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Still waiting to rebuild at Weston’s Mobile Home Park in Berlin

Posted September 26, 2011

BERLIN — Paul Premo, 70, escaped the flood with only the shirt on his back.

His neighbor Bob and Patty Goodell grabbed their cat and drove to higher ground where they slept in their car for the night.

Premo said in the days after Tropical Storm Irene swamped Weston’s Mobile Home Park, there was talk of sewage in the floodwaters. He saw pools of kerosene throughout the park.

Saturday, displaced resident Sandra Gaffney led a news conference at the park to address the residents’ recovery issues. Seventy homesin the park were destroyed.

Gaffney is just one of a growing number of mobile home park residents who have formed a group called Mobile Home Park Residents for Equality & Fairness, designed to give voice to mobile home owners. Gaffney and others spoke about the lack of assistance to their specific needs …

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Irene’s major casualty: Vermont’s mobile home parks

Posted September 15, 2011

“Piece by soiled and muddy piece, the cozy, comfortable lives of dozens of Vermonters were being disassembled Wednesday at the Weston Mobile Home Park in Berlin.

Chairs and tables. Couches and refrigerators, big-screen televisions and small end tables, throw rugs and oriental rugs, cleaning products, clocks, pots and pans, dining room chairs and kitchen utensils, radios and bicycles — all the things that make a home a home headed into the Dumpster, along with large piles of crumbled sheetrock, batts of pink fiberglass insulation, wooden framing studs and damaged siding and particleboard.

For some of the poorest and most vulnerable Vermonters, this is the scene some two weeks after Tropical Storm Irene swamped the state…”

Source: Vermont Digger September 14th, 2011

Full Story: Irene’s major casualty: Vermont’s mobile home parks

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Rountable Discussion on Vermont Mobile Home Parks

Posted August 10, 2011

There will be a Roundtable Discussion on Vermont Mobile Home Parks featuring Paul Bradley of ROC USA (See http://www.rocusa.org/) and Andy Danforth of the Cooperative Development Institute. It will take place on Friday, September 23 from 9AM – noon. There is a $10 fee to help cover lunch and there will be time to network after lunch. [More ...]

 


2010 Mobile Home Park Registry and Report Available

Posted March 22, 2011

The 2010 Mobile Home Park Registry and Report are available.  Some nonprofit parks had lot rent increases while some others had decreased rent. This means that the median lot rent for nonprofit and cooperative parks for 2010 was unchanged from 2009, at $265.  The lot rent for investor owned (for profit) parks increased from $305 to $310.

You can find the 2010 Registry and Mobile Home Parks Report and other information on this page on the VT Department of Housing and Communities Affairs website: http://www.dhca.state.vt.us/Housing/mh_facts.htm

For more information contact: Arthur Hamlin, VT Department of Economic, Housing and Community Development, 802.828.3211.

 


More HUD funding for housing counseling coming to Vermont

Posted January 5, 2011

HUD has awarded $252,800 to seven additional Vermont nonprofits to help low and moderate income Vermonters become first time homeowners, to prevent foreclosures and help mobile home owners preserve their homes.  The following each received a share of the federal funds to support their important homeownership and foreclosure counseling work:

  • Central Vermont Community Land Trust
  • CVOEO Mobile Home Project
  • Champlain Housing Trust
  • Lamoille Housing Partnership
  • NeighborWorks of Western Vermont
  • Rockingham Area Community Land Trust
  • Windham Housing Trust 

The funding is part of a $1,440,300 HUD grant to Boston-based Citizens Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA).  The Central Vermont Community Action Council and Bennington-Rutland Opportunity Council also received $76,883 in direct funding from HUD for homeownership, foreclosure prevention and tenant counseling. 

“HUD-approved housing counseling agencies are a critical part of the nation’s housing recovery,” said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan.  “This critical funding will help counseling organizations continue to assist families in making more informed choices before they purchase a home and counsel families facing foreclosure.” 

CHAPA received full funding for its application on behalf of the New England Housing Network.  The Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition is the state’s lead agency for the Network and helps provide technical assistance to the Vermont grantees.  The Obama Administration awarded nearly $73 million in housing counseling grants to more than 500 national, regional and local organizations, a 22% increase over last year’s funding level. 

You can read HUD’s press release here: http://tinyurl.com/24roqt7.

 


2010 Mobile Home Lot Increases

Posted October 4, 2010

Source: Vermont Department of Housing & Community Affairs, October 4, 2010

Vermont Department of Housing and Community Affairs (DHCA) records and reports on Vermont mobile home park lot fees. They have found that lot rents increased from 2009:

  • The average 2010 lot rent increase amount was $12.00 / 5.23 percent and the median was $9.00 / 3.28 percent.
  • 2,402 lots (about 1/3) were increased.
  • For 2010, they received 100 lot rent increases and 72 were above .4%
  • The median percent of increases was 3.28% and the average was 5.23%
  • They had two requests for mediation
  • The threshold for mediation for 2011 is 0.6%, only slightly higher than this year’s  0.4%.

The 2011 rent increase forms were mailed out Friday October 1st. They have also been uploaded to their website.

For more information visit their website, DHCA Mobile Home Parks

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Vermont Mobile Home Parks Can Now Register Online with Housing Department

Posted August 20, 2010

Source: The Wall Street Journal: Market Watch, August 20, 2010

“MONTPELIER, Vt., Aug 20, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The State of Vermont is continuing its efforts to use technology to reduce the cost of government by introducing an online registry for mobile home parks. [More ...]

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Owners to Sell Triple L Mobile Home Park

Posted August 12, 2010

Source: Burlington Free Press, August 12

By Dorothy Pellett

“HINESBURG — Residents of the Triple L Moblie Home Park are looking at their options after the owners announced they are selling the 65-unit park.

The park, established in 1966, is located at the intersection of North Road and the Hinesburg-Richmond Road. The sale was announced last month; the asking price on the notice of intent to sell is $1,500,000. [More ...]

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Man wants to replace mobile homes with houses

Posted July 27, 2010

Source: Bennington Banner, July 27

By Keith Whitcomb, Jr.

“POWNAL — Mark Grise said he would like to turn things around at Royal Pine Villa, but standing in his way is a lack of funding.

Grise is president and general manager for Royal Pine Villa Inc. The mobile home park is owned by Grise’s father-in-law, Marcine Roy, and was managed by him up until 2008 when his health forced him to take it easy. [More ...]

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Mobile Home Project Wins Service Learning Award

Posted April 21, 2010

By Jon C. Reidel

Source:University of Vermont Communications, April 21, 2010

“The service learning and community-based research partnership between the Department of Community Development and Applied Economics and the Mobile Home Project at the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity received the Vermont Campus Compact Exemplary Campus-Community Partnership Award on April 14 at the Compact’s Statewide Recognition Reception Ceremony. [More ...]

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