1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Manufactured Housing Community Sustainability Act of 2017 . 2. Findings The Congress finds that— (1) more than 17,000,000 people live in manufactured homes and benefit from high-quality affordable homes which provide stability; (2) owners of manufactured homes have disproportionately low-income households, and in 2013, the median annual household income for living in manufactured housing was $28,400; (3) approximately 75 percent of manufactured home households earn less than $50,000 per year; (4) more than 10 percent of veterans in the United States live in manufactured homes; (5) in late 1990, manufactured housing represented 2/3 of the new affordable housing produced in the United States and remains the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the United States; (6) in 2015, the average cost per square foot for a new manufactured home was 48 dollars, less than half of the cost per square foot for a new-site built, structure-only home, which was $101; (7) in 2009, 43 percent of all new homes that sold for less than $150,000 were manufactured homes; (8) manufactured homes account for 23 percent of new home sales under $200,000; (9) more than 50,000 manufactured home communities, also referred to as mobile home parks , exist throughout the United States; (10) more than 2,900,000 manufactured homes are placed in manufactured home communities; (11) manufactured home communities provide critical affordable housing, but receive very little Federal, State, or local funds to subsidize the cost of manufactured homes; (12) manufactured home owners in such communities may own the home, but they do not own the land under the home, which leaves the home owners vulnerable to rent increases, arbitrary rule enforcement, and in the case of a manufactured home community owner converting the land to some other use, community closure