Mobile Home Park News Briefing

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...

BILLINGS, Mont. — For residents of Golden Meadows Mobile Home Park in Billings, owning a home does not necessarily mean being protected from rising housing costs.

Residents own their mobile homes but rent the land underneath them. Several residents say their lot rent has increased significantly in recent years, putting added pressure on people who are already struggling to keep up with the cost of living.

Bob Rausch has lived at Golden Meadows for decades. He is one of the residents grandfathered into his lot rent, but he says even his monthly payment has increased substantially.

Rausch says he was paying $275 a month about four years...

When Kevin Good moved into Tamarack Mobile Home Park in New Providence in 2024, he thought he’d found a home where he could retire. He purchased his house for about $100,000 with a mortgage and paid $375 a month to rent the land it sits on.

Just two years later, Good said, Tamarack’s new property owner has increased his rent to $615 since January and plans to further raise it to $715 by 2028. Good, who is 62, said he’ll need to work as long as he can to afford future increases.

“I know it’s a business, but it’s also a business that involves real people and real lives and real impact,” Good said. “If you just look at the...

The notice arrived on January 2, 2024, the first working day of the year, when Meadowood Village was still quiet and the yards were glazed with winter frost. Many residents of the 55-and-over mobile home community in Littleton, Colorado — about 10 miles south of downtown Denver — expected something cheerful. A “Happy New Year” from management, maybe.

What they found instead was a 10-page “Notice of Intent to Sell.” Without warning, Meadowood’s owners had put the land beneath their homes on the market, and there was a potential buyer.

The park’s 139 residents — most of them retired and living on fixed incomes —...

CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – Over 400 residents in the Belleglade Mobile Home Community came together to form a tenant union this week over concerns about what they called exploitative and abusive practices by new ownership, according to a letter shared with Clarksville Now.

On Thursday, the residents, as well as representatives with new ownership, met for a town hall meeting to discuss concerns and share their perspectives. Montgomery County Mayor Wes Golden and County Commissioner Lisa Prichard attended and acted as mediators. Belleglade is off of Fort Campbell Boulevard near the Clarksville Regional Airport.

In the letter...

SAN ANTONIO — As Nancy Rodriguez waters the plants outside her new mobile home, she is working to make unfamiliar surroundings feel like home. Four months earlier, Rodriguez did not know whether she would ever get there.

After years at the same San Antonio mobile home park, Rodriguez received an eviction notice requiring her to move.

“When I got the notice to evict, I was scared because I didn’t know where I was going,” Rodriguez said. “I didn’t know how I was going to have my mobile home moved, how I was going to pay for it, who was going to help me. I just didn’t know.”

Rodriguez works two jobs, one as a janitor and the...

An open house and information night was held earlier this week for members of the Glen Elm community about the re-development of the old trailer park.

What was once a place with 158 homes and around 300 people now sits empty.

The project is bringing much needed updates to the water and sewage systems for the area, which was cited as the reason for the trailer park’s eviction in the first place.

Once the infrastructure is completed, the site is proposed to be a combination of townhouses and apartment buildings. The change to higher density living will result in the population of the neighborhood to increase from 300 as a trailer park to...

Ken Templeton was shocked when the city told him a new tenant could be required to pay more than $21,000 if they wanted to put a mobile home on the land he has owned since 1976.

Templeton owns and manages the White Swan Mobile Home Court and the Highland Park Mobile Home Estates. His father bought the land before him, and he’s managed the property for nearly 50 years.

Five years ago, a mobile home moved and left one of the 240 lots vacant. When Templeton approached the city recently to request a new mobile home on the lot, he was told the applicant would have to pay for the charges.

Currently, the fee is roughly $7,000. In 2027, it will...

TROY, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Champion Homes, Inc. (NYSE: SKY) (“Champion” or “the Company”) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Timberline Homes, Inc. (THI), representing nine retail locations across key Southeastern U.S. markets, including Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. These locations align closely with Champion’s manufacturing and distribution presence in the region.

Timberline is a highly respected retailer with nine established retail locations. The company offers a wide range of options, supporting customers through permitting, financing, home selection and site...

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act’s champions on both sides of the aisle called the law the largest housing legislation in decades. But will it actually increase the supply of housing in the U.S.?

Tram Hoang, senior associate at PolicyLink, expressed skepticism of the law’s ability to spur new housing. “It doesn’t do anything meaningful to directly produce housing, let alone affordable housing,” says Hoang, pointing out that the legislation doesn’t mandate new housing anywhere.

Much of what the legislation promises won’t happen unless Congress funds it, a hollowed-out HUD can effectively implement it, and private...

Private equity has become an important target on the campaign trail for the US midterms as candidates blame large investors for soaring housing costs.

An FT analysis of campaign language in competitive congressional races over the past decade found that negative comments about private equity and corporate landlords have risen sharply in 2026, with their investments frequently being linked to rising prices. In previous election cycles, Wall Street and the banking sector were singled out for driving up the cost of living.

Chris Pappas, a moderate Democratic House member who won New Hampshire’s open Senate primary in September, is one of the...

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - Brunswick County is facing a new lawsuit over a mobile home permit application, with the complaint alleging roughly $700,000 in alleged damages and violations of state law.

Mobile home developer Shawn Vincent applied for a permit to place a mobile home on Leland School Road in Leland and had a buyer from Texas set up. Brunswick County then denied his permit application, a decision the Board of Adjustment upheld after an appeal.

“It’s not just me. They displaced a family, which I think is terrible,” Vincent said.

Vincent is now suing Brunswick County, asking a court to reverse that decision. He filed his...

Bill Boor, president and CEO of Phoenix-based Cavco Industries Inc., is in Washington, D.C., unveiling a new type of home at the 2026 Innovative Housing Showcase at the National Mall.

He is debuting the first manufactured home constructed without a permanent steel chassis frame, built to the codes of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

This new product allows a manufactured home to be placed closer to the ground. It was designed to help address the nation's affordable housing crisis.

This new HUD code is a result of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act that Congress passed in July. Policymakers are getting a first...

BUCKS COUNTY, PA – State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) will introduce legislation establishing an Office of Manufactured Housing Ombudsman to help Pennsylvania manufactured home residents understand their rights and resolve disputes with community owners.

Sen. Santarsiero's legislation, Senate Bill 1446, will serve as a Senate companion to House Bill 2098, sponsored by Rep. Joe Ciresi (D-146) and co-sponsored by Rep. Tim Brennan (D-29), which would establish an Office of Manufactured Home Ombudsman and a Manufactured Home Hearing Board.

The legislation would provide residents and community owners with a dedicated process for resolving...

About 30 families still residing in the mobile home park Silver Court, located in Little Havana in Miami, appeared before the city commissioners this Thursday to demand more financial support before the evictions begin, as reported by Telemundo 51.

The deadline to vacate the complex is September 30, leaving only six days to find a solution to the problem.

Neighbors report that the available relocation assistance—estimated at about $10,000—is completely inadequate to tackle the rental market in Miami, where the average rent exceeds $3,285 per month.

"That's a shame because everything is expensive nowadays," stated Elvin Arévalo, one of the...