Colorado wants to take factory-built homes mainstream. Is it an answer to mountain towns’ affordability woes?

Colorado wants to take factory-built homes mainstream. Is it an answer to mountain towns’ affordability woes?

After several years of mountain town-living, Kellie Shaltes faced a sobering question: could she sustain it? She’d taken around a $10,000 pay cut when she relocated from San Diego to teach at Battle Mountain High School in Eagle, even as her housing costs remained roughly the same. Well over a third of her income was going to rent, and she’d moved three times since coming to the Vail Valley in 2018, Shaltes said.  “I was on the verge of leaving …