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A bill before the General Assembly would put safeguards in place to promote accountability and affordability in mobile home parks. More than 100,000 Coloradans live in mobile home communities, but investment funds and developers have been buying up parks and hiking up the rent, sometimes by double. Cesiah Guadarrama Trejo, associate state director for Colorado 9to5, said rent increases are the number one concern for residents. . ....
A new report found older Michiganders and people with disabilities face some of the greatest barriers to housing, and systemic racism has led to higher rates of disability among people of color. Renter households at or below 30% of the median income in Michigan are 77% more likely to include older adults or adults with disabilities. Julie Cassidy, senior policy analyst at the Michigan League for Public Policy and the report s author, said the pandemic worsened a shortage of affordable housing which had already reached a crisis point in many communities, and people with disabilities and older Americans often are disproportionately impacted. . ....
An approach to affordable housing that assigns each town a certain number of units to plan and zone for, based on the needs of its region, would help cut down on housing segregation in Connecticut, advocates said Thursday. ....