Thistle revamping unsound home to affordable housing

LAFAYETTE — Thistle Community Housing, a non-profit organization that works to bring affordable housing to Boulder County, has acquired a structurally unsound home at 211 E. Chester St. in Lafayette and plans to build two affordable houses in its place.

Resource 2000 will help to recycle as much of the original home as possible. Bob Spencer, the deconstruction coordinator for Boulder Energy Conservation Center, explains the deconstruction process: “Using only our hands, we delicately remove all the components of the home separately, and then we pick out all the usable material like lumber and sheet metal.”

Through mid-winter, Thistle will be…