Mobile Home Park News Briefing

An attempt by an association of mobile home park residents to enforce its statutory right of first refusal has been denied by a Superior Court judge who found the association was not entitled to notice of a third-party offer because it did not have articles of incorporation as required by §31-44-3.1.

The case involved Sunny Acres MHP, located in Portsmouth, which was put up for sale in fall 2024.

In December 2024, Crown Communities LLC submitted a letter of intent proposing to purchase Sunny Acres as part of a portfolio of mobile home parks. On May 2, 2025, the park owner’s attorney sent to Our Sunny Acres Association a letter giving...

Residents of a trailer home neighborhood outside Maysville have 90 days to leave after the land was sold to tech giant Meta for a data center complex.

In October, the Mason County Fiscal Court approved the complex on 2,900 acres outside Maysville, possibly the largest industrial project in Kentucky history.

Meadowland Village sits on the edge of the allotted land. Some residents are elderly or on a fixed income. Jason Giles sits on the Maysville Commission on Human Rights, working with a growing homeless population. Giles says at least ten residents are in serious danger of becoming homeless.

“Obviously, the owner has the right to...

Years after a Riverdale mobile home park was rezoned and dozens of residents were evicted from their homes, the since-vacant parcel of land is now slated to become a car dealership.

On Oct. 20, members of the Riverdale City Council voted 4-1 to approve a site plan application for a CarMax Auto Superstores location at 671 W. 4400 South. The pre-owned car dealership would be built on a 5.5 acre parcel zoned as Regional Commercial (C-3).

Weber County residents might remember the site as the former home of Lesley’s Mobile Home Park, an area that housed 55 lots. Back in May 2023, all residents were evicted from the site, with some paying...

The Jupiter Town Council voted 4-1 on first reading Thursday, Oct. 29, to advance four ordinances tied to the Sperry Parcel, the 10.5-acre waterfront site at 961 and 997 N. A1A long known as Suni Sands.

Councilor Ron Delaney was the lone dissenter on each first-reading vote. Mayor Jim Kuretski stressed at the end of the marathon meeting that the votes were not final.

“We did not approve anything tonight,” Kuretski said, in the sense that first readings do not adopt the ordinances. The site plan itself was discussed, but was not before the council for approval.

The site, north of N. A1A and east of Clemons Street, once held the...

Dozens of residents at a New Hanover County mobile home park are demanding answers after receiving notices of significant rent increases, leaving some concerned they could be forced out of the community they have called home for years.

Residents at Port O Pines own their mobile homes but lease the land beneath them. Now, they say an unexpected increase in lot rent is putting additional financial pressure on nearly 150 households.

Daphne Shepard moved into the community in 2019, initially paying around $360 a month for a month-to-month lease. She said the affordability and location made the park an attractive option.

“It was the price...

The 1990s represented the golden age for manufactured housing. Since then, the market penetration of the industry has declined. Still, one in 20 Texas households live in manufactured housing today. Texas also has the largest number of mobile homes in the country, accounting for 11 percent of the national inventory.

As part of its work to comprehensively cover Texas housing markets, the Texas Real Estate Research Center has long partnered with the Texas Manufactured Housing Association. We jointly collect data on production in the state and publish research on the sector.

Last week, I had the opportunity to present to the Association at...

Residents of Gulf Stream Manor, a mobile home park on Gulf Highway, are asking what a foreclosure means for them as the property heads to a sheriff’s sale on Jan. 20.

The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office seized the park in 2025 at the lender’s request. Court records show the lender says it is owed more than $3 million.

A resident who did not want to speak on camera told 7News he had no idea the park was in foreclosure or that it goes up for sale in January. His question: Could he be evicted?

Real estate attorney John-Michael Lomzenski of Scofield, Gerard, Pohorelsky, Gallaugher & Landry in Lake Charles says foreclosures are hard on...

A property that once was a mobile home park is one of three sites targeted for prefabricated homes through a state grant received by the Wayne County Regional Land Bank.

The funding for the Lyons properties was announced last week by Gov. Kathy Hochul, which detailed the final round of 2026 awards for her MOVE-IN NY affordable homeownership program.

The Wayne County Regional Land Bank was awarded $3.3 million as part of $20 million dispersed statewide to land banks to create 61 homes statewide. Wayne County’s funding will be for 11 homes in three locations.

Wayne County Regional Land Bank Executive Director Kaleigh Flynn said the agency...

Jupiter will take its first step toward allowing development on the Suni Sands property at a special Town Council meeting on Thursday, Oct. 29.

The 10-acre property along the Loxahatchee River is one of the last open sites along Jupiter's waterfront, and studies have found it contains artifacts from indigenous people who lived there as long as 5,000 years ago.

Its future has long been a topic of debate. In January, the town and the property owner, Charles Modica, reached a settlement that could give the town ownership of more than half of the site, which would be preserved for the public, if the development is approved.

Through the...

Mobile home tenants from northwestern Pennsylvania traveled nearly 400 miles to Ramsey, New Jersey, to confront corporate landlord Regal Communities at its headquarters after a rent strike launched six months ago failed to yield property repairs.

According to tenants, monthly rental rates increased under Regal Communities while routine property maintenance steadily declined.

Advocacy groups Pennsylvania and Crawford County United have represented residents across regional mobile home parks, including Asbury Manor, Fountain House, Blue Coral and Summit Village, for about a year and a half.

“I hope that after we show up on their front...

They came with walkers. They came with the assistance of canes. Many in the little crowd had gray hair.

About four dozen of them gathered last week in front of the Horseshoe Drive home of their neighbor, Kevin Nodis, to see what they could do about their community, Winterset Farms.

Winterset Farms is a manufactured home community partly in Delaware County and partly in the state of Delaware. There, people have purchased their homes but they rent the lot where their home is.

In the spring, residents received notice from The Carlyle Group that they had an agreement to buy the community. About a month ago, they received new directions in how...

Residents of an Evanston mobile home park say they're paying more every year to live on property that appears to be getting less attention from its owners.

At South Park Village Mobile Home Park, residents say annual rent increases have become predictable. So have the potholes, neglected lots and snow-covered streets that they say make living there increasingly frustrating.

“Nothing has been fixed,” one resident said. “If we're expected to pay more every single year, why is it unreasonable for us to expect the property to actually be maintained?”

Residents with whom Cowboy State Daily spoke for this story requested anonymity for...

The plight of Chicopee mobile home park tenants fighting a rent hike of more than 40% reached the state’s highest court Monday, with justices at one point sharply questioning the attorney for the board that approved the increase.

Timothy Ryan, representing the Chicopee Mobile Home Rent Control Board, said his client was charged by statute to consider reasonable operating expenses and “get to the owner a fair net operating income.”

The Rent Control Board approved the owners’ request in 2022 to charge residents at BlueBird Acres Mobile Home Park for expenses after the park switched from a septic system to a connection to the sewer....

Bills aimed at preserving affordable housing for tens of thousands of Pennsylvania residents living in manufactured home communities have stalled in the state Senate, leaving supporters with little hope of securing additional protections before the current legislative session ends.

With time running out, advocates are blaming Senate Republican leadership for the lack of progress and shifting their attention to the November election, which they believe could determine their future legislative efforts.

People living in manufactured home communities, or MHCs, typically own their homes but rent the land beneath them. Private equity firms and...

As local governments seek solutions to the ongoing housing affordability crisis, recent changes to federal manufactured housing regulations may make the lower-cost housing option more attainable, experts say.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s move earlier this month to begin updating manufactured housing regulatory and efficiency standards was driven by the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which removed a longstanding requirement of a permanent chassis for manufactured homes.

The recent HUD proposals were an “unquestionably” positive development, John Lindley, president and CEO of the Michigan Manufactured...

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...