Final Recommendations of the Manufactured Housing Task Force
On September 19, 2022, the Fairfax County Manufactured Housing Task Force delivered its recommendations to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for the preservation of the county’s approximately 1,750 manufactured homes as well as tools and strategies to address the unique needs and challenges facing the community owners and families who live there.
Background / Historical Reference
- June 27, 2022 Meeting: Video
- June 6, 2022 Meeting: Video
- May 9, 2022 Meeting: Video
- Agenda: English / Spanish
- MHTF Recommendations Working Document - Section B Comments: English / Spanish
- Mobile Home Park Stakeholder Cooperation and Compliance Presentation: English and Spanish
- April 11, 2022 Meeting: Video
- March 14, 2022 Meeting: Video
- Meeting Agenda: English / Spanish
- Manufactured Housing Task Force Recommendation: English / Spanish
- Manufactured Housing Task Force Workplan and Agenda: English / Spanish
- Harmony Place Community Survey /
Encuesta de la comunidad de Harmony Place - Harmony Place Community Survey Report /
Encuesta de la comunidad de Harmony Place: Resumen de Resultados - Harmony Place Community Survey: Community Engagement Supplement (Revised) / Encuesta de la comunidad de Harmony Place: Suplemento de Participación Comunitaria (Revised)
- Harmony Place Community Survey Alternate &/y Encuesta Alternativa de la comunidad de Harmony Place
- Jan. 10, 2022 Meeting: Video
- Agenda: English and Spanish
- Public Comments and Questions Received / Preguntas y Comentarios Recibidos
- External Schedule Overview / Descripción General de la Programación Externa
- Preservation Task Force Recommendations MH1-MH3
- Harmony Place Community Survey /
Encuesta de la comunidad de Harmony Place - Harmony Place Community Survey Report /
Encuesta de la comunidad de Harmony Place: Resumen de Resultados - Harmony Place Community Survey: Community Engagement Supplement (Revised) / Encuesta de la comunidad de Harmony Place: Suplemento de Participación Comunitaria (Revised)
- Harmony Place Community Survey Alternate &/y Encuesta Alternativa de la comunidad de Harmony Place
- Nov. 15, 2021 Meeting: Video / Transcript (English and Spanish)
- Oct. 12, 2021 Meeting: Video / Transcript / Transcript en Español
- Meeting Agenda / Agenda en Español
- Manufactured Housing Task Force Presentation
- Affordable Housing Preservation Task Force Recommendations Summary / Sumario de Recomendaciones para Viviendas Prefabricadas
- Manufactured Housing Task Force Draft Charter / Guia Preliminaria - Grupo de Trabajo de Viviendas Prefabricadas
- Manufactured Housing Task Force Membership List
- Lista de Miembros - Grupo de Trabajo de Vivienda Manufacturada
- Sept. 27, 2021 Meeting
- Read the Manufactured Housing Task Force Charter
- Lea el Acuerdo del Grupo de Trabajo de Viviendas Prefabricadas
The Spring-Summer 2022 workplan addresses the five strategic community impact areas:
Background
The Manufactured Housing (or Mobile Home) Task Force was created at the recommendation of the Fairfax County Affordable Housing Preservation Task Force, recognizing that mobile homes represent an important source of affordable housing that exists in several districts throughout the county.
- Affordable Housing Preservation Task Force Recommendations Summary
- Sumario de Recomendaciones para Viviendas Prefabricadas
In ensuring the preservation of affordable housing, manufactured housing communities require special considerations given their unique challenges and opportunities.
Task Force Members
- Manufactured Housing Task Force Membership List
- Lista de Miembros Grupo de Trabajo de Vivienda Manufacturada
Fairfax County Background Resources
- One Fairfax Policy
- Countywide Strategic Plan
- Communitywide Housing Strategic Plan
- Fairfax County Affordable Housing Dashboard
- Dashboard Definitions
- Health in All Places
- Affordable Housing Preservation Task Force Recommendations
- South County Task Force Panel on Mobile Home Parks as Affordable Housing
- Video: Panel Discussion of County and Nonprofits' Effort to Purchase Harmony Place Mobile Home Park
Non-Fairfax County Mobile Home and Manufactured Housing Community Resources
- Virginia Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act
- Virginia Legal Aid Society's "Mobile Home Ownership and Lot Rentals"
- Sessions from the Manufactured Home Community Coalition of Virginia's 2020 Symposium: Some Assembly Required: A Virtual Conference on Virginia’s Manufactured Home Communities
- Manufactured Home Communities Coalition of Virginia
- City of Boulder, Colorado - Manufactured Home Strategy
- City of Boulder, Colorado - Manufactured Mobile Home Resources
- Boulder Weekly article: "The Great Experiment - Can Resident-owned Mobile Home Parks Save Manufactured Housing Communities?"
- APA PAS Memo on Preserving Mobile Home Communities
- Portland (Oregon), City of. 2018. Manufactured Dwelling Parks: Comprehensive Plan Policy Amendments, Comprehensive Plan Map Amendments, Zoning Code Amendments, Zoning Map Amendments . Ordinance 189137, August 22.
- Preserving Mobile Home Communities
- Health Impact Assessment Helps Families Replace Unsafe Manufactured Housing
- How a Health Impact Assessment Improved Homes and Health in Oregon
- Moving Beyond the Mobile Myth: Preserving Manufactured Housing Communities
- Prosperity Now - Manufactured Housing Toolkit and Right at Home webinars
- Resident Owned Communities (ROC)
- Policies that raise up manufactured housing as affordable housing.
- Snohomish County, WA: Select pages from Ordinance 07-029 that establish a mobile home park zone.
- Snohomish County, WA: Select pages from the 2008 Moratorium Ordinance 08-070 .
- Eugene, OR: Ordinance 20387 concerning manufactured home community closures.
- West Valley City, UT: Manufactured Housing Ordinance in the West Valley Municipal Code.
- Sample Consolidated Plan, New York: Includes the language concerning manufactured housing used in the New York State Consolidated Plan for federal fiscal years 2011-2015.
Fairfax County Manufactured Homes, by District
Fairfax County Manufactured Home Communities
- October 20, 2020 – Mobile Home/Manufactured Housing Subcommittee
- November 10, 2020 – Mobile Home/Manufactured Housing Subcommittee
- December 1, 2021 – Mobile Home/Manufactured Housing Subcommittee
