Agenda - 12-04-2017 - 8-a - Minutes

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14 1 available mobile homes and/or mobile home spaces elsewhere and increasing housing costs in 2 the Towns. 3 4 After identifying the main issues that may be unfolding in the immediate future, the Work Group 5 set out to identify goals, explore options, and consider strategies that would assist in developing 6 effective recommendations to address the mobile home park issue in Orange County. 7 Additional information regarding the Mobile Home Park Work Group is included in Attachment 8 1. 9 10 Mobile Home Park Survey Report 11 Throughout the process, the Mobile Home Park Work Group stressed the need to learn more 12 about the mobile home park residents. In order to develop an effective strategy to deal with the 13 potential conversion of mobile home parks, the Work Group recognized it was imperative to 14 learn about the needs and obstacles current mobile home park residents are facing. In addition, 15 the group identified the importance to collect information regarding residents' social and 16 economic needs in order to create successful recommendations in the future. In order to gather 17 input and data on existing residents, the Orange County Family Success Alliance initiated a 18 survey campaign in August which included the completion of 100 surveys from eight (8) mobile 19 home parks in Orange County. The Mobile Home Park Survey Report is included in Attachment 20 2. Information collected from this survey was utilized to develop the proposed mobile home park 21 recommendations. 22 23 Best Practices See Attachment 3 —Summary of Tools Used In Other Jurisdictions 24 25 Sherrill Hampton, Director for Housing, Human Rights and Community Development, 26 made the following PowerPoint presentation: 27 28 Mobile Home Park Survey Report and Recommendations 29 November 20, 2017 30 Item 6-b 31 32 Purpose 33 • Overview 34 • Mobile Home Park Survey Report 35 • Summary of Tools Used in Other Jurisdictions 36 • Mobile Home Park Recommendations 37 38 Overview 39 • The rise of mobile home park closures and subsequent eviction of residents has become a 40 growing concern for the affordable housing arena across the United States in recent years. 41 • Mobile home parks are the largest segment of non-subsidized affordable housing in the 42 country. 43 • Approximately seven percent (7.4%) of Orange County's total housing units (56,297) are 44 mobile homes. [Data comes from the US Census Bureau and the American Community 45 Survey 5-year Estimates (2011-2015)] 46 • Like Orange County, many jurisdictions, including those in Colorado, Texas, Florida, 47 Louisiana, California and even New York, as well as Cleveland and Seattle have seen a rise 48 in mobile home park closures that leave low income individuals and families struggling to 49 find affordable housing in an already strained market where supply of such housing is 50 limited.