It’s easy to give an eye roll to pledges by the two leading candidates for governor to spur the building of 3.5 million new homes over seven years.

After all, California has never come close to 500,000 new housing units in a year — much less done it seven times on the trot. It’s open to question whether public or private financing markets could accommodate such a historic, explosive building boom, not to mention if construction workers could be found for it.

So the most charitable characterization…

The young family of three stands, anxious, in the front yard. Sayed Zia, who has sharp eyes and dark hair cut close, juggles his chatty, curly-haired 2-year-old, Naha Sadat. Asma Elham, in a blue-and-white polka dot hijab, carries boxes and bags. While it hasn’t quite hit them yet, the home they’re standing in front of is theirs.

Zia, Elham and their daughter will soon be residents of Habitat for Humanity’s largest housing project in Colorado, Sheridan Square. Sheridan Square is a 63-home, 4.35-acre development southeast of Knox Court and Kenyon Avenue, built on what was once home to Fort Logan Elementary School. The $15.6 million project provides permanent affordable housing for 355 people — 130 adults and 225 children.

Construction began in September 2016 and the first wave of families moved in last fall. Zia, Elham and Naha are part of the second wave of residents moving into the community of energy-efficient, two- to five-bedroom single-family homes, duplexes and triplexes.

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Facebook photoJake MillisonGruesome new details in a murder case set in the tiny southwest Colorado town of Parlin show a man was killed in his sleep and buried by members of his family in a pit with sheep heads — all done to settle a long-brewing feud over who should inherit a $3 million ranch.

Gunnison County District Court records say Deborah Sue Rudibaugh in July confessed that she killed her 29-year-old son and buried his 170-pound body by herself more than two years before. But investigators thought the confession by the 5-foot-tall, 70-pound woman was a ploy to spare her daughter and son-in-law from blame for the murder of Jacob Henry Millison.

Since then, state and local detectives have been piecing together a case. On March 1, Rudibaugh’s 33-year-old daughter, Stephanie Jackson, was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder. Rudibaugh, 68, was arrested the next day on the same charge. Jackson’s husband, David Jackson, 34, on Tuesday was taken into custody.

All three are b..