Utility bills burn through paychecks for thousands of Coloradans – 5.15.21
MARCH 15, 2021 For the past five years, Susana Martinez Oliva has dreaded the onset of winter in Colorado.
She lives in a mobile home with her husband and six children in the Dotsero Mobile Home Park, alongside Interstate 70 near the eastern edge of Glenwood Canyon, a cold, windy corridor over 6,000 feet high in the mountains. Soon after the family moved into the mobile home, which they bought from a friend of Martinez’s husband, the furnace broke and they didn’t have the money to replace it. Instead, they rely on space heaters, placed strategically throughout the home.
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