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Moab buys a mobile home park to safeguard it for low-income residents

Moab’s Walnut Lane neighborhood, where about 85 residents live in trailers fabricated before 1976.
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Moab’s Walnut Lane neighborhood, where about 85 residents live in trailers fabricated before 1976.

When a trailer park housing low-income residents went up for sale in downtown Moab, Utah, local elected officials worried it would get bulldozed for a new hotel. So the city bought it.

KZMU Radio reports on Moab’s ongoing plans to develop affordable apartments on the site and safeguard workforce housing in the town.

An illustrated drawing of a concept for the future Walnut Lane Apartments. If built, it would be Moab’s first-ever municipal-developed workforce apartments.
An illustrated drawing of a concept for the future Walnut Lane Apartments. If built, it would be Moab’s first-ever municipal-developed workforce apartments.

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This story is part of a collaboration between the Solutions Journalism Network and Rocky Mountain Community Radio highlighting affordable housing solutions across the Mountain West.

See all of the stories in the series.

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