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State of Vermont Agency of Development & Community Affairs v. Bisson, 161 Vt. 8 (1993)

Citation
State of Vermont Agency of Development & Community Affairs v. Bisson, 161 Vt. 8 (1993)
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State of Vermont Agency of Development & Community Affairs v. Bisson, 161 Vt. 8 (1993)
Jurisdiction
Vermont (state)
Effective Date
1993-09-17
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In its findings supporting the Mobile Home Parks Act, the Legislature stated that “there is a substantial need for new housing... for moderate and low-income groups, which need is likely to increase in the future,” that the “construction of conventional homes has failed to provide sufficient low cost housing,” and that “most of the new housing available to moderate and low-income groups consists of mobile homes.” 1969, No. 291 (Adj. Sess.), § 1(d), (e). Addressing these problems, the Legislature stated that one of the purposes of the Act is “to protect the health, safety and welfare of the residents of mobile home developments.” id. § 2. Accordingly, § 6287 provides owners and renters of mobile homes, who tend to be lower-income groups that may have difficulty finding alternative housing, added security from arbitrary eviction. This is a sufficient rationale for treating mobile home renters different from other renters. Cf. Hurricane v. Kanover, Ltd., 651 P.2d 1218, 1222 (Colo. 1982) (rejecting park owner’s claim that mobile home statute violated equal protection by giving greater protection to mobile home tenants than to apartment tenants because statutory classification, which involved neither fundamental right nor suspect class, bore rational relationship to legitimate state interest).