own behalf.
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