Project Description
In 2018, the City of Aurora, Colorado created a Mobile Home Task Force to study the lack of affordable housing in Aurora and to make recommendations of possible solutions to the displacement of mobile home park residents due to closures, rezoning, and redevelopment. Root Policy Research was contracted to provide market metrics on mobile homes and to draft the report of recommendations on behalf of the Task Force. The report identified top needs related to affordability and displacement. It also provided policy and program solutions to address key concerns and to help improve protections for mobile home parks and residents.
Year: 2018
Unique Aspect of the Study
Our study elevated the perspectives of residents living in mobile homes communities in Aurora: “We are a safe community, we protect one another, we don’t even have to worry about locking our doors because we all look out for each other and for each other’s children. There is no crime here, we feel safe, a lot of us have family living in other homes in the same neighborhood. We know that if we had to leave, we would not have this protection anymore.”
