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HOUSING AFFORDABILITY <br />• While Tukwila has traditionally been sought out for its affordable housing prices, rents and <br />mortgage payments are rising and are a cost burden for many residents. More than half (50.2 %) of <br />residents pay more than 35% or more of their income on housing. <br />• There is an unmet need for housing for very low- income residents earning less than 30% of the area <br />median income (AMI). Approximately one -fifth of residents earn less than 30% AMI, yet only slightly <br />less than 4% of housing is considered affordable for these residents. <br />Housing Policy 3.2.1 —3.2.10: Support efforts to provide the City's fair shore of affordable housing; <br />Existing policy does not address affordable housing for very -low income (less than 30% AMI) residents <br />KCPP H -2: Focus on housing for households earning less than 30% AMI <br />• Over 60% of the homes in Tukwila's four mobile home parks are pre -HUD code 2. Approximately a <br />quarter of the 88 manufactured homes on individual single - family homes are pre -HUD code homes. <br />• The City has received public comments expressing concern over living conditions within <br />manufactured /mobile homes and the associated risks to buyers of these homes. <br />Existing policies do not address mobile homes <br />DIVERSITY OF HOUSING <br />• The majority of the City's housing stock consists of older, 2 bedroom single - family homes and <br />apartments in large multi - family developments. This range of housing options does not <br />accommodate residents in all stages of life, including young adults, multi - generational families, and <br />older adults hoping to "age in place." <br />z Due to concerns over the quality, durability, health and safety of mobile /manufactured homes, Congress passed the Federal <br />Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act in 1974, which led to the creation of a national manufactured - <br />housing code, referred to as the "HUD code," to which all new manufactured homes constructed after 1976 were required to <br />conform. <br />Page 2 of 4 <br />4/7/2015 <br />W: \Long Range Projects \2014 CompPlanUpdate \Residential Neighborhoods \April 27 2015 Joint Work Session \4_27 Work <br />Session Issues Memo BG Format.docx <br />