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AT BOULDERMOD, HIGH SCHOOLERS ARE BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOMES FOR BOULDER RESIDENTS

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Source: Boulder Weekly

A city-built factory run by Flatirons Habitat for Humanity is training students in construction while helping longtime Ponderosa residents buy new homes By Lewis Jolly Boulder Weekly Robby Erickson has lived in Boulder’s Ponderosa Mobile Home Park since 2011. This July, he traded his trailer for a new two-story house that he owns. According to Erickson, his mortgage is even a dollar less than the rent he used to pay. A modular home built through the BoulderMOD project sits at Ponderosa Community Park in Boulder. Photo credit: City of Boulder The house came from BoulderMOD, a 31,375-square-foot modular home factory located at 6500 Arapahoe Rd. The factory sits next to the Boulder Valley School District’s Apex Construction Trades classrooms, the district’s career and technical education center.

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