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Work group considers easing zoning barriers to manufactured‑home ownership
Summary
Members discussed a study request to explore whether Virginia should encourage fee‑simple manufactured‑home subdivisions or otherwise remove local barriers so homeowners can convert manufactured homes from chattel to real property. Advocates said expanded fee‑simple options would increase affordable homeownership; industry representatives urged new
The Local Land Use and Community Living Work Group discussed a staff and member request to study whether state law should affirmatively encourage manufactured‑home subdivisions or otherwise limit local barriers that prevent owners from treating manufactured homes as real property.
"In Virginia, we don't have a system that holistically tracks and identifies where all of our mobile home communities are," Delegate Elizabeth Guzmán Maldonado told the group, summarizing the policy request she asked the housing commission to study. She said a…
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