Deed restrictions are guiding legal documents more powerful than Aspen/Pitkin County Housing Authority (APCHA) regulations, according to Executive Director Matthew Gillen. Certain deed restrictions, many of which were written in the ’70s or ’80s, do.
Hundreds of local, deed-restricted housing units that were established long ago exist within the APCHA portfolio. Due to archaic policies from the earliest days of subsidized housing, each is a complex puzzle, and many stand.