Breaking Ground: A Community Rises Together

This intimate documentary follows Maribel, a full-time working mother of three, as she moves from a deteriorating mobile home to foundation-built modular homeownership in Boulder's Ponderosa neighborhood—one of the city's most culturally rich and economically diverse communities. Her journey embodies the hope, fear, and determination of working families fighting to stay in the places they've helped build.

The city built a modular home factory in partnership with the school district and Flatiron Habitat for Humanity to build homes for below-average-income families. High school students are helping to build these homes through their school program, learning real skills while constructing their community's future. Maribel is slated to buy the first modular home built in the factory - she represents hope for countless working families priced out of the places they've helped thrive.

When Maribel gets her keys, she reopens a dream for working-class families across America. This film shows affordable housing isn't charity - it's infrastructure for dignity, and a choice about what kind of communities we want to be.

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