U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper, D-Colo.
, visited El Jebel Thursday afternoon to discuss housing affordability in mobile home parks; cost of living and immigration reform with Latino Roaring Fork Valley Residents. Alleviating affordability challenges for locals in tourist economies must be tackled at all levels of government, but Republicans are making it harder, according to Colorado Democratic U.S.
Senator John Hickenlooper. “It's gonna get worse ..
. unless we find affordable housing. The local leadership knows that and usually that's a local leadership, local money thing,” Hickenlooper said in an appearance in El Jebel on Thursday.
“But I think the state and the federal government are both willing to step up now.” Hickenlooper discussed housing affordability and ownership in mobile home parks; and cost of living and immigration reform with Roaring Fork Valley residents in El Jebel Wednesday afternoon. Voces Unidas de las Montañas, a Latino advocacy and policy nonprofit founded in Glenwood Springs, facilitated the roundtable event with about eight community Latino community members living from Aspen to Parachute.
Silvia Barragán, a resident of Apple Tree Park in Garfield County, expressed frustration with the lack of clean water and rising lot prices after the mobile home park was sold to an outside company. “We've had undrinkable water. .
.. Even utilizing a filter does not help when it comes out yellowish or brownish, even in laundry,” Barragán said to Hic.
