Sara Fleming Receives PACES Funding to Establish Collaborative Community Ownership Website for Mobile Home Park Preservation
Sara Fleming is a second-year MA student in the Geography department working with Professor Jennifer Fluri. She is broadly interested in the intersection of housing crises, climate injustice, and financial capitalism. Her thesis research focuses on community-owned mobile home parks in Colorado, where residents have organized to form cooperatives, collectively purchase land, and govern it for the benefit of the community.
She received the PACES Tier 2 grant funding to help fund a community-led project in partnership with mobile home park residents that she met through her thesis fieldwork. The project aims to create a website that shares information, provides resources, and connects people who are interested in preserving mobile home parks in Colorado and transferring them to community ownership.