Mobile Home Park News Briefing

Augusta Communities, a women-led nonprofit housing organization based in Upland, California, has secured $118.1 million in tax-exempt financing and completed the purchase of nine manufactured home communities across seven California counties.

This expands Augusta Communities’ portfolio to 17 properties, adding to eight existing communities in San Bernardino, Tulare, Ventura and Riverside counties. The newly acquired properties are located in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Kern, Amador, Tuolumne, Orange and San Diego counties.

Founded by Suzanne Taylor and jointly led with her daughter, Erica Taylor, Augusta Communities acquires and...

A group of out-of-state investors has purchased a second manufactured housing community site in Pierce County in as many months.

In a sale recorded Oct. 15 with Pierce County, an LLC affiliated with Dallas-based Invesco Real Estate, its subsidiary Homestead Communities and an EB-5 investment group acquired the site of Canyon Terrace at 9314 Canyon Road E., a manufactured home site in the Summit area that dates back to the 1970s.

The seller was an investment group including California entity Yorba Oil Co. Ltd., as majority owner, Hammond Construction and JABKO Firs, Inc.

The site sold for $13.65 million, according to sales records recorded...

Marcus & Millichap reports that transaction activity through the first eight months of 2026 exceeded the full-year totals for both 2023 and 2025, with the Mid-Atlantic, Pacific and Southeast regions recording the largest volumes.

MOUNT VERNON — The Mount Vernon City Council unanimously passed an emergency moratorium Wednesday on the redevelopment of existing mobile and manufactured home parks.

Mayor Peter Donovan said the item was added to the agenda after the council determined there was a need to protect existing residents of mobile and manufactured home parks.

City Attorney Kevin Rogerson said as housing in Mount Vernon becomes increasingly unaffordable due to rising costs of living, city staff have been seeking ways to help residents.

In March 2024, the council declared an affordable housing emergency, citing an affordability and homelessness...

Residents of a Bell mobile home park say the city's plan leaves them with nowhere to go. Residents spoke out Wednesday night at a city council meeting.

The Lewiston City Council will vote Tuesday on a proposed ordinance to limit mobile home park lot rent increases, part of a growing effort by residents across Maine to protect their homes from rising rents and corporate ownership.

The ordinance would cap annual lot rent increases at the rate of inflation or 5%, whichever is lower. Park owners could seek larger increases to cover major improvements.

Lewiston has 10 mobile home parks with 571 lots, more than 400 of which are owned by California-based private equity firm BoaVida Group. Residents have been organizing since January, successfully pushing the city to adopt and extend temporary...

DELAWARE - The Delaware Department of Justice is warning manufactured home community owners that combining two methods of increasing lot rent in the same year may violate state law.

In a letter sent to community owners last week, the DOJ said it received multiple consumer complaints about recent rent increases. The complaints raised concerns about landlords applying both inflation-based increases and phased-in market rent increases during the same 12-month period.

Under Delaware law, community owners may base lot rent increases on the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, market rent or a separate written agreement with a...

ENCINITAS — Facing an outcry from mobile homeowners over soaring land rents, the Encinitas City Council has directed staff to draft an emergency ordinance to curb steep increases while officials consider permanent rent protections.

The council’s Oct. 14 decision comes as some residents at Riviera Mobile Home Park in Leucadia were facing space rent increases of more than 17% beginning Nov. 1, raising concerns that longtime homeowners could be priced out of their homes.

Staff is expected to return Oct. 28 with an emergency ordinance addressing these concerns, followed by potential long-term policies that could limit annual rent...

ANDERSON, Calif. — Residents of Riverland Mobile Home Park are raising concerns about rising housing costs after receiving notice of rent increases, while the company managing the park is offering a $300 monthly credit under an agreement that outlines conditions for when that credit can end.

The issue was discussed Monday, October 19, during a community conversation at the Frontier Senior Center in Anderson. Shasta County Supervisors Allen Long and Chris Kelstrom joined Matt Davies, CEO of Harmony Communities, to discuss the recent rent increases and hear residents' concerns.

Residents have reported that monthly rent increased from $575...

Residents at Country Aire Mobile Home Park in Paducah are adjusting to another rent increase. Some in the neighborhood worry whether they can afford the new rate or will have to find other housing options.

Many people who live at Country Aire are on a fixed income, are on disability, or are elderly. Some residents said this isn’t the first time they’ve been surprised by a change in their rent. The rent will be set at $535 by January of next year, going up from $475. One resident who asked to be anonymous said when they moved into the lot in 2014 her rent was set at $155 a month. They said in 2024 it was raised to $220, then 6 months...

Residents of Phillips Mobile Home Park are likely to see their rent increase as early as January after the Board of County Commissioners gave preliminary approval of the decision Wednesday.

Phillips currently charges residents $430 per month to locate their mobile home on Pitkin County land — this includes services such as water, sewer, property management and trash. If passed at second reading, rents would increase from $430 to $550 beginning Jan. 1, with 10% annual increases from 2028 through 2031 — which was previously discussed at a September meeting.

The decision comes after numerous conversations about how Phillip’s rates are...

Elkton, Va. (WHSV) - Over the past several weeks, WHSV has received phone calls and messages from residents regarding an Elkton trailer park, as they fear potential displacement amid dispute over electrical upgrades in the town.

Residents of Rockingham Mobile Home Park expressed fear and frustration during Tuesday’s town council meeting, saying they’re caught in the middle of an alleged back-and-forth between the town and the park’s owner regarding electrical infrastructure improvements that residents say could force them to evacuate.

“They have to understand we don’t have any place to go,” Hatch said. “This is midwinter...

York Township officials are discussing the possibility of rezoning parts of the municipality.

The proposed plan would convert fifteen acres of land along South Queen Street from commercial to residential.

A mobile home community called M & G Mobile Homes is located within the parcels being considered and could be impacted by the rezoning.

One resident spoke with CBS 21, who chose to remain anonymous, and said she has been living in the community for more than 20 years.

“I do not want to leave. This is our home. I was just getting ready to redo my room, living room, because I already insulated the back part of my home,” she said.

The...

For decades, manufactured home builders have been working to shed the old image of boxy trailer homes reserved for the outskirts of cities and suburbia. Now, a small change in federal regulations could open the door for architecture welcomed in more neighborhoods.

This summer’s sweeping housing bill, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, removed a 1974 mandate that required every manufactured home to be built on a nonremovable steel frame, known as a chassis. Experts and home producers think the change could help unlock thousands more affordable housing options around the country.

But first, experts say, states have to examine outdated...

For months, residents of San Lazaro Mobile Home Park have been racing to counter a $42.5 million offer for their park from an anonymous buyer. They fear a new owner could raise rents or sell the land beneath their homes, potentially displacing longtime residents.

Now, the City of Boulder is offering a $1.3 million loan to help them buy the property themselves — far less than residents had hoped for, and with a condition that could bring millions in additional costs.

The loan would be forgiven if the park is annexed into Boulder. But residents, who live just outside city limits, do not want to take on the estimated $8 million to $10...

Residents of a Longmont mobile home park are scrambling to find a way to buy their community after learning the owners intend to sell the property. Current residents are now raising concerns about potential rent increases and the loss of affordable housing.

Daniel Crowley is one of about 100 people residents estimate that live at Mountain View Mobile Home Community who received a letter last month notifying them of the planned sale. Now, he's worried a new owner could raise rents beyond what residents can afford.

"We can't afford any more than what we're paying right now, and they're talking about keeping raising rent," Crowley said,...

FALLBROOK (KGTV) — Some senior residents of Crestview Hills Mobile Home Park in Fallbrook are facing two rent increases this year following the recent sale of the community.

Rita Burn, who moved into the park when she retired in 2017, received a letter informing her of a second rent increase tied to a property tax reassessment under the new owner.

"The recent sale of Crestview Hills will result in a substantial and near-term property tax reassessment, including supplemental property taxes payable by the new owner. And higher ongoing annual property taxes."

When Burn moved in, she paid $825 a month in rent. Still on a fixed income, her...

MIAMI — On Monday, Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch sided with a developer after the residents of a trailer park in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood sought the court’s help.

The Silver Court Mobile Home Park Homeowners Association, the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit, sought injunctive relief, a court-ordered halt on the evictions of vulnerable residents.

Most of the residents, who own their mobile homes and rent the land, “are families and low-wage workers, or elderly and disabled individuals on a fixed income,” Attorneys Carrie J. Feit, Jeffrey M. Hearne, Christopher Duany, and Wilna Coles wrote in the lawsuit,...

One of Encinitas Action’s focus areas is housing, which includes preserving our existing naturally occurring affordable housing and preventing predatory landlord practices. Consistent with our mission, we want to alert you to an important housing item on next week’s council agenda – Manufactured Home Park Land Leases.

On November 1, some Encinitas manufactured park homeowners will get a ~17% increase for the ground underneath them.

They can’t move the house. Selling it is hard when the rent for the ground increases at such a high rate. And right now, no state or city law caps what that ground can cost. Research indicates that less...

JAY — With voters preparing to decide whether to limit mobile home park lot rent increases Nov. 3, an organizer working with local residents says some households have already faced increases of $50 to $200 per month, adding hundreds or thousands of dollars to annual housing costs.

Lorri Nandrea, a field organizer with the Maine Labor Climate Council, said rising rents and corporate ownership are putting pressure on residents who typically own their homes but rent the land beneath them, making relocation difficult or financially impossible.

“Rent raises put them at risk of losing their own homes, in which they have invested their...

In July, the manufactured housing industry secured a major policy win — the removal of the permanent chassis requirement — following the passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.

Industry leaders argue the change will help manufactured housing gain greater acceptance in higher-density suburban, urban and infill markets, and better support the construction of multi-story homes.

However, they acknowledge that it could take at least a year, if not more, to begin realizing those benefits, as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) must first implement any changes to the manufactured housing HUD code before...

Douglassville, PA – Today, Governor Josh Shapiro visited a manufactured housing community in Berks County to call for reform to protect Pennsylvanians living in manufactured home communities from predatory practices often used by out-of-state property management companies. In his 2026 Budget Address, Governor Shapiro called on the Pennsylvania General Assembly to pass legislation limiting annual lot rent increases for manufactured housing communities. This legislation, coupled with reforms included in the Governor’s 2026-27 proposed budget and Housing Action Plan, would protect manufactured homeowners and help make housing more...

HUDSON, FL (WFTS) — Many people choose manufactured or mobile homes because they can offer a more affordable path to homeownership. But for those who own their homes while renting the land underneath them, rising lot rents are creating new financial pressures.

Harry Moniz has lived in the Club Wildwood mobile home community in Hudson for about four years.

He enjoys spending time tinkering with his model trains on his patio. What he doesn't enjoy is watching the cost of living in his community continue to climb.

“Every year it goes up. In the contract it says they have a ceiling of 6%,” he told Tampa Bay 28.

When Moniz moved into the...

It’s 9:15 in the morning. The wind is roaring at 110 miles per hour (177 kph); the sound is deafening. Dust swirls through the air. We are watching a single-wide manufactured home rock back and forth, as it is pounded by turbulent wind.

Then, in an instant, the screws shear off and the entire unit tumbles backward, rolling two full revolutions before it stops.

In any other situation, this would be terrifying. But here, we are conducting a first-of-its-kind experiment at Florida International University’s Wall of Wind, a test facility that can reproduce wind speeds the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane.

We are testing a full-scale...

I am not a private investor in a manufactured housing community in New Hampshire. I am a widowed, very retired senior on a fixed income living in a manufactured housing community in New Hampshire.

I am not disputing the market value of my home. Our homes were re-assessed right along side the other homes in our town. The value increase was previous to the investor’s purchase.

We attempted to become a resident owned community (ROC) but our matching offer was rejected.

I was our board president and our members were all in on the “estimated” monthly fee in our Park of $1,000, understanding that WE would have control of the future of...