June 2024 Update

The Town of Chapel Hill’s Affordable Housing and Community Connections Department intends to submit a funding application for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Fiscal Years 2023 and 2024 Preservation and Reinvestment Initiative for Community Enhancement (PRICE) Competition. The purpose of the HUD funding is to make $235 million available to preserve long-term housing affordability for residents of Manufactured Housing Communities (MHCs), to redevelop MHCs, and to primarily benefit low- and moderate-income (LMI) residents.

The Chapel Hill Town Council held a public hearing on Monday, June 17, 2024 at 6:00pm to receive input on the Town’s PRICE application. Additional information on the meeting can be found here.

The public was also invited to review and comment on the draft application for a period of no less than fifteen (15) days beginning June 21, 2024.

The application deadline is July 10, 2024.

Overview

The Manufactured Homes Action Plan is designed to provide a plan to address the redevelopment threats facing manufactured home communities in Orange County. The Plan is a collaborative effort between the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, and Orange County that outlines specific objectives, strategies, action steps, partners and resource needs to address the redevelopment threat facing manufactured home communities. If we are successful in implementing this action plan, we will:

  1. Preserve manufactured home communities.

  2. Minimize resident displacement due to redevelopment.

  3. Create a Relocation Assistance Package to provide meaningful relocation assistance options for residents seeking displacement.

Resident engagement has been the foundation for strategies that have been developed by partners to address the needs of the MHCs and continues to be with this Action Plan. Resident engagement has included in person meetings, focus groups, and surveys to understand the housing needs and preferences of manufactured home residents in the county.

The Town initiated efforts in the winter of 2017 to develop a Manufactured Home Strategy to address the redevelopment threat of the manufactured home communities in Chapel Hill. The foundation for this strategy involved proactively engaging residents and owners of the Town’s four manufactured home communities to develop potential solutions that are responsive to residents’ needs and interests.  After extensive engagement, the Town created Manufactured Home Strategy.

Reports and Updates

  • Resident Engagement Report
    The Town conducted extensive outreach to all of the manufactured home communities in Chapel Hill. This report outlines the findings from that engagement. -

  • Affordable Housing Site Analysis Report
    This report summarizes the Town’s analysis of Town-owned properties that could be used for affordable housing development and serve as potential relocation of manufactured home and other low-income households facing displacement.

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