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17 • On March 6, 2018, the Rehabilitation Specialists in the Housing and Community 1 Development Department conducted an inspection of three (3) of the units at the 2 Homestead Mobile Home Park. The Rehabilitation Specialists determined that none of 3 the manufactured homes could be moved safely without significant investment. 4 5 • On March 7, 2018, the graduate interns working in the Housing and Community 6 Development Department, along with other UNC-Chapel Hill graduate students, held a 7 “phone-a-thon” to contact the 100 manufactured home park owners in the County to 8 gather information and identify available vacancies. 9 10 **In mid-April 2018, an information session will be held with manufactured home park owners to 11 provide information gathered during the “phone-a-thon”. 12 13 • The Rapid Response Team met on March 13, 2018 to review a draft proposal of 14 services for residents of the Homestead Mobile Home Park. 15 16 • On March 17, 2018, staff will meet again with the residents of Homestead Mobile Home 17 Park to discuss and evaluate potential options for relocation. 18 19 Staff is proposing two options to relocate residents at Homestead: 20 21 Option 1 – Assisting residents with locating alternative affordable housing and providing 22 displacement funds to facilitate the relocation. Working with the Community Home Trust, staff 23 has identified vacancies at the Landings at Winmore as one potential relocation option. These 24 units are dedicated to serving low and very low income individuals and families. 25 26 Option 2 – Contracting with Empowerment Inc. to provide Relocation Coordinator Services. 27 Staff is recommending that the County allocate up to $280,000 to enter into an agreement with 28 Empowerment Inc. to provide mitigation displacement services to the low and very low income 29 individuals and families living at the Homestead Mobile Home Park. Empowerment would 30 purchase manufactured homes to be used by eligible individuals and families and would provide 31 property management services for the units purchased. 32 33 Empowerment would provide services such as: 34 • Determining program participant eligibility; 35 • Using the County’s centralized database of manufactured home park owners to find 36 available manufactured homes and/or spaces for lease; 37 • Ensuring that any manufactured home purchased are sold or leased to families earning 38 no more than eighty percent (80%) of the HUD Area Median Income; 39 • Ensuring the long-term affordability of the manufactured homes (twenty (20) years); 40 • Providing written leases and lease-purchase agreements with residents, as appropriate; 41 and 42 • Providing general maintenance on manufactured homes to ensure continued standard 43 housing conditions. 44 45 The Orange County Housing and Community Development Department, along with the 46 Permitting and Inspections Division in the Planning Department, would conduct all the 47 necessary inspections to ensure that the housing is adequate, safe and sanitary. The County 48 would ensure the long term affordability of the manufactured homes through the legal 49