Miami is now the most rent-burdened metropolitan area in the United States. Over three-quarters of people living in South Florida reported having difficulty affording basic household expenses, according to the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey.

With affordable housing options ever more elusive, one Miami-Dade suburb is experiencing another Florida trend that’s making the issue even worse: the disappearance of mobile home parks. A staple of housing throughout the state, they have long provided working-class families and those living on a fixed income an affordable solution to homeownership.

Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park in Sweetwater is...

The Pacific Palisades Community Council has announced its support for Senate Bill 749, a measure designed to protect residents of the Palisades Bowl Mobile Home Park, which was destroyed in the devastating Palisades Fire, as the bill heads to a hearing in the Assembly Appropriations Committee on August 20.

Authored by State Senator Ben Allen, SB 749 amends California’s Civil Code to ensure housing stability for mobile home park residents affected by wildfires or other natural disasters. The bill mandates that if a mobilehome park is rebuilt at the same location, management must offer renewed tenancy to previous homeowners on terms similar...

In March of 2024, when the Lakeway Estates manufactured home community in Bellingham was purchased by HavenPark Communities, a subsidiary of a private equity firm, a resident told The Bellingham Herald that nobody there planned to complain until there was “good reason.”

Now, more than a year after the $41 million sale, the senior residents say many of them are being priced out of the park due to hefty increases in lot rent.

“We live here. This is our home. They don’t care that we are people, that we live in this park. To them, we are an investment,” said one resident. The Herald spoke with five longtime residents of the park who requested...

Hundreds of Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park residents packed a Miami-Dade County Courthouse in downtown Miami on Thursday morning to push back on evictions.

Two different homes in the famed Montauk Shores — a trailer park that has long been a warm-weather escape for billionaires — can be yours for less than $500,000.

Mobile homes at the Montauk Shores skyrocketed in both popularity and prices over the past several years, with some trailers fetching multimillion-dollar prices.

As the summer of 2025 winds down, however, the in-demand community is offering some serious discounts.

A freshly listed two-bedroom is on offer for $450,000, according to an Out East listing update.

At 636 square feet, this seaside trailer offers a better price and arguably better views than a similarly sized Midtown...

(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania’s manufactured home owners need a miracle from the state Senate.

And quickly.

Legislation meant to soften the blow of land rent increases remains stalled in the upper chamber amid a particularly tense session gridlock. This leaves some owners facing rent hikes of up to 50% and creates a financial crisis for them.

Impacted residents are anxious and have reached out to their representatives, who are trying to help, though lay the blame on Senate inaction.

House Bill 1250, sponsored by Rep. Liz Hanbidge, D-Blue Bell, passed the lower chamber in June, with a 144-59 vote, including support from 42...

Woman charged with disorderly conduct at Li'l Abner Mobile Home Park management office goes to trial.

Ivan Taylor reports Vivian Hernandez faces three misdemeanor charges. Hernandez said she wants to go to trial, insisting she did nothing wrong.

LAKE PLACID — Residents of the Cascade Acres mobile home park have secured funding from the state and village in a last-minute attempt to stop the sale of the land that their 124 manufactured homes sit on by matching an offer from a private equity firm, allowing the residents to exercise their right of first refusal.

The residents’ purchase offer had not been accepted by deadline on Thursday evening and was still being debated by lawyers. But Cascade Acres resident and homeowners association co-founder Ryan Preston was hopeful it will work.

The village board held a special meeting on Tuesday to unanimously approve a loan of up to $420,000...

The sale of the former mobile home park property made news months ago as residents were evicted. The new owner has now revealed what's coming in its place.

Last Monday’s Petaluma City Council meeting went late into the night, and at least 50 mobile home residents – some wearily holding signs reading “Support Petaluma Mobile Homes” – stayed in anticipation.

Mobile home residents from Youngstown, Little Woods Mobile Villa and Capri Mobile Villa remained in the council chambers to watch city leaders close what they consider to be loopholes in the law allowing mobile home park owners to bleed them dry with nonstop arbitration hearings.

Every time mobile home park owners propose a rent increase above a certain threshold, an arbitration hearing is triggered, costing park residents tens of...

MALTA — A group of residents in Saratoga County’s largest mobile home park, Malta Gardens, has claimed that a part-time code enforcement officer for the town is harassing them by recently issuing numerous code violations at several homes. As they struggle to contest the validity of violations or remedy the issues, they fear they could lose their homes.

In March, park resident Patrick Allen received a letter from the town alleging he was violating state and town codes by having an unregistered camper in his driveway, having certain items on his porch, including plywood he was using to repair a floor, a grill and a garbage bag.

“There was no...

New life is being breathed into the former Blackfoot Mobile Home Park, a choice 17-acre site on Blackfoot Trail between Southland Drive and Heritage Drive S.E.

Purchased by real estate developer Bud Mintoft in 1967, the treed site on an escarpment west of the Bow River was once home to a closely knit neighbourhood of 400 people. Years after Mintoft’s death in 1988, his company, Wentworth Development Inc., acquired 33 acres next door. When the last home on wheels was rolled out of the park in 2022, the whole package was sold to multi-family builder Cedarglen Living. In homage to the original orchestrator of the community, this...

Manufactured homes are sometimes the last option for affordable housing. As private investors buy up parks, some states aim to protect residents from rapid rent increases.

Montana Public Radio’s Shaylee Ragar reports.

Construction of a self-storage facility at Winchester Center is planned to begin this month. The three-story, 934-unit center is being built by Barron Collier Cos. and Metro Commercial at the retail development on Immokalee Road and Orange Tree Boulevard in Naples. The facility, on 2.8 acres, will be operated by StorQuest. It is scheduled to open late next year. The 21-acre Winchester Center, when complete, will have 41,836 square feet of commercial space and a tenant line up that includes anchor Sunshine Ace Hardware, with a 22,650-square-foot store, as well as a two-story NCH Immediate Care and Physician Offices. The other tenants to...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Attorney General Kris Mayes is taking action against Redwood Mobile Park in Tucson due to ongoing issues with electricity and air conditioning outages.

These outages are occurring during life-threatening heat conditions, posing a severe risk to residents, including vulnerable groups like infants, children and seniors.

"Mobile homes heat up incredibly fast. These conditions aren’t just dangerous – they’re deadly," said Mayes.

She emphasized the necessity of electricity and air conditioning as life-saving measures, particularly in the current extreme temperatures.

The Attorney General's Office issued a...

In March of 2024, when the Lakeway Estates manufactured home community in Bellingham was purchased by HavenPark Communities, a subsidiary of a private equity firm, a resident told The Bellingham Herald that nobody there planned to complain until there was “good reason.” Now, more than a year after the $41 million sale, the senior residents say many of them are being priced out of the park due to hefty increases in lot rent. “We live here. This is our home. They don’t care that we are people, that we live in this park. To them, we are an investment,” said one resident. The Herald spoke with five longtime residents of the park who requested...

A hearing to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Pines Trailer Park homeowners association against the park owner was pushed to late August.

Originally set for July 28, the hearing was rescheduled for Aug. 29 before 12th Judicial Circuit Judge Edward Nichols via Zoom.

According to court documents, the park owners’ attorney, Pines Park Investors LLC, Shawn Arbeiter, requested the delay. A reason was not stated for the scheduling change.

The homeowners association at the trailer park, 103 Church Ave., filed a lawsuit March 28 against PPI, a corporation managed by developer Shawn Kaleta. The HOA alleges a series of violations related to an...

Homeowners in Florida are being quietly priced out of their communities. People often own their manufactured homes but rent the lot underneath them.

Census data shows lot rent in the state has nearly doubled over the last decade. That means manufactured housing parks, which are considered the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing, are now growing unaffordable.

Under Florida law, management can pass along fees, like utility charges and property tax increases, as long as they are considered “reasonable” and are mentioned in a park’s original governing document, which is called a .

WUSF spoke with various homeowners who...

LAKE PLACID — Residents of the Cascade Acres mobile home park are attempting a last-ditch effort to keep a private equity firm from buying the park land that their 124 manufactured homes sit on, over concerns that a new owner could lead to lot rent increases.

The Olympia City Council is exploring ways to preserve manufactured home communities by addressing land use concerns not covered by the state of Washington's rent stabilization law.  

At a study session held on Tuesday, July 29, Olympia Housing Program Senior Specialist Christa Lenssen discussed the state's newly enacted House Bill 1217, which introduces measures for rent stability and tenant rights, as well as protections for manufactured home communities.  

Under the legislation, landlords are restricted from increasing rent by more than 5% annually and are prohibited from raising rents during the first 12 months of tenancy.  

While the...

An Associated Press investigation found widespread failures to meet safe drinking water standards in U.S. mobile home parks, where residents often rely on poorly regulated or untested water systems.

In short:

• Nearly 70% of mobile home parks with their own water systems violated safe drinking water rules over the past five years, far more than municipal utilities.
• Aging infrastructure, unregulated water sources, and weak oversight leave many residents exposed to contaminants like arsenic and bacteria.
• Some states, including Utah and Colorado, have begun...

The current owners of Mountain Valley Mobile Home Park and Aspen-Basalt Mobile Home Park on Monday, July 28, accepted an offer from the residents of those parks to purchase the communities for $42 million. 

The two communities have been working towards converting their respective mobile home parks into “Resident-Owned Communities,” or ROCs. An ROC functions similarly to a mortgage on a standard house; however, instead of one person paying their mortgage monthly, the entire community pays it down as rent. 

The communities have been working with Thistle, a Boulder-based non-profit that manages various affordable housing schemes in Boulder,...

Rising lot rents are pricing Floridians out of manufactured home parks, according to a new report from WUSF.

Why it matters: Manufactured home parks are "a crucial source of unsubsidized affordable housing for vulnerable individuals," the report says.

• Residents are often older, retired adults on fixed incomes.

How it works: Manufactured homes, also known as mobile homes, are generally much cheaper than single-family homes built on site.

• Residents typically buy their own homes and pay rent for the land underneath.

State of play: From 2015 to 2023, Florida's median lot rent has almost doubled, per WUSF, citing Census Bureau... Read More

The City of Mitchell netted just $2 in a recent auction of trailers located in its city-owned mobile home park near Hitchcock Park. Held on Wednesday, the auction offered three trailers and one building, but drew only two bidders. Two trailers sold for $1 each, while the remaining trailer and house received no bids and are slated for demolition.

The city of Mitchell made just $2 at an auction for trailers in its city-owned mobile home park near Hitchcock Park. The Wednesday auction offered three trailers and one building, with only two bidders participating. Two trailers sold for $1 each, while one trailer and a house received no bids and...

RANTOUL — In 2018, Todd Modglin and his father, Kevin, bought a small parcel hosting about a dozen trailer homes in west Rantoul through their property management company, KTRM LLC.

Now, seven years later, the pair — who are also the CFO and president at Mid Illinois Concrete and Excavation Inc., respectively — are looking to redevelop the 0.68-acre site.

Todd Modglin told The News-Gazette he and his father feel the trailers have begun to “age out a little bit and were going to need some updating.”

“We own other rental properties in Rantoul,” he said. “And the last couple of years, we’ve gotten a lot of requests for higher-end rentals,...