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With low-income housing in short supply, Idaho lawmakers are looking at legislation to protect mobile home owners from being displaced. An article in yesterday’s Idaho Statesman noted:

Since 2001, an estimated 1,300 mobile home households have been forced out. A 2007 Boise State University study found that in Boise about 5,400 people live in more than 2,700 manufactured homes - the equivalent of a small city. The researchers found that mobile home park residents are economically vulnerable; half are senior citizens living on median household incomes of $20,000 or less, most are women, and nearly half have a chronic medical condition.

The study referred to in the article is the award winning, “Mobile Home Living in Boise: Its Uncertain Future and Alarming Decline” authored by SSPA faculty members Todd Shallat, Roy Rodenhiser, and Susan Mason.

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