Jeannine Stewart, another resident in the senior community, said nine months is helpful, but "even longer would be better."

Mobile homes built before 1976 cannot be moved to a new park, which means some residents could have nowhere to go if forced to leave. Many mobile-home residents are on a fixed income, living on disability or Social Security payments, and they can't afford to move, said Joanne Benfatti, a board member of the Utah Mobile Homeowners Action Group.

Benfatti said the action group, which spoke out in favor of Taylorsville's efforts, is glad for the extended notice granted by HB48, but they plan to lobby for more protection for mobile-home residents next year. Benfatti was evicted from her mobile home in Cottonwood Heights before moving to a different mobile home park in Salt Lake City.

"This is a major problem," Benfatti said. "There are 75,000 people in mobile homes and they keep throwing them out, left and right. ... For me, it was either go buy a mobile home, or go to a homeless shelter. Those were my two choices, and I think a lot of people are in the same situation."

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