{"id":713,"date":"2010-03-15T16:54:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T22:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=713"},"modified":"2010-04-04T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T19:09:33","slug":"boulder-gives-birth-to-senate-bill-on-mobile-home-dwellers-rights-across-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"Boulder Gives Birth to Senate Bill on Mobile Home Dwellers’ Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mobile Home parks \u2013 have you thought about who lives in them?\u00a0 Have you considered what contribution they make to low income housing in Boulder and beyond?\u00a0\u00a0 Have stereotypes blocked much thought about them?\u00a0 The answer for the City of Boulder is yes \u2013 we have thought about them and we are willing to bust through stereotypes and take action. Boulder has spearheaded an effort to update the antiquated and feudal situation in mobile home parks in Colorado and to balance more equitably the rights of mobile home owners and owners of mobile home parks.\u00a0\u00a0 Why is this important?\u00a0 Well, because mobile homes are not mobile despite their name. Most never move more than once from factory to site and the ownership and equity then become critical with a privately owned home on top of separately owned land.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the insight and encouragement of Boulder\u2019s City Council, Colorado Senate Bill SB 10-156, to enhance the rights of mobile home owners and dwellers, is before the Senate Judiciary committee.\u00a0 The hard work and determination of residents of Orchard Grove Mobile Home Park in Boulder to survive as a mobile home park and to make the city aware of the value of mobile homes as a form of affordable housing for low income residents brought to light the need to update the legislation of mobile home parks in Colorado.\u00a0 The City of Boulder helped move this forward by linking Orchard Grove residents with State Senator Rollie Heath & State Rep. Dickie Lee Hullinghorst who have now introduced SB 10-156\u00a0 in the Colorado legislature.<\/p>\n

This will be a step forward for Colorado, but before we get too self congratulatory it is important to remember that many states are way ahead of us.\u00a0 It is critical to pass SB 10-156 and there is much further to go if we want to meet the standards set forward by other states.\u00a0\u00a0 Richard C. Williams, Socio-economist\/Faculty of Regis University and resident of Orchard Grove notes that, \u201cOver thirty states have stronger provisions to protect the ownership rights of mobile home residents than does Colorado\u2019s old and outdated law.\u201d His nationwide research shows stronger provisions in many states including the following:<\/p>\n