Mobile Home Park News Briefing

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...

After two years of fighting, residents of Evergreen Village in Summerside are taking their case to the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission.

Residents of the 57-lot mobile home park are claiming its owner, Clifford McQuaid, failed to follow the proper process in evicting them. They'll bring that argument to IRAC through a hearing set for Nov. 5.

Reasha Walsh has been acting as a representative for the community and said there has not been any "meaningful negotiation" with the landlord over the past several months and there appears to be no meaningful way to move ahead.

"We believe that when issuing the official eviction, which we got...

Residents of Rivercrest Estates must leave the mobile home park by Oct. 30, when the City of Princeton will ask county inspectors to tag homes uninhabitable for lack of running water.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP — When Bobbie Miller and her husband Steven bought their mobile home in rural Centre County 25 years ago, it seemed like the perfect place to grow older.

The new home on Dogwood Circle was affordable, part of a community owned by a local couple, and right next to Bald Eagle State Park. They have good neighbors.

Miller likes where she lives. But she wants to leave — and isn’t sure she can.

They own the home, but not the land beneath it. In the past, the couple planned for a $10 hike to their monthly lot fees every other year. Since a private company purchased the property last fall, fees have gone up three times, including...

When Eugene-based nonprofit St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County bought Saginaw Mobile Home Park in 2017, it was in pretty rough shape, according to executive director Bethany Cartledge.

“A bunch of potholes in the road, really hard to drive,” she said. “You have to really watch where you're going. Poor sanitation, failing infrastructure, a lot of dilapidated homes that really needed to be pulled out and replaced.”

St. Vincent de Paul owns and operates more than 1,400 affordable rental homes in five Oregon counties.

“And some of those have been maybe $200,000 per unit,” she said.

But, when it came time to replace and grow at...

Residents of Phillips Mobile Home Park in Woody Creek could see their monthly rent increase after the Pitkin County Board of County Commissioners discussed those changes at a meeting Tuesday. 

The board signaled support Tuesday for raising monthly rents from $430 to $550 in 2027, but will wait until Oct. 14 to make a final decision. 

Housing Program Analyst Andrew Miller said that tenants would need to be notified of an increase by Nov. 2. He called rent increases “the most time sensitive item that we bring to you.”

The rent discussions come as construction began at the mobile home park Sept. 1, which includes site grading, installation...

Overnight, the gate tripled the travel time to the children’s elementary school. Later, it delayed a woman’s oxygen delivery. Every time a wildfire threatens their homes, it stands between residents and safety.

The sturdy gate is also an everyday reminder of the class divide separating the 350 homes in Cavalier Mobile Estates from the larger family homes of their neighbors on the other side of it.

Six years ago, South Oceanside neighbors banded together to raise thousands of dollars to build and lock a gate between them and the mobile home park next door. They said they were fed up with the increased traffic and parking issues that the...

Laramie City Councilors signaled their interest in revamping the city’s mobile home park regulations during a work session Tuesday.

The council is likely to scale back some siting regulations that hinder the placement of manufactured homes, especially in West Laramie, following testimony from several park owners.

Councilors could further examine fire risk in the parks, rules surrounding RVs and rentals, and the utility fees that parks have started charging on top of lot rent. But Mayor Sharon Cumbie said the council would be hesitant to institute changes that drive up residents’ monthly bills.

“I think we have identified some definite...

TOWN OF SOUTHPORT, N.Y. (WENY) — After two years, discussions about the future of Cherry Lane Trailer Park are still ongoing.

During Tuesday’s town board meeting, several residents raised concerns about the state of the trailer park. They were eager to discuss the park with town officials, but were unable to do so during the meeting.

“What I told the public is that the board and the supervisor are still considering information, and it's still under review,” said Town of Southport Supervisor Joseph Roman. “We are still working on it as the town; that's the information that I have right now.”

Roman said the town was unable to provide a...

MALTA, N.Y. (WNYT)- Residents at Malta Gardens Mobile Home Park say a sale of the park has left them worried about evictions and what comes next.

Residents told NewsChannel 13 they have been informed the park was sold, but they said they do not know what the new owner plans to do with the property. Some said they have already received eviction notices, often because their homes are in disrepair or do not meet park standards.

The issue is especially difficult because residents own their mobile homes but rent the land beneath them. Residents said many of the homes are old and may not survive a move, while many people also cannot afford...

(Missoula Current) For the second time this month, Missoula County is asking an out-of-state investment firm to meet and discuss the future of two mobile home parks and the impact that recent rent hikes have had on residents.

The letter, sent to Axia Realty Partners based in Dallas, again urges the firm to meet with residents and establish an open line of communication. This time, however, it also asks Axia to consider selling the properties so that residents may establish a resident-owned community.

“Residents in these communities own these homes but rent the land underneath it,” said John Wilke, the county's housing policy specialist....

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Residents of a low-income mobile home park in south Reno have moved out after being told earlier this year by the owner that they had 30 days to leave, and people connected to the property say the land is likely headed for commercial development.

About a dozen mobile homes were still standing in the past week and were about to be removed or demolished at the former Evergreen Trailer Park off Virginia Street in south Reno.

In April, residents received a 30-day notice to move out. Lloyd Palmer, a former resident, said at the time, “Well, 30 days isn't enough, I don't think. We've been here nine years. I'm...