Victoria Staunches

• I am writing today to urge you to oppose HB 1007, a bill relative to manufactured housing. • This bill will limit affordable housing options for all Granite Staters by weakening the law that ensures manufactured homes have a “reasonable and realistic” opportunity to be placed across the state. • As you all know, the median cost of a home in New Hampshire has reached all-time highs, making homeownership impossible for many Granite Staters • There seems to be no end in sight, especially while the supply of housing struggles to meet demand. • According to recent data, NH will need 60,000 new homes by 2030. • 40,000 of those units will need to be available for homeownership opportunities. • So why, at a time when we need to be doing everything we can to support opportunities to increase the supply of housing are we going backwards and limiting new housing from being created? • As a manufactured-home owner myself, I’m not sure. • I know that my home is much like any other home • I aquired my home when I desperately needed it and was priced out of renting after a divorce. o Often, people don’t know the quality of a manufactured home, and think of it as “less than” site-built homes o Your experience can help to challenge that belief • Yet, my home is not treated the same as other homes because it was not constructed on-site. • This treatment is not based on fact, but on the idea that my home is not as quality as other homes. • For these reasons, I urge you to OPPOSE HB 1007.