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<br /> <br /> <br />retaliation and thus refused to speak with County staff. Two (2) additional families have <br />some work affiliation with the manufactured home park owner and also will not speak with <br />County staff. <br /> <br /> On March 6, 2018, the Rehabilitation Specialists in the Housing and Community <br />Development Department conducted an inspection of three (3) of the units at the <br />Homestead Mobile Home Park. The Rehabilitation Specialists determined that none of <br />the manufactured homes could be moved safely without significant investment <br /> <br /> On March 7, 2018, the graduate interns working in the Housing and Community <br />Development Department, along with other UNC-Chapel Hill graduate students, held a <br />“phone-a-thon” to contact the 100 manufactured home park owners in the County to <br />gather information and identify available vacancies. <br /> <br />**In mid-April 2018, an information session will be held with manufactured home park <br />owners to provide information gathered during the “phone-a-thon”. <br /> <br /> The Rapid Response Team met on March 13, 2018 to review a draft proposal of services <br />for residents of the Homestead Mobile Home Park. <br /> <br /> On March 17, 2018, staff will meet again with the residents of Homestead Mobile Home <br />Park to discuss and evaluate potential options for relocation. <br /> <br />Staff is proposing two options to relocate residents at Homestead: <br /> <br />1. Option 1. Assisting residents with locating alternative affordable housing and <br />providing displacement funds to facilitate the relocation. Working with the Community <br />Home Trust, staff has identified vacancies at the Landings at Winmore as one <br />potential relocation option. These units are dedicated to serving low and very low <br />income individuals and families. <br /> <br />2. Option 2. Contracting with Empowerment Inc. to provide Relocation Coordinator <br />Services. Staff is recommending that the County allocate up to $280,000 to enter into <br />an agreement with Empowerment Inc. to provide mitigation displacement services to <br />the low and very low income individuals and families living at the Homestead Mobile <br />Home Park. Empowerment would purchase manufactured homes to be used by <br />eligible individuals and families and would provide property management services for <br />the units purchased. Empowerment would provide services such as: <br /> <br />• Determining program participant eligibility; <br />• Using the County’s centralized database of manufactured home park owners to <br />find available manufactured homes and/or spaces for lease; <br />• Ensuring that any manufactured home purchased are sold or leased to families <br />earning no more than eighty percent (80%) of the HUD Area Median Income; <br />• Ensuring the long-term affordability of the manufactured homes (twenty (20) <br />years); <br />• Providing written leases and lease-purchase agreements with residents, as <br />appropriate; and <br />2