Margaret Jones, president of the board of directors at Mountainside Community Co-op in Camden, Maine, authors a guest commentary piece urging her elected leader to support the PRICE program.
She writes: PRICE is a $500 million grant program for resident-owned communities and nonprofit manufactured housing communities. It would provide funds to support critical infrastructure improvements and resident purchases. The House Appropriations Committee voted to include PRICE in the 2023 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development funding bill.
As negotiations finalize , I urge legislators on both sides of the aisle to recognize the dire need for low-barrier and low-cost grants and loans for manufactured housing communities. Manufactured housing is one of the last remaining sources of unsubsidized affordable housing and is
an increasingly popular option for low- and middle-income homeowners including young families and seniors. A vote for PRICE is a vote for this important solution to the nation’s housing crisis.