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The 2011 storm flooded Brattleboro's Tri-Park community, which like many mobile home parks is built on flood-prone land that is generally cheaper and rejected by property developers. Vermont last year created the state's first environmental justice policy, highlighting mobile home parks as disproportionately hit by flooding. "For decades, mobile home parks have been overlooked at every level of government," she said. Boulder, Colorado, for instance, is working to address flood risk in some of its mobile home parks, after formally recognizing the importance of manufactured housing in 2019. "Over the past week, I've already heard a few people raise the question of 'Why do folks keep buying or moving their mobile homes into flood-prone parks?'"