When your mobile home community is a corporate investment
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When your mobile home community is a corporate investment
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In 2022, mobile home park residents in Durango, Colorado, fought to keep their community from being purchased by an out-of-state corporate owner. The Westside Mobile Home Park had been Alejandra Chavez's home since she arrived from Mexico at 12 years old. In the fight to help her community, Chavez was caught between an instinct to keep a low profile and the need for her leadership.
In this episode of The Magic City of the Southwest, we tell the story of one immigrant neighborhood's struggle to belong in a city with diminishing housing options for working-class people. Along the way, we go down the rabbit hole of mobile home park investment and explore the psychic landscape of manufactured housing.
Hosted by Kirbie Bennett & Jamie Wanzek
Produced by Magic City Studios (Adam Burke, Kirbie Bennett & Jamie Wanzek)
Original score by Adam Burke
Additional Music:
Chrome and Wax by Ray Catcher
Selena Leica by Sugartree
Wisteria by The Contessa
Tumblehome by Resolute