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A housing crunch in the West has some looking to public lands as a solution…and a place to live.
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A "David and Goliath story" ends with residents of the Westside mobile home park in Durango, Colorado, keeping their homes, with a lot of help from their neighbors.
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The affordable housing crisis is usually understood as a problem in the Mountain West’s cities and resort towns. But it’s also happening in rural areas with booming economies.
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Homelessness is a growing problem in Western cities. Some communities are setting up their own encampments.
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Building new affordable housing takes time, but knocking it down can happen practically overnight.
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Housing costs are rising fast in our region as economic development attracts new residents and supply chain problems cause building delays. But a federal program that helps low-income renters is falling short.
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“What we’re starting to see is that affordable housing can no longer be ignored,” says Megan Lawson of Headwaters Economics.
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Population growth in the Mountain West has surged during the pandemic, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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The idea of selling public lands is sacrilegious in much of the West. In Southern Nevada, the affordable housing crisis may be an extenuating circumstance.
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