About Manufactured Home Replacement Initiative (MHRI)

DHCR is responding to an important need in rural communities with a new initiative to provide safer, more affordable homes for low-income individuals and families by replacing severely substandard and dilapidated mobile and manufactured homes with new ENERGY STAR Qualified manufactured housing.

The new statewide Manufactured Home Replacement Initiative (MHRI) targets $5 million in NYS HOME Program funds for the replacement of dilapidated owner-occupied mobile and manufactured homes that are sited on land owned by the homeowner. It also increases the award limit under HOME by sixty-six percent, from $30,000 to $50,000.

DHCR 's 2009 Regional Housing Needs studies of the North Country, Finger Lakes, and Western New York Regions highlighted the critical role that mobile and manufactured homes play in affordable housing across the state. The studies also underscored the severe deterioration of many of these homes, particularly those built prior to 1976 when the use of tin roofs, metal siding, and inefficient windows was commonplace.