Description: Mobile and manufactured homes offer a very affordable option for single-family ownership and rental housing. Yet mobile-home parks have largely been casualties of the region’s skyrocketing housing costs. Preserving manufactured home communities at risk of redevelopment is an effective strategy for sustaining an important component of the affordable housing stock, as well as preventing displacement of existing residents.
Speakers: Hayley Bonsteel, AICP, Long-range Planning Manager, City of Kent; Dawn Couch, Senior Project Manager, BERK Consulting; Brigid Henderson, Manager, Manufactured/Mobile Home Relocation Assistance Program, WA State Department of Commerce; Brooke Brooling, Manager, Manufactured/Mobile Home Relocation Coordination Program, WA State Department of Commerce; Kyle Jung, Commerce Specialist, Community Support Programs, WA State Department of Commerce; Victoria O’Banion, Marketing and Acquisitions Specialist, ROC Northwest/NW Cooperative Development Center