No. HB 267
Filed under Housing.
Local Housing Assistance Plans; Authorizes county or eligible municipality to expend certain funds on lot rental assistance for mobile home owners for specified time period; requires counties & eligible municipalities to develop certain strategies in their local housing assistance plans; provides that lot rental assistance is approved home ownership activity for certain purposes; authorizes certain funds to be provided to mobile home owners for rehabilitation & emergency repairs; removes prohibition that only certain percentage of funds may be used for manufactured housing.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDCounties and municipalities must now include strategies to help mobile home owners when parks close, replacing a previous recommendation.
Local housing funds can now pay for up to six months of lot rental assistance for mobile home owners.
The bill removes the 20% cap on funds used for manufactured housing, allowing more money to flow to that sector.
Lot rental assistance is now legally classified as an approved home ownership activity for local housing distribution purposes.
AICounties and municipalities must now include a strategy for mobile home park closures in their plans, changing from an optional recommendation to a legal requirement.
AILocalities are required to include a strategy for providing program funds to mobile home owners, specifically including lot rental assistance.
AILot rental assistance for mobile home owners is legally classified as an approved home ownership activity, allowing it to count toward the 65% home ownership funding requirement.
AIThe bill deletes the existing prohibition that limited the use of local housing distribution funds for manufactured housing to 20 percent.
AIFunds may now be provided to mobile home owners for rehabilitation and emergency repairs, which count toward the 75% construction and repair funding requirement.
AICounties and municipalities may now use local housing distribution funds for lot rental assistance for mobile home owners, limited to six months' rent.