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State Land Use Enacted Legislation
| Bill # | State | Year | Party | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
SB 1327 |
VA | 2021 | D | Affordable housing incentives and financing, Manufactured Housing, Planning Requirements |
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Summary
- Restricts the circumstances under which a court can order a person’s primary residence be sold due to unpaid debt.
- Require localities to incorporate into their comprehensive plans strategies to promote manufactured housing as a source of affordable housing, through strategies such as the preservation of existing manufactured housing communities, the creation of new manufactured home communities, and the creation of new manufactured home subdivisions.
- Requires the Director of Housing and Community Development to develop a statement of tenant rights and responsibilities under the Virginia Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act.
- Prevents trustees of residential real estate from selling the property in the case of a foreclosure sale without an affidavit, in the case where residential real estate is in the name of a neutral trustee and not the borrower of the mortgage. Increases the notice period for a foreclosure sale and requires such notice to provide the grantor with certain information,in the case of a deed of trust conveying owner-occupied residential real estate.
- Requires the landlord of a manufactured home park to provide tenants who own their manufactured home certain information.
Provided by lawmakers
Bill Title
Housing Bill of Rights; housing protections; foreclosures; manufactured housing.
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