Mobile Home Park News Briefing

Residents of Sunset Park, a 55-and-older mobile home community in Loveland, are working to buy the property themselves after learning it is being sold to new corporate ownership.

Led by resident Tim Fritch, the effort aims to preserve affordable housing and give residents greater control over rents and management.

Fritch and his wife moved to Sunset Park four years ago, expecting it to be their last home. The community offered an affordable place to settle down, but rising housing costs have added to residents’ concerns about their future.

“When we came in, we were around $874,” Fritch said of the couple’s monthly rent....

Southfield, MI, Oct. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sun Communities, Inc. (NYSE: SUI) (the “Company” or “SUI”), a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) that owns and operates, or has an interest in, manufactured housing (“MH”) and recreational vehicle (“RV”) communities (collectively, the “properties”), today reported its third quarter results for 2026.

Same Property Net Operating Income (“NOI”) increased by $10.4 million and $38.4 million, or 3.6% and 5.2%, respectively, for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2026, as compared to the corresponding periods in 2025.

“We delivered another strong...

Dallas-based fintech startup Zippy, a lender and loan servicer for manufactured homes, raised $20 million in a Series C round.

Zippy said the money, all from New York-based alternative investment firm Saluda Grade, will enable it to broaden its national presence, improve its technology and build its network of partnerships.

Since being founded in 2021, Zippy has raised about $85 million in equity, co-founder and CEO Ben Halliday told Dallas Innovates.

Zippy currently offers manufactured-home mortgages in 27 states. Halliday said the company adds a handful of new states each quarter.

“We’re following transaction volume across the...

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Dozens of families in a mobile home community near Wentzville are being evicted as a plan to rezone their neighborhood into a commercial area awaits a final vote.

The impacted families live in a mobile home community along Highway Z, south of Interstate 70. Families were served eviction notices by the land owner, CastleGate LLC., at the end of September and were told to move out by December 1.

A rezoning application sent to St. Charles County shows the land owner plans to turn the roughly 18-acre section of neighborhood into a shopping center, with plans to eventually replace additional mobile...

Residents who live in a trailer park next to Arrowhead RV Park received a letter on Sept. 1 alerting them that the mobile home park will be permanently closing in the spring.

Many of the residents in this trailer park own their trailer and live on fixed incomes, but they got a letter from Arrowhead Park LLC that stated they need to move their trailers out by Mar. 1.

"My concern is what is everybody going to do," said Vincie Woody, who has owns her trailer and has lived in the park for three years. "Some can not move their places, and they own it, so they just lose what we own."

We talked with the owner of Arrowhead Park LLC on the phone....

Changes at municipally owned Kincardine trailer park will affect dozens of seasonal tenants who now face a deadline to leave. CTV London's Scott Miller reports.

For some mobile-home owners in Montana, the place they’ve called home for decades is becoming harder to afford as lot rents continue to rise.

In Billings, residents of Golden Meadows say the increases are leaving them uncertain about their future and worried about what happens if they can no longer afford to stay. They’re looking for ways to protect their homes, explore potential solutions and have a greater say in decisions affecting their lives.

For Nancy Moore, who has lived at Golden Meadows for 30 years, the uncertainty is especially difficult. She raised two children in the community and now worries about where she would go if...

Ardene Hagadorn lives in a Colorado Springs mobile home park for older adults, where more than half the 225 residents have banded together to fight what they say are safety concerns and cost-prohibitive lease increases under new ownership.

“The predatory landlord and unresponsive management are making it near impossible to live here anymore,” she said. “People are facing homelessness.”

That’s why the 125 members of a newly formed tenants’ union at Circle Drive Mobile Home Park will demonstrate on Saturday, calling for the property owner and management to negotiate with residents for improved living conditions.

“We’re...

This past summer, a Canadian private equity firm became Michigan’s third-largest landlord to little fanfare. On an earnings call, Brookfield Asset Management disclosed that it had deployed its first investment to purchase YES! Communities , one of the largest manufactured housing owners in the country, with over 80,000 home sites in 23 states, including 21,574 home sites in Michigan.

This acquisition shows just how quickly a single investment firm can expand its control over Michigan’s housing market with little to no input from the thousands of Michiganders now paying rent to a new landlord. While the recently-passed federal ROAD to...

The federal government has its eye on supercharging manufactured housing , aiming to encourage new innovations that bring down the cost of living.

And yet, only a fraction of the country could actually see the benefit under current rules. Just 17% of the nation is zoned to explicitly allow manufactured housing communities, according to the latest Realtor.com® report on the sector.

If this zoning hurdle were put aside, some cities could see major benefits from allowing more manufactured housing, Realtor.com found. Manufactured housing is booming in some cities , and the federal government has pushed changes to make it easier to build and...

AUSTIN, Texas – A federal change could give manufactured housing a new shot at the entry-level market by lowering production costs and making factory-built homes look more like site-built homes, but local zoning rules will determine whether that opportunity becomes new housing, according to a new Realtor.com report .

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act removes a long-standing requirement that manufactured homes be built on a permanent steel chassis for towing. Homes built without a chassis must receive the same treatment as homes with a chassis for financing, titling, insurance, taxes, transport and installation. The change can reduce...

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...