Renewable Revolution

 
Mar 9 2022 By Fred Thys

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The bill also allows the housing agency to offer grants to middle-income home buyers who cannot afford to buy a home. Those buyers would have to pass along the grants when they sell the home. The agency also would be able to use some funds for grants to first-generation home buyers to cover down payments and closing costs.

If it passes, the bill would authorize $3 million to improve manufactured-home communities, $1 million to repair manufactured homes and make them compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and another $1 million in grants to build foundations and install utility connections for manufactured homes, all for fiscal year 2023.

Mobile homes “are an inexpensive element of our housing stock that is suffering in many cases from lack of attention,” said Sen. Michael Sirotkin, D-Chittenden, chair of the committee. “And we don’t want to lose those homes.”

While Sen. Michael Sirotkin said 7,000 people live in mobile homes in Vermont, that is actually the number of lots in mobile home parks. State figures show 44,000 Vermonters lived in mobile homes in 2017, about one-third of them in mobile home parks.

Full article:   
https://vtdigger.org/2022/03/09/senate-advances-a-bill-providing-incentives-for-more-housing/