Low-cost housing suffers

How unfortunate that low-cost housing for the elderly is to be sacrificed once again. There is insufficient low-income housing in the valley now, and each time such housing (like Parkhill Mobile Home Estates) is replaced by more expensive options, more people on fixed incomes suffer. While I believe in free enterprise, the human element must be considered. Relocation fees are not the only concerns.

When retirees purchase an affordable modular home, it is not because they intend to move it around. It's because it is the only affordable option for them. They settle in a park that becomes their permanent home.

But due to the nature of the "mobile" home, depreciation makes it undesirable to other parks, so when the property is sold to developers the homeowners are displaced.

I think there must be a way to provide for their actual housing replacement needs, not just a token $1,500 allowance for moving a unit when there may not be anyplace for it to go.

Debra Miller

Farmington