A Kent mobile home park will receive about $1.53 million from the King County Housing Finance Program to renovate the park and preserve affordable housing for low-income homeowners.
Bonel Mabile Manor, 24415 64th Ave. S., has 107 units. Sixty units are affordable to households with incomes at or below 50 percent of the Area Median Income; 26 units are for households at or below 80 percent of the AMI and the rest of the units are unrestricted, according to a King County media release.
The funds for Bonel Mobile Manor are part of $10.6 million awarded by King County in December to help create and preserve more than 600 units of affordable housing.
“The community was purchased and is preserved, avoiding any future closure or sale of the community,” said Greg Blount, executive director of Seattle-based Manufactured Housing Community Preservationists, in an email. “Closure of manufactured housing communities such as Bonel always cause tragic displacement and loss of equity for most of the homeowners that live in them.”
Blount said the infrastructure and main building are being renovated at the park. The main building includes community offices, laundry, restroom, a community room and an apartment. The water and storm drainage systems already have been replaced.
Funding for the affordable housing projects come from a variety of federal and local sources, including the voter-approved Veterans and Human Services Levy; the Regional Affordable Housing Program, funded by a state-authorized surcharge on document recording fees; 2331 Homeless Housing Act revenues, funded from another state-authorized surcharge on document recording fees specifically for the implementation of plans to end homelessness; and other local sources, including Housing Innovations for Persons with Developmental Disabilities funds and proceeds from the Mental Illness and Drug Dependency dedicated sales tax revenues.
Federal contributions for housing capital come to King County from the HOME Investment Partnerships Program.
Of the new rental units countywide, about 220 will house people who are homeless, chronically homeless or at risk of homelessness, including about 45 units set aside for homeless veterans and their families.
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