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Advocates urge statutory changes, SRF tweaks to help manufactured‑home communities fund aging water and sewer systems
Summary
Two housing advocates told the House General and Commerce committee on April 10 that Vermont's manufactured‑home communities face urgent infrastructure needs and that State Revolving Fund and state statutory rules favor municipal borrowers over small parks.
Two housing advocates told the House General and Commerce committee on April 10 that Vermont's manufactured‑home communities (MHCs) face urgent infrastructure needs for drinking water, wastewater and stormwater systems, and that state rules and the State Revolving Fund (SRF) process are structured for municipalities rather than small, low‑income parks.
Liz Curry, a consultant with Common Land Solutions, and Jeremiah Ward of the Cooperative Development Institute said the sector serves low‑ and moderate‑income households but lacks scale to absorb major capital costs. "The average median household income of MHCs that my program, WISP, has surveyed is 37,000," Curry said. Ward added, "Vermont has 238 MHCs that provide housing to nearly 7,700 households with low and moderate incomes."
Why it matters: presenters said MHCs are a critical affordable‑housing resource in Vermont but carry aging, often failing infrastructure installed in the 1950s–1970s. Curry and Ward said small community size (the average park…
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