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The MHA is incorporated as a non-profit corporation in the State of Colorado and has obtained a 501(c)3 tax exempt status with the Federal Government for the purpose of promoting low and moderate income housing in Boulder, Colorado. We have partnered with Thistle Community Housing, a local area non profit also dedicated to preserving affordable housing, and intend to secure financing to purchase, improve and operate the land on which we already live and thereby provide permanent affordable housing for low and moderate income Boulder residents. We believe our association is qualified to undertake the risks, obligations and responsibilities of a land purchase. In addition, we intend to set up Mapleton Park as a far seeing model, for all towns and cities, which utilizes existing mobile homes to create a low and moderate income housing development.
Members within the the MHA have a strong commitment to the process of resident ownership of Mapleton Park. Within its first year of existence, seventy-five percent of the residents joined the MHA and have actively contributed to the development and refinement of this ambitious organization. Moreover, the MHA continues its membership drive and its goal of educating mobile home owners throughout the park. The challenge of working together as a community is being met with tremendous energy and enthusiasm by MapletonŐs talented residents.
Mapleton Home Association is a grass-roots organization representing residents of Mapleton Mobile Home Park in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in late 1995, our mission is to preserve the Park as permanently affordable, resident controlled, owner-occupied mobile homes. MHA has partnered with Thistle Community Housing, both 501(c)3 non-profit corporations, to purchase the Park from the current owner, City of Boulder, and add it to ThistleŐs Community Land Trust (CLT). In a CLT, land is held in trust by a community-based non-profit organization and, generally, each home owner leases the land beneath their home; in our case, MHA intends to lease the land from Thistle under a 99-year, renewable lease, and to manage the operations of the Park and the rental of homesites to individual resident home owners. A minimum of 80% of the homes will be designated permanently affordable. City of Boulder intends to sell the Park once a flood mitigation project is built through the middle of our community, projected for completion in mid-2003 to mid-2004.
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