Manufactured Home Weatherization & Rehabilitation
Improving Energy Efficiency, Enhancing Health & Well-being
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"Design Refine Team" Home Visits In June, our "design refine team" visited four manufactured homes in the Resident Owned Community (ROC) - Buena Vista. The team is made up of local builders and architects who designed new & creative skirting models our "design charette" in February. They worked to refine the skirting designs based on specific aspects of the mobile home and desires of the homeowners. In the News Check out this Missoula Current article detailing the launching of the project and some of the work we've accomplished during 2017-2018. Sustainable Missoula: Manufactured home rehab team seeks to preserve affordable housing. |
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Design Charette This past February, we hosted a "design charrette" at Home ReSource, engaging stakeholders from multiple different sectors including builders, architects, weatherization professionals and manufactured home residents to collaboratively brainstorm cost effective, substantial and eco-friendly improvements for skirting and underbelly of manufactured homes. Thanks to our wonderful community volunteers, our team completed the workshop and designed new & creative models for re-skirting mobile homes. After completing the charrette we identified individual manufactured home residents interested in our skirting repair/replacement model for their home. Then we reached out to participants of the design charrette and any others with building and design expertise to create a "design refine team". Members of this group will visit the identified homes and refine the skirting designs based on specific aspects of the mobile home and desires of the homeowners. |
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In partnership with NeighborWorks Montana, Home ReSource and the Missoula Human Resource Council, we co-hosted a Manufactured Home Resource Fair with the goal of providing valuable resources and information for manufactured home residents in the categories of Home Repair, Weatherization, Financial & Legal Counseling and Health.
In addition to the hosting and coordinating organizations Homeword, MoFi, Montana Legal Services and Missoula Urban Demonstration Project attended and shared great resources with residents. The MT Dept of Health and Human Services, Missoula Food Bank, American Lung Association in Montana and Missoula Federal Credit Union had flyers and information available about home health and home financing respectively. Thanks to generous support from the National Center for Appropriate Technology attendees received free weatherization, energy and health related home supplies such as LED lights, weather-stripping, pipe wraps and window insulation kits. We're grateful for all organizations that came and shared resources! |
"Pop Up" Resource Events We've continued providing resources to residents to help with Home Repair, Weatherization, Financial & Legal Counseling and Health through "pop up" resource events hosted directly in manufactured home communities. We set up a tent and hand out information about organizations and resources to help residents improve theirs homes, work on their budgets and credit and address health improvements for homes. We also hand out FREE home weatherization supplies like LED light-bulbs, window-weatherstripping and pipe insulation wrap. In July, we hosted two "pop up" resource events in separate communities. These events have been a great success. We hope to continue this effort moving forward. |
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