An Overview of Manufactured Homes

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An Overview of Manufactured Homes
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Misnomer, Stigma and Stereotype

• Mobile Home
• Pit bull myth
• A step toward housing
• Burden on the community

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Facts

• Mobile?
• Only 1 in 100 move from original site
• Costs 7,000 - 15,000 to move (up to 20,000?)
• Stereotype
• Media driven, small percentage of total
• Step?
• 60 over 10 years - this is a HOME
• Burden?
• Good for community (mixed income number of
  children)

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Affordable Housing

• 40,000 manufactured homes in Utah
• Median m.h. household income 60 of overall
  median income
• Median m.h. household income of new m.h. buyers
  less than 75 of conventional

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Income of Manufactured Home Households(Age 50
and Older)
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Why should we bother pondering this issue?

• Federal subsidy programs - usually not for
  manufactured homes
• Are there more m.h. than subsidized housing in
  Utah?
• AFFORDABLE UNSUBSIDIZED HOUSING

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Other Facts

• Industry provides 1 of each 7.5 new houses
• Owners are often elderly, disabled, and on fixed
  income
• Only 34 on leased land (higher in Utah)
• Why do people buy them? Bargain (though they come
  with insecurity). Median prices
• manufactured home - 44,000
• single-family home - 160,000
• (Not truly comparable manufactured home price
  does not include land).

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Percentage of Manufactured Homes by County
50 m.h. parks along the Wasatch Front
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Park Closings

• Cottonwood Heights - Meadows March 31
• Midvale - White Manor
• Vernal
• Hurricane

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Cottonwood Heights

• Push to help with relocation effort
• In the end, 30M will have changed hands in the
  deal
• Developer (John Guest) put up 500,000

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Midvale

• Developer to build 33 town homes on the 3.25
  acres
• Rent increases from 300 to 500, 1,000 as of
  May 1
• 5 holdouts

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What Do We Propose

• Follow the lead of the AARP/National Consumer Law
  Centers Model Manufactured Homeowner Bill of
  Rights
• Advocate during Interim Study
• Expand upon Wheatlys Bill (notice and first
  refusal) and Riesens Bill (relocation)

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Recap

• An alternative to subsidized housing
• Park closing create a problem for the community,
  not just the tenants
• We have work to do