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9 <br /> <br />• In Chapel Hill, 53.5% of all renter households are cost burdened by <br />30% or more, and 19.8% of owner-occupied households are cost <br />burdened by 30% or more. Additionally, 35.8% of renter <br />households are cost burdened by 50% or more and only 9.4% of <br />owner-occupied households are cost burdened by 50% or more. <br /> <br />• In Carrboro, 47.9% of all renter households are cost burdened by <br />30% or more, and 30.7% of owner-occupied households are cost <br />burdened by 30% or more. Additionally, 23.9% of renter <br />households are cost burdened by 50% or more and only 9.3% of <br />owner-occupied households are cost burdened by 50% or more. <br /> <br />• In Hillsborough, 43.4% of all renter households are cost burdened <br />by 30% or more, and 39.0% of owner-occupied households are <br />cost burdened by 30% or more. Additionally, 34.4% of renter <br />households are cost burdened by 50% or more and only 9.8% of <br />owner-occupied households are cost burdened by 50% or more. <br /> <br /> <br /> Mobile Homes (Manufactured Housing) <br /> <br />• In 2000, Mobile (manufactured) homes made up 10.4% of the <br />housing stock; a source of affordable housing in the county. <br />By 2011, mobile <br />(manufactured) homes had decreased and make up 7.9% of <br />the housing stock. There was also a slight decline in multi-family <br />units of twenty or more units (down from 9.1% to 7.1%). <br /> <br />• Mobile home parks in Orange County are geographically located <br />throughout the entire County but most are clustered along the <br />major state and federal highway corridors. Approximately sixty- <br />five (65) of the mobile home parks (65%) are located within <br />3,000 feet of a major roadway: Route 54; Route 86; Route 70; <br />Route 70A; Route 40; Route 85; and I-85/40. The majority of <br />the remaining thirty-four (34) are located within one (1) mile of <br />these major roadways. Fifty-four (54) of the mobile homes are <br />located in the southern half of the county which includes the <br />portions of the County south of Hillsborough. There are only three <br />(3) mobile home parks located in the northernmost quarter of the <br />county. <br /> <br /> <br />• In January 2016, the condition of each of the 2,017 mobile homes <br />in the 100 mobile home parks of the County was analyzed as to the <br /> 124