University of Colorado Law School students in the Sustainable Community Development Clinic have played a vital role in helping the residents of a mobile home park in Fort Collins, CO.
The students worked with supporters in the community to form a new non-profit, United Neighbors, that purchased the Parklane Mobile Home Park when it went up for sale. This preserved the affordable housing in the community and set the residents on the path to home ownership. Residents of the park announced that it will be renamed “Nueva Vida Mobile Home Park.”
This is one of six mobile home parks to be saved by Colorado’s Mobile Home Park Act. The act gives residents of a mobile home park the opportunity to purchase the park before anyone else if a mobile homeowner wants to sell.
Students in the clinic have been providing advice on the “opportunity to purchase” statute since 2020, with the guidance of Deborah Cantrell, a professor at Colorado Law.
“We are thrilled for the residents of Nueva Vida Mobile Home Park,” Cantrell said in a press release. “Affordable housing has never been harder to come by in our region. It is extraordinary that students at Colorado Law are able to help facilitate such significant change while in law school, and in doing so, experience the game-changing power of the practice of law.”
