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Originally Posted by LieutenantEd
Many of us about 5 decades ago planned and dreamed of our first home and an end to renting. A starter home, just the basics for our families. After a few years, maybe a move up to the next level as our budget allowed.In order to attract working families to the new schools, neighborhoods, and careers in Villages businesses. The Villages started with affordable Manufactured homes, with several of those manufacturers nearby, a partnership with The Villages could provide a path to affordable first time home ownership in the newest planned family areas. With current 2/2 Patio Villa prices approaching $300,000, it’s time to consider something different for first time homebuyers in the new planned family Village areas.
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"Can of worms" comes to mind...
I understand the rationale. Planned "family areas" would be designed to house people working in TV. But those workers already have children attending TV charter schools so they ALREADY have access to TV in order to work. Moving them closer, or developing additional housing in or adjacent to TV, is really a solution for which no problem really exists.
An additional goal of such development, as I understand it, would be to reduce vehicular traffic (assumedly that traffic consisting of workers coming into or out of TV) but really that seems minor compared to the traffic problems caused by a lagging infrastructure and hordes of Villagers (particularly in high "snowbird" season) already clogging our street and roads.
Finally, "manufactured housing" in the minds of some (many?) is synonymous with "trailer park", with all the negative connotations that such a development would bring. Maybe it is an ungrounded fear, but manufactured housing in TV for young people working in service jobs would assuredly bring in people that the retired and older residents of TV do NOT want around and in many cases moved here to escape the problems that such a population inevitably seems to bring.
In my mind such a plan would cause more problems than it solves.