Stop The Evictions, Sell Denver Meadows To The Residents!

Shawn Lustigman (Owner Denver Meadows Mobile Home Park) and Aurora City Government

83 families and more than 400 latinx, immigrant and low-income residents, including 200(?) children of the Denver Meadows Home Park in Denver Colorado are facing imminent eviction by the park’s owner Shaun Lustigman. Lustigman is has told the residents they must leave by June 2018 so he can rezone the property, sell if for millions of dollars of profit and pave the way for the gentrification of Aurora’s (neighborhood). If the owner closes the park all of the families will be displaced without compensation and many will have to abandon their homes and everything they have invested in it.

But we can ensure a better ending! With your support we can stop this displacement AND support the residents of Denver Meadows to purchase the land and collectively control the land on a Community Land Trust!


The residents of Denver Meadows have been organizing collectively since 2016 to stop the rezoning of their community and the gentrification of Aurora through community education, direct action and securing financing from Resident Owned Communities (ROC) USA to make a ‘market-rate’ offer to Lustigman to purchase the property as a collective and ensure that all of their families can stay.

Over the last 2 years Lustigman has retaliated with eviction notices, rent increases and targeting resident leaders. Last week, after significant community pressure, Lustigman again turned down an offer of $20.5 million for the property and is moving ahead to close the mobile home park and carry out mass evictions of hundreds of latinx residents from Aurora!

We demand that:

    • Shawn Lustigman stop the closure of Denver Meadows Park and eviction of more than 380 residents and children and accept the residents offer to purchase the Mobile Home Park!
    • The Aurora City Council and Mayor pass an immediate moratorium on mobile home park closures for 3-years and pass an ordinance to ensure the right of first refusal for mobile home park residents.

The city of Aurora already has a 12,000 deficit in affordable housing units, and many families would end up homeless if the park were to close. Mobile Homes are one of the only permanent and long-term affordable options for families - yet when park closures happen they not only leave families homeless, but often strip families of generations of wealth and savings. In reality ‘mobile’ homes aren’t mobile - it costs between $6,000 - $20,000 to move to a new park, and with very little other housing available, demolition of the park would mean permanent displacement for most of the Denver Meadows families.
For many families this would mean changing jobs, transitioning to new schools, longer commutes, the destruction of community fabric, more barriers to healthcare, affordable childcare, and food access.


To: Shawn Lustigman (Owner Denver Meadows Mobile Home Park) and Aurora City Government
From: [Your Name]

The residents of Denver Meadows have been organizing collectively since 2016 to stop the rezoning of their community and the gentrification of Aurora through community education, community action and securing financing from Resident Owned Communities (ROC) USA to make a ‘market-rate’ offer to park owner Sharn Lustigman to purchase the property as a collective and ensure that all of their families can stay.

Over the last 2 years Lustigman has retaliated with eviction notices, rent increases and targeting resident leaders. Last week, after significant community pressure, Lustigman again turned down an offer of $20.5 million for the property and is moving ahead to close the mobile home park and carry out mass evictions of hundreds of residents from Aurora!

We the undersigned demand that:

Shawn Lustigman stop the closure of Denver Meadows Park and eviction of more than 380 residents and children and accept the residents offer to purchase the Mobile Home Park!

We the undersigned demand that:

The Aurora City Council and Mayor pass an immediate moratorium on mobile home park closures for 3-years and pass an ordinance to ensure the right of first refusal for mobile home park residents.

The city of Aurora already has a 12,000 deficit in affordable housing units, and many families would end up homeless if the park were to close. Mobile Homes are one of the only permanent and long-term affordable options for families - yet when park closures happen they not only leave families homeless, but often strip families of generations of wealth and savings.

In reality ‘mobile’ homes aren’t mobile - it costs between $6,000 - $20,000 to move to a new park, and with very little other housing available, demolition of the park would mean permanent displacement for most of the Denver Meadows families .For many families this would mean changing jobs, transitioning to new schools, longer commutes, the destruction of community fabric, more barriers to healthcare, affordable childcare, and food access.