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(RECAP: Reckon mobile home park and chances are it’s not a pretty picture. The reality is many mobile home parks in central Virginia are in poor condition and provide environments unfit for occupancy, underscoring negative stereotypes, a recent study shows. But some parks are well-maintained and come with street lighting, community centers and recreational parks or open green spaces. These provide the keys to rethinking what mobile home parks — or manufactured housing communities — can become, housing experts say. “We reckon there is opportunity for mobile home living to be included in affordable housing,” said Lee Householder, executive director of Project: Homes, a Richmond nonprofit that constructs and repairs homes for low-income people. Householder was one of 15 speakers at a conference in Henrico Country last month on mobile homes that drew more than 100 people interested in taking a new look at the potential for mobile home parks.)