Housing, Economic and Demographic Reports & Statistics
Mobile Home Decommissioning & Replacement and Mobile Home Park Acquisition Strategies for Montana - A Preliminary Analysis and Report
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DISTRICT XI HUMAN RESOURCE COUNCIL - Serving Mineral, Missoula, and Ravalli Counties; and DISTRICT VII HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL - Serving Big Horn, Carbon, Stillwater, Sweet Grass, and Yellowstone Counties
PREPARED BY:
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Rand Kennedy & Julie Flynn, Authors
The purpose of this report is to recommend a conceptual strategy or strategies to decommission and replace occupied mobile homes that were built prior to the implementation of the 1974 HUD Construction Standards for such housing. The recommended strategies are based on a summary review of best practices in other states and a preliminary analysis of the market and need for replacing the substandard, and energy inefficient housing stock in Montana.
Mobile homes or manufactured housing generally represent the lowest cost and most affordable housing in the state. However, mobile homes, and especially those constructed before the National Manufactured Housing and Safety Standards took effect in 1976, also often represent the most substandard, unsafe, and energy consumptive housing in Montana. The challenge is to develop strategies that permanently remove the dilapidated mobile homes from the Montana housing stock while providing the opportunity (and financing) for affordable replacement housing to the residents, most of whom have lower incomes.
The strategies described in the report are at the conceptual stage of development and are meant to be flexible and modified with further input from potential participants and stakeholders. Additional information and research will be necessary to confirm the technical, financial, and political feasibility of implementing the strategies.
