Mobile Home Park News Briefing

Jay voters approved a mobile home park rent moratorium Tuesday night by a 449–213 vote, handing a major victory to residents who have spent months organizing for stability and protection from displacement.

The measure immediately halts excessive lot rent increases, offering residents relief while the town works toward a longer-term solution, such as an ordinance adopted by other towns across the state.

“It had to be done – it was a necessity for our livelihoods,” said Tanya Dwyer, a resident of Hidden Circle Park. “It’s been a long journey, but we saw success at the end of the tunnel. We fought for what we thought was right. Now people...

Yellowstone County Treasurer Hank Peters was sitting at his desk on the morning of April 20, preparing one of the first batches of 2026 property tax bills to be mailed out, when he noticed something wasn’t quite right.

The property tax bills for mobile home owners that Peters was reviewing showed collections far higher than the previous year.

“You see the number, and it’s like, ‘OK, wow, that’s a lot more than I was expecting,’” Peters said in a phone interview Monday.

What Peters observed is happening in other Montana counties, too: Many mobile home owners — who receive their property tax bills months earlier than the rest of residential...

A bill to control rent increases in manufactured home parks in New York passed in both houses.

If signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul, the legislation would require mobile home park owners to provide a written justification and documentation for rent increases over 3%.

Building on 2019 legislation — the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act, which capped rent increases at 3% — this new legislation would close a loophole that allowed park owners to raise rents above 3% without providing any justification for the increases.

In August 2025, the Times Herald-Record reported on rent increases over 3% at a Newburgh manufactured home park...

There are 56,000 Pennsylvania households in manufactured homes and thousands have been subjected to significant increases to their monthly lot rent in recent years.

In his budget address last month, Governor Shapiro called on the legislature to pass legislation limiting lot rent increases for manufactured homeowners.

Governor Shapiro’s visit to Douglass Village highlighted his budget proposal and his Housing Action Plan to meet Pennsylvania’s housing needs and make housing more affordable.

Residents of an Anchorage mobile home park are pushing back against a plan to redevelop the property where their homes have sat, in some cases, for decades.

The developer plans to clear the area and build townhouses, and he's offering the residents $6,000 each to vacate the property so the project can move forward.

But the residents -- who own their mobile homes and rent the space upon which they sit -- say that's a fraction of what it would cost to move their homes, and many aren't sure where they'd go anyway.

Anchorage Daily News reporter Michelle Theriault Boots has followed the unfolding tension at South Park Estates.

Theriault Boots...

Tenants at two mobile home parks in Bozeman are set to begin a rent strike Friday after their outgoing landlord notified residents of $97 monthly rent hikes in late March. 

Occupants of over 60% of the units at King Arthur and Mountain Meadows Parks voted unanimously earlier this week to withhold their rent payments for the month of May. This move amounts to nearly $53,000, according to Bozeman Tenants United, the group organizing the effort. 

A rent strike is a collective action in which tenants withhold rent payments to pressure landlords into negotiating terms. The King Arthur and Mountain Meadows chapters of Bozeman Tenants United...

Manufactured homes became known as mobile homes because there was a time when they were truly mobile, with owners moving them around the country in search of work or better places to live.

To ensure their mobility, Congress passed legislation in 1974 requiring every manufactured home to be built on a permanent chassis — a heavy-duty metal frame that could be attached to wheels.

There is now a measure to eliminate the steel chassis requirement for manufactured homes, part of a sweeping federal housing bill moving through Congress aimed at increasing homeownership and easing the shortage of low-income housing nationwide.

Housing experts...

Toll Brothers, one of the largest luxury homebuilders in the country, has a contract to purchase the 27 acres of Chatham Estates for about $30 million, according to Town of Cary records. For years, many residents paid about $400 a month to live at Chatham Estates. Soon, the same land is expected to hold 427 housing units with prices that could exceed $1 million.

The displacement at Chatham Estates exposes a legal gap in North Carolina: thousands of residents own their homes, but not the land where they live.

Mobile homes make up more than 11% of the state’s housing, nearly double the national average. Yet when parks close, state law...

Santa Ana, CA – On Tuesday, April 21, residents of Coach Royal mobile home park demanded Kingsley Management Corporation get out of their park. Community Service Organization Orange County (CSO OC) joined them to demand the city council intervene against years of harassment, unjust evictions, home theft, and intimidation by the corporation. The abuse resulted in the suicide of resident Maria Pedraza, whose home was in the process of being taken after years of sacrificing to purchase it.

Karla Alvarado, one of the residents whose home was stolen, stated: “The city of Santa Ana has already met with 45 residents who can testify to this. 45...

“It's a little more time. Yeah, it's a little more time,” he said.

LePochat has lived at Evergreen for more than two decades, calling it home while living in his 1960 Airstream for 35 years. But like many others, he’s now facing rising costs as he searches for a new place to go.

“I'm going from $500 a month to $735 a month, and on Social Security, it's just a matter of time,” he said, referencing his tight finances. “You know, if the truck breaks down. It's going to stay broke down.”

Residents say the uncertainty has been building for months. The park sold in September, followed by letters in the fall that made no mention of any major...

Yankee Traveler is a mobile home community for older Americans aged 55+ which is largely aimed at snowbirds seeking a Florida lifestyle. The park, however, instituted a new rule that homes built in or prior to 1984 can't be resold.

That applies to the Coles' home, which was built in 1984. According to management, the couple has two options: put the home up for rent, or move it out of the RV park to sell it.

The owners of Yankee Traveler stated in a document given to the couple that "homes that are older and not well maintained bring down the quality of our neighborhood," and "often create maintenance problems."

Another resident, Jim...

The residents of a mobile home park in Missoula brought their concerns to City Council on Monday night, seeking help in face of repeated rent hikes and what they describe as poor management by the property owner.

The issues facing North Star Court have become increasingly common in recent years as large real estate investors take ownership of mobile home parks, often followed by unchecked lease increases. The results threaten to drive out the most vulnerable park residents who often can't afford any other housing.

“We feel abandoned and neglected,” said North Star tenant member CJ Taylor. “This reflects a broader problem. We can't...

Awilda Suriel sat on the ground, her knees drawn and her head in her hands as she watched her neighbors file onto the patch of grass before her. They shifted uneasily, their arms crossed and eyes downcast. While most were silent, the few who traded muted pleasantries hushed as the homeowners of the Silver Court Trailer Park commenced their meeting.

Bringing them together was the fact that they’ll soon be driven apart.

Suriel, 43, purchased her trailer two years ago for $45,000, then sank what remained of her savings, $20,000, into making it a home — new siding, a carport, interior repairs — for her three kids.

She had saved for...

Since around the time Alaska became a state, a mobile home park has occupied a corner of Midtown Anchorage near the intersection of Arctic and Benson boulevards.

From the outside, South Park Estates, as the park is grandly named, is looking rough these days.

The owner of the park has announced plans to eventually raze the land and redevelop the site into townhouses. Some of the original trailers have already been demolished, and squatters have moved into others that are boarded up. Abandoned cars dot the properties, as well as piles of accumulated trash and debris.

But there’s another side of the park, in neatly tended mobile homes...

CLINTON, Tenn. (WATE) — Yet another mom-and-pop mobile home park has been purchased by corporate owners who immediately raised the rent. For many of the residents, their monthly rent will more than double, taking a big chunk out of their fixed incomes.

What’s happening across Tennessee, and in other states, is that corporations and private equity firms are buying “mom-and-pop” mobile home parks. Renters affected by the recent ownership change in Anderson County are worried.

Nearly 30 families live in the newly named Smoky Palms North mobile home park in Clinton. The former long-time owner of the park sold the property less than a month...

This story is part of How We Get By, a KQED series exploring how people are coping with rising costs in the Bay Area and California. Find the full series here.

When Clara Faria read her rent statement, her heart stopped. Her monthly payment would more than triple, rising from $297 per month to $995. She had four days to make the payment or be charged a $50 late fee.

She sank into the brown leather chair next to her formica-coated kitchen table, where she’d opened her mail for decades. She had heard neighbors were getting rent increases, but said she hadn’t received a notice herself. She had hoped she would be spared, but the reality was...

The Camarillo City Council will consider adopting the city’s first permanent rent stabilization ordinance for the city's three mobile home parks April 22.

The proposed ordinance aims to maintain affordable housing for residents while allowing owners to earn a reasonable profit.

If adopted, the regulations would prevent the gap between rent at mobile home parks in the city and rent at other Ventura County mobile home parks from growing wider.

The council voted 3-2 last month to reject a previous version of the ordinance to allow for further revision.

“I think the draft ordinance as it’s currently presented goes overboard in its protection...

ALBANY, NY — Assembly Member Paula Elaine Kay announced that she has signed on and is advocating for legislation that requires manufactured home park owners to provide a written justification for any rent increase exceeding three percent of the current rent. Additionally, property owners must make supporting documentation available to residents upon request, ensuring that increases are clearly explained and tied to legitimate costs. This bill passed the Senate this year and is currently in the Assembly Standing Committee on Housing.

“I’m a proud co-sponsor of bill A340A, a measure aimed at strengthening protections for residents of...

One of Pacifica's most unassuming ocean neighbors just sold for a decidedly not-so-modest price. Saunders Property Company has snapped up Viewpointe at Seaside, a 93-unit manufactured-housing community on the city's coast, for $39.5 million. The ocean-adjacent property at 1300 Palmetto Avenue features a mix of one- and two-bedroom homes on leased pads. The deal shifts the park from former owner The Carlyle Group to an institutional investor that has been quietly racking up mobile-home acquisitions across California, a type of transaction that local watchers say can have outsized impacts on lot rents and long-term affordability in the Bay...

When: Warwick Township Board of Supervisors meeting, April 15.

What happened: Warwick Township supervisors gave unanimous approval to a conditional use application from United Zion Retirement Community to build a medical residential campus adjacent to the existing 157-unit retirement community. The township attached 15 conditions.

Details: United Zion is proposing to construct 78 independent living duplex and townhouse units, with an associated community building and a maintenance building on property it owns at 70 Sherry Drive, Lititz. That land is located at Plateau Village, a mobile home community of 70 mostly older residents. Those...

Lisa Helphinstine never thought she'd face homelessness, but then again she never imagined tech companies would be interested in buying a mobile home park in rural Kentucky.

Helphinstine is just one of 28 residents of Meadowland Village Mobile Home Park in Mason County who received notice that the property is under contract for sale to an unnamed “Fortune 500” company, which has yet to be identified, planning to build a 2,000-acre data center.

“They just up and said you have 90 days to move,” Helphinstine, 50, tells PEOPLE. “I have no idea what I'm going to do. I bought the mobile home so I could have somewhere to live. Now, I'm going to...

Residents of a Cary mobile home park were in downtown Raleigh on Tuesday demanding support and compensation from a potential developer as they're being forced to leave their homes.

"Where we live now, it doesn’t look like much to many people, but for us it’s home," said Abigael Dawah. Some of the144 families who live at Chatham Estates pay $400 a month to rent their lots.

They got a letter in January from the current owner, who is selling the land, citing his age and health.

The potential new owner is expected to redevelop the area with more than 300 multi-family units and nearly 100 townhouses.

"We’re asking the Town of Cary for a...

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Crews started to demolish three buildings at the old Jones West Ford site on Kietzke Lane in Reno Thursday afternoon to make way for Nevada's first soccer-only stadium.

Seven months after announcing plans to bring a USL soccer team to the Biggest Little City, Reno Pro Soccer officials celebrated the milestone as crews took the soccer-themed wrecking ball to the aging buildings.

Reno Pro Soccer is planning to build a 6,000-seat soccer-only stadium on the site. Officials also plan a $350 million entertainment district known as 'The Boulevard Reno' on the site just south of the stadium.

The 28-acre project...

On what was the coldest day of April so far, residents of two Missoula-area mobile home parks sat down for lease negotiations with their Texas-based landlord — a first in Montana history, according to the Missoula Tenants Union.

Representatives from Oak Wood Ventures visited Missoula last week to meet with residents of Travois Village in Missoula and Harvey’s mobile home park in Bonner, which the company bought in 2023. After rent increases and other issues, residents of the parks formed two tenants unions and demanded Oak Wood meet with them to negotiate a new lease. 

On Thursday, that meeting actually happened — a fact that tenant...

A New Jersey-based company that owns mobile home parks and prefabricated residential communities in a dozen states will be Westmoreland County’s largest taxpayer in 2026.

New totals from the county’s tax assessment office reveal United Mobile Homes Properties Inc. has taken the top spot among local taxpayers, replacing the owners of Westmoreland Mall in Hempfield who for decades topped the list of property owners with the most valued assets.

According to the most recent figures, the company’s holdings in the county are assessed at more than $12.4 million, which translates to a market value of more than $140 million.

The company owns more...