Cindy Onnen has lived in Forest View Mobile Home Court for half a century. She moved there with her husband and 2-year-old son in 1971, when the rent was $25. “It went up to $35 the next month, and I was mad. Gosh, to say that now, people would say, ‘Really? You’re that old?’” Onnen […]
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Forest View residents reach agreement with land owners and developers
Last Monday, City Council members heard concerns from Forest View residents regarding future land developments where their homes currently sit. With these concerns — of community displacement, financial burdens, and the immoveable state of a majority of the trailer homes — came a list of demands. Residents requested an end to intimidation tactics exercised by […]
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Forest View residents reach out to City Council for support
The sounds of shuffling feet, murmurs in Spanish and English, and bent paper signs unfolding filled the atmosphere of Monday’s City Council meeting. Residents of Forest View and community supporters, including former and current Rose Oaks tenants, gathered in the back of Harvat Hall after strategizing their message outside. The first to speak to the council […]
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The price of progress
“Do not expect justice where might is right.” — Plato Summer in this town sounds like jackhammers pulsing and backhoes scraping the asphalt. Towering cranes loom over my head on my walk to work, and I feel anxious. I’m not an Iowan. I grew up 1,000 miles away, on the western side of the Catskills […]
