HB1007

I become a homeowner of a mobile home in 2016 as part of my plan to downsize and be debt free when I was to retire in 2020. I knew my retirement income would not be able to support a stress less lifestyle if I was to maintain ownership/mortgage on my 2 bedroom home that I bought in 2000. My mobile home is bigger and more affordable as well as situated in a very nice community of like minded individuals. I can afford, with my partner, to maintain my home to high standards and live comfortably in this environment.

I'm a resident and property owner and strongly opposed this bill.

My wife (Vickie) and I moved in two years ago to Heron Point Estates Cooperative. I had always lived in a brick and mortar home so I wasn't sure what to expect from mobile home living. We attended a few meetings and the co-op made us feel right at home. I love the camaraderie of our new neighbors and the wildlife that visits our back yard. The size of our lots and the facilities are great. With the New Hampshire housing crisis I feel that now more than ever co-op's is the way to affordable housing and if this bill passes it will limit the amount of New Co-Op's in New Hampshire. I do not support HB1007.

Honorable Chair and Members of the Committee, My name is Amanda Sanchez, and I am a resident of a resident-owned manufactured housing community in Plainfield, New Hampshire. I have lived in New Hampshire for most of my life and come from a family with deep roots in the state. I work in healthcare. I strongly oppose HB 1007. New Hampshire faces a significant housing shortage, with an estimated need for 50,000–60,000 additional housing units by 2030. Manufactured housing is among the most affordable and attainable forms of homeownership, and policies that restrict it directly undermine the state’s ability to meet this growing demand. This bill would make it harder for working families and younger generations to achieve homeownership by limiting reasonable opportunities to own manufactured homes. At a time when housing affordability is already out of reach for many, removing or restricting this option moves us backward. If anything, New Hampshire should advance policies that expand access to manufactured housing across all cities and towns, not limit it. This legislation ultimately favors higher-income interests while reinforcing outdated and harmful stereotypes about manufactured housing. These homes provide safe, stable, and affordable housing for thousands of New Hampshire residents and are an essential part of the state’s housing ecosystem. I respectfully urge the committee to oppose HB 1007. Thank you for your time and consideration. Amanda Sanchez

• 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.

I opposed this bill because it’s taking the right of people who try to get into homeless for the first time and out of apartments or those who lost their homes to go back into a home environment. It’s not fair that the only available Homes are over $500,000 are not available to somebody like me a retired person or somebody like my daughter and her husband who can’t afford to even buy a home we’ll have to continuously live in an apartment. This is not about your right to profit, but our right to find a home and happiness in the state of New Hampshire and this is not what you are doing. This is totally against everything that a resident of New Hampshire is! Mobile homes from anything before 1980s are not the same as what is being built today and anybody who looks at some of these modular homes now as double wide or singles wide it’s totally different different than what was done then. They have different different codes. They have different different standards. This is not not fair to take away anyone’s right to be able to purchase or to be able to add in a town. It’s not fair when a town says that mobile homes can only be on a certain size lot and make it look like a slum just to be able to get rid of them. That’s not fair to anyone not the people who live beside them whatever, but if they were given the opportunity to have large larger, lots bigger place to expand a yard and have some of these modular homes come in it’s a whole different story today and a lot of different places. I will invite you to come take a look at someplace nice and that’s Freedom Hill Co-op in Loudon, New Hampshire? There are many co-ops in this state that are in a lot better shape than what some of the old places are, but they are nevertheless homes for somebody. It’s the landlords of the other properties or the combination of the co-op itself. That makes it better.

My name is Frank Boudreau and I would like to register my opposition to HB 1007. My wife and I have lived in Goffstown over 35 years during which we owned a couple of 'traditional construction' homes and raised 2 daughters, who graduated from Goffstown High School. After retiring in 2019, we sold our large home on 2 acres and 'down-sized', buying a 1700sf manufactured home located in the Medvil Cooperative in Goffstown, a 55+ community of 300 manufactured housing units with 450 residents occupying 154 acres in a country environment. Like many retirees, we wanted a place that was affordable on a fixed income, had adequate space for 2 people, and relatively low maintenance. Moving into our new home satisfied all of these needs. The Medvil Cooperative (see www.medvilcooperative.com) is a 20 year-old non-profit, resident-owned community (ROC) managed by a 9-member volunteer Board of Directors with a goal of providing its members a safe and affordable living environment. It is one of 153 Resident-Owned Cooperatives (ROCs) in New Hampshire established and supported through the NH Community Loan Fund. The success of our Medvil Cooperative was recognized recently when it had the honor of hosting the Governor and Executive Council breakfast meeting on September 17, 2025. I am proud to be a resident of this community and an active member of its current Board of Directors. How can passage of this bill help promote more housing opportunities at a time when housing demand far out-strips supply and pushes the price of available stock to unattainable levels for most New Hampshire citizens? In my opinion, the passage of HB 1007 and HB 1016 would severely limit and/or end altogether local efforts to build manufactured housing communities like Medvil, let alone enable individual first-time home buyers, fixed-income retirees, or low/moderate income workers acquire and install modern manufactured housing units on a viable lot or property. I do not see a compelling or urgent reason to change the existing language in the Statute that requires towns and cities to provide for reasonable and realistic opportunities when addressing the siting of manufactured housing. As the saying goes" If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Thank you for your consideration.

As a retiree who has lived in NH for the past 54 years, I have seen the cost of housing skyrocket. My husband and I live in a resident owned community which enables us to afford to remain in the extremely expensive seacoast region. After downsizing for retirement, we sought a single-story home that is easy to maintain, affordable to heat, offers privacy and a predictable cost. We love living in our manufactured home. We even have a private yard where we can play with our dogs. In the “Live Free or Die” state I am appalled that someone is trying to dictate what type of home we can choose. Our state should be investigating more available options to address the drastic housing shortage, not restricting taxpayers’ right to choose from among very few affordable ways to live in New Hampshire.

I am writing today to urge you to oppose HB1007, 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. It's cozy, comfortable, and safe. It holds some of my family's most treasured memories. It's the place my adult children want to be when young adult life gets overwhelming. It's in a pleasant neighborhood with lovely neighbors who look out for each other. Often, people don’t know the quality of a manufactured home, and think of it as “less than” site-built homes. Having lived in every manner of home, my personal experience challenges 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. I can assure you that my home is safely and soundly built, cozy and welcoming. There are plenty of on-site built homes in horrible disrepair that can't say the same. Not everyone needs, wants, or is able to live in what would be considered a more "traditional" home. Manufactured homes are perfect for people who need single-story living, for those who want to live a more sustainable lifestyle, for hard-working families who would rather be saving money for their kids' college funds or for their own retirement than paying a huge mortgage. For these reasons, I urge you to OPPOSE HB 1007.

I live in a Manufactured Home in a co-0p park with my family for 33 years this is my home just like any other home that people can afford please take this advice when you thinking on this situation I have lived in NH all my life we need to make sure people can afford to live

I urge you to oppose HB 1007 - I am a Manufactured home owner since 1989, I believe this is one of the best decisions I've made concerning my home in my lifetime.

TO: Honorable Chair and members of the Committee, From: Anita Wise, NH Resident for the first 45 years of my life - moved back for the past 10 years. I would never of been able to move back to NH without the lower cost of a Manufactured Home. Growing up I looked at manufactured housing as a last resort. Now being a manufactured home owner I have changed my mind, I am very happy and comfortable with my home. I had thought of it as nothing but a tin can but I can assure you it is a safer and much better home than some stick built homes I have been in. Please do not restrict responsible homeowners from the ability to stay or return to NH. Manufactured homes are safe and pleasing to the eye. Thank you, Anita

I oppose this bill, everyone in New Hampshire should have fare and affordable housing options.

I live in a Manufactured Home and you need people like me who cannot afford to pay for a house Manufactured Homes are more affordable please let us beginning to be able to put these homes on land or in the Cooperative Parks

Manufactured housing is so important for the people of New Hampshire. In a world where prices are so high many families can't even afford food, we absolutely should not be limiting access to affordable housing. I purchased my Manufactured home, located in a Resident Owned Community, in May of 2024. I can say firsthand, if it wasn't for the affordability of Manufactured housing, there is no chance I would be a homeowner, especially not at the age of 24. New Hampshire residents cannot afford to have this option stripped away from them. Instead, we should be doing everything possible to protect and encourage these affordable housing options.

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. • Often, people don’t know the quality of a manufactured home, and think of it as “less than” site-built homes. I can tell you if you were to go into my home you would not know it was not built on-site. • 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 good quality as other homes. • I love my home and living in the park community. It was affordable at a time I was working at a low wage yet I was still able to buy it and can now call it my own. • Being a Homeowner is something I’m proud of and think it unfair to take away from others the opportunity to be able to do the same. • For these reasons, I urge you to OPPOSE HB 1007.

HB1007 would make it more difficult to build manufactured housing, limiting the type of homes that can be built and Granite Staters’ access to more affordable types of homes.

New Hampshire needs more access to housing now. We need to expand the tax base as well as enable the next two generations the opportunity to put down roots and care about New Hampshire.

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