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Reality, for a few residents in Arcata’s six mobile home parks, is roofs that fail to keep the water out, floors that fail to keep the feet dry, and plumbing that fails to make water go anywhere. Some mobile homes lack infrastructure that would make them accessible to people with mobility issues, or to the elderly.
A new state-funded grant could go a long way towards repairing some of those homes.
The Manufactured Housing Opportunity & Revitalization (MORE) program, funded by the California Department of Housing and Community Development, will grant money to mobile home owners whose homes need repairs. This is the program’s first year,...
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First of all, it’s extremely disingenuous for this article to start with a photo of a home destroyed in Hurricane Katrina and then put this caption in small print:
Your mobile home probably doesn’t look like this, but it might feel that way sometimes.
As for the California program mentioned, I won’t hold my breath until we see actual work done on the homes. California is notorious for promising things and never delivering on them. If they cough up the money and actually fix old homes for free, that’s great. But more than likely they’ll just study them, have committee meetings, and let the press die down before abandoning the concept.
STUPIDITY INDEX RATING: 5