A recent conversation from the Forum On The Hill series centered on protecting manufactured home communities. Locally, most manufactured homes are in need of repair or replacement, and nationwide, are threatened by development. Orange County is a place people want to live and raise their families, and manufactured housing allows a lot of low-income housing families to do that, lead organizer for Orange County Justice United Julia Sendor said. Orange County has nearly 100 manufactured home communities, and Sendor told 97.9 The Hill in December how most of the residents living there own their homes, but not the land those homes are on. She called the resulting dynamic a “strange situation” for current residents, where they have little control over the environment around their homes. For example, while a manufactured home could be one of the few affordable housing types available to a family, the park itself might not be a safe place to live. And unlike mobile homes, she said manufact...