Affordable housing shouldn’t have to take a miracle
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Residents of the Westside Mobile Home Park in Durango, in southern Colorado, called it a miracle: They now own the…
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Just outside Durango, Colorado there’s a trailer park called Westside that I’ve been driving by all my life. Yet residents…
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I recently spent two days with a Mexican national named Alfredo because his experience and many of his surprising opinions…
MoreWilling workers are right at the border
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