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A growing effort to preserve mobile home parks as affordable housing was praised by local leaders at a recent public forum co-hosted by the Aspen Jewish Congregation, Snowmass Chapel and Mountain Voices Project (MVP) at the Aspen Chapel as an example of public-private, cross-sector collaboration that could help solve wider housing challenges….

After over a year of organizing with Mountain Voices Project (MVP), residents of Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park in Colorado’s Roaring Fork have raised millions of dollars and negotiated a contract with their landowner to purchase the land under their homes.

Colorado is now the third most expensive state in the country, and working families are struggling to pay rent.

Op-ed by CCG/MVP leaders Marissa Molina and Maria Judith Alvarez in the Washington Post

Housing affordability is one of the defining challenges facing Colorado. Colorado is now the third most expensive state in the country, and working families are struggling to pay rent. More than half of renters statewide spend over 30% of their income on housing, and too many Coloradans can no longer afford to live where they work.

In the Roaring Fork Valley, the residents of Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park are in a multi-million-dollar bidding war with private equity investors trying to buy their homes. At Mountain Voices Project, we are supporting over 100 families as they try to buy their park and keep their community affordable and stable.

A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy (AMOS) is at the center of a major milestone for housing in Des Moines: the first two permanently affordable homes have now been built in Des Moines' South Side.

After Calgary City Council voted to repeal rezoning without a replacement plan, the Calgary Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) organized a press conference with a coalition of 11 organizations representing tens of thousands of community members, urging leaders to advance clear, responsible solutions to the city’s growing housing crisis.

Mesa faith and community leaders with Valley Interfaith Project (VIP) are pressing the City Council to complete the final step needed to open the Sunaire Hotel as transitional housing for families experiencing homelessness. Gathering outside City Hall, clergy and residents called on the council to approve the contract needed to furnish the renovated hotel so Mesa’s Off the Streets program can move into the facility — expanding a program that has already helped thousands of residents regain stability.

“Every delay means there’s folks that don’t have a place to sleep more permanently,” Valley Interfaith Project (VIP)'s Rev. Sarah Oglesby-Dunegan told Arizona’s Family.

After an old hotel was set to become transitional housing for seniors, families, and domestic violence victims, Mesa City Council took the final vote off the council agenda with no explanation why. The move pushes the decision to February, delaying the opening by about two months.

Demonstrating the power of organized people, Calgary Alliance for the Common Good (Calgary Alliance) packed Knox United Methodist Church with 600 people for its 2025 Mayoral Forum.

“Over the last year, we have been consulting with the members of our constituent organizations, and have heard stories about life in Calgary and what would make it better," said Rev. Kersi Bird, co-chair of the Calgary Alliance Affordable Housing Team.

Amidst rate hikes and low-income housing tax credits set to expire this year, Valley Interfaith Project continues to urge State lawmakers to incentivize affordable housing development.

120+ TWM Members Overflow City Commission Meeting & Press Conference: Contribute More or "Show us the Math!"

Together West Michigan members packed the Grand Rapids City Commission Chamber yesterday, calling for equity and transparency in the proposed Three Towers project downtown.  Citizens are being asked to forgo over $565 million in future tax revenue to subsidize developers — receiving just $8.5 million for affordable housing spread over 20 years in return.

“We don’t oppose private development,” said Rev. Lynette Sparks of Westminster Presbyterian Church. “What we DO oppose is this insultingly small contribution to affordable housing. Public dollars demand real public benefit.”

“We keep hearing this project isn't ‘viable’ with a greater contribution,” added Pastor Peter Tewinkle of Oakdale Park Church. “Then show us the math. If it’s true, put it on paper and make it public.”

Despite assurances from the City Clerk’s office, over 40 TWM members were forced to watch the meeting from the lobby on their phones due to lack of space.

The fight isn’t over—TWM will be back when the Commission meets again.