06.26.19 HAB MHS PresentationManufactured Housing
Strategy
Housing Advisory Board
June 26, 2019
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Mapleton Home Owners
“At present, three of my adult children
have purchased mobile homes in
Mapleton and a fourth is currently in
the closing process. I have come to
value the unique sense of community
fostered in Mapleton.”
-Isabel Sanchez
Board President
Mapleton Home Assoc.
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Project
Overview
Structured approach to support manufactured
housing as an option
Phase I: Community Engagement
100+ people
300+ ideas
Phase II: Sort Options
Study Session
Phase III: Analyze and Prioritize Actions
Council
Feedback
Support for Principles
Accountability and Enforcement
Equity
Support Analyzing Five Work
Items
Pad Rents, Infrastructure and
Licensing are higher priority
Ordinances if Possible
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Principles
Affordability
Viability
Community
Accountability
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Principles
Accountability
Clear
Practical
Accessible
Resident focus
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Phase III
Overview
Analyze and Prioritize Actions
•Staff analysis five areas
•Draft action plan and potential ordinances
•Public engagement
YOAB, HAB, HRC
City Council August 6
Analysis
Headlines
Continue what’s working, esp. state-level
Keep infrastructure private; support
maintenance and upgrades
Pad rents –state level approach
Monitoring/compliance requires staff resource
Enhance opportunity for resident/non-profit
ownership
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Action Plan
Two -year focus for work planning
Prepare for future issues
15 new work items; all 5 areas
7 departments
Ordinances to implement action
plan
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Engagement:
Approach
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Engagement:
Phase III
Email updates to more
than 100 people
Open House
Public Hearings HAB,
HRC
Web site input, in-
person, meetings
Feedback and Priorities
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Questions
Does HAB have feedback on the MHS
Principles?
Does HAB have input on the proposed Action
Plan?
Which actions should be prioritized?
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Project
Overview
BVCP Policy 7.08 –Key Elements:
1.Preservation of existing MHCs
2.Development of new MHCs
3.Increasing opportunities for resident-owned
communities (ROCs)
4.Health or safety issues
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Principles
Affordability
Most affordable
detached housing
≤ market-rate rents
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Principles
Viability
Homes & Communities
-Safe, well-maintained,
modernized
Financial viability
Reasonable return on
investment
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Principles
Community
Meet the needs of
diverse people,
especially vulnerable
Programs and resources
for MHC residents
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Proposed
Actions
Continue
Mobile Home Park Act improvements
Support Resident Owned MHCs
Support residents
Fund repair program
Infrastructure
Local standards
Problem solve code constraints
Require plans
Payments for service disruption
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Proposed
Actions
Pad Rent Stabilization
Voluntary agreements
State legislation
Legal analysis
Local Enforcement
Manufactured Housing Specialist
Clear compliance path
Communications standards
Notice of evictions
Posting of utility bills
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Proposed
Actions
Energy efficiency
Solar garden pilot
ZEM housing
Land use code
New MHC location analysis
Other
Opportunity to purchase
Onsite human services and recreation
HB 1309 implementation
Lease provisions
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Ordinances
1.Right of first refusal
2.Water/sewer disruption
3.Lease requirements
4.Communications
5.MHC utility bills
6.Eviction notification
7.MHC infrastructure plans
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Background:
Boulder’s
MHCs
Boulder
Meadows
Mapleton Orchard
Grove
Vista
Village
Year built 1970 1961 1963 1968
Pads
Occupancy 100%100%100%98%
Affordable 0 120 0 0
Homes
Owned 514 135 216 302
Rented 119 0 0 0
Pre-1976 26%61%69%29%
2.8% of Boulder’s Housing Stock
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Background:
Pad Rents
Market-rate Rents:$725 -$800
Average Annual Rent Increase: 4.2%
4.2%4.0%
0.8%
2.4%
Market-rate
MHCs
Market-rate 2Br
Apartment
Affordable MHC Inflation
AVERAGE ANNUAL PERCENT RENT INCREASE
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