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5 thinks that no one in the government is actually charged with helping to identify parcels like this. He would like to see the Manager look into this. He would rather be strategic and organized. Also, he was thinking that there was $1 million set aside in the legislature for removing abandoned mobile homes statewide. He asked if there is a process by which the County can access these monies. Regarding the study, he hopes that no one tries to convince the County Commissioners that manufactured housing is important in the total structure of affordable housing. He said that the Manufactured Housing Association insists that manufactured housing does not depreciate at the rate that tax assessors depreciate it. He hopes that someone will give the County a definitive answer. He wants to know if there are ways that value can be preserved or if it just depreciates. Chair Jacobs made reference to the third bullet at the top of, "Proposal for Manufactured Housing Units Assessment," and he read, "develop strategies to address loss and preservation of manufactured housing." The word "address" was missing. Geof Gledhill said that the irony of the value issue is that the property owner benefits from the depreciation schedule. The tax value rarely sets the market. Commissioner Nelson said that he would like to create a discussion in the community about the value of manufactured housing. He said that there is a lot of classism going on and people look down on that kind of housing. He said that there may be a role for the Human Rights and Relations Commission to play in terms of a dialogue. V. Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program Update Tara Fikes said that the last time she provided a status report was in June, so it is not too different from that report. The County is currently funding about 615 vouchers annually. Her message today relates to the waiting list and the current status of that. As of today, there are about 2,200 people on the waiting list. This has happened over a period of four years, because the waiting list was reopened in 2004 when the list was 350-400. The list is being purged through contacting everyone on the list to see if they were interested in remaining. This exercise should be done by the end of the month, and she thinks that 1,200 people will still remain on the waiting list. The average wait time is three years or longer. She thinks that the County is again faced with the question of continuing to accept applications or not. Another interesting phenomenon is that most of the surrounding county programs have closed their waiting lists and there has been an influx of applicants from other counties. Of the contiguous counties, only Chatham County is still accepting applications. In the Triangle area, only the City of Raleigh still accepts applications. The AHAB is in the discussion phase of possibly limiting the number of new applicants and will come back to the Board with more definitive information. Commissioner Gordon asked how it is decided who gets the voucher. Tara Fikes said that it is the next person on the list. There are preferences for homeless people, people paying more than 50% of income for rent, and people who have been displaced due to some natural disaster. There is also a preference for people living in Orange County. She said that, although it is a federal program and people can take vouchers and live anywhere in the country, Orange County has a provision that the voucher holder has to live in Orange County at least a year before moving other places. Chair Jacobs said to make sure that Congressman Price was still being reminded that this is an issue every year. VI. Eno Haven Follow-up Questions