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Work group examines allowing manufactured homes in residential zoning and fee‑simple ownership options
Summary
Delegates and advocates discussed whether Virginia should remove local barriers to manufactured homes, permit them in residential districts and create incentives for manufactured‑home subdivisions. Supporters said fee‑simple ownership would improve affordability and wealth building; industry representatives urged choice and noted existing locality‑
Delegate Ibraheem Maldonado introduced a request to study whether state law and local zoning could better enable manufactured‑home subdivisions and pathways for manufactured homes to be treated as real property, rather than chattel, in some contexts. Maldonado said manufactured homes are a low‑cost pathway to homeownership but that many residents are excluded from mortgage and other benefits because their homes are treated as personal property.
Why it matters: Advocates said converting manufactured homes to fee‑simple ownership or removing local prohibitions would expand…
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