Mobile Home Park News Briefing

The Santa Paula rent review commission voted to delay a decision to mid-January on a nearly 50% rent increase for residents of a mobile home park after a three-hour hearing.

The commission, appointed by the city council, voted 2-0 to continue its meeting to approve a 47% per space increase, or $218.17 more a month, at 400 Mobile Estates, located at 400 Craig Drive. 

Residents of three Auburn mobile home parks hope the City Council will put a pause on rent increases following steep hikes over the past year.

Ja-Lynne Mobile Home Park, Washington Street Mobile Home Park and Stevens Mill Mobile Home Park have experienced high increases in lot rents recently, as much as $110 for some residents last fall, according to Dan Neumann of the Maine Labor Climate Council.

On a Sunday evening in December, Angel Rogelio Diaz Franco sprawled on a dingy twin mattress in the van he now calls home. Looking around, he squinted. The sole source of light inside came from a small flashlight, which cast a dull-white glow over a bedside tray loaded with pill bottles and a floor fan that circulated the van’s hot, stale air.

Tan carpeting ran up the walls and windows to keep out the sun and any inquisitive eyes. Up near the cab, a toilet seat rested atop a five-gallon orange bucket.

Franco, 58, has been living in the van since October, when he was evicted from his home of 19 years in Sweetwater’s Li’l Abner Mobile...

A Cary couple is among more than 100 families being forced to leave their neighborhood after plans to sell the property were announced. 

On Monday, residents in the Chatham Estates mobile home park community were told they have six months to vacate, leaving many uncertain about what lies ahead.

The mobile home community has been tucked away off Maynard Road for decades. It has been a home to Steve and Ann Curlee since 1988.

"It's a lot of unanswered questions,” Ann Curlee said.

The thought of leaving is something she said is too much to bear.

“Not knowing where we'll be going and whether we're going to fit into it or not,” she...

It was quiet at the Leesburg Mobile Home Park as evening fell in late November.

DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) — A proposed development that would surround an existing mobile home park in Dublin drew renewed scrutiny from residents and mixed reactions from city planners this month, as developers presented revisions aimed at reducing density and expanding green space.

Columbus-based Casto is seeking approval for Avery Crossing, a development spanning more than 120 acres at the southwest corner of Avery and Rings roads. The project would incorporate the 24-acre Ponderosa Mobile Home Estates, a senior community with 107 homes that Casto purchased in 2022.

Jaime Prieto and Migdal Ibarra have moved multiple times over the last several years, from the Peninsula to Manteca, Newark and back to San Mateo County.

After living with their daughter and four grandchildren for a little while, they decided it was time to move back to get their own space and be closer to their jobs.

WATERVILLE — The City Council is making progress on a proposed Mobile Home Park Rent Stabilization Ordinance.

The move follows a unanimous moratorium imposed in August to address rising mobile home park rents.

City Solicitor Bill Lee presented options to the council in early December after the issue was first raised by Maine state Rep. Cassie Julia, who also serves on the Waterville Planning Board.

Julia sponsored L.D. 1765, “An Act to Ensure Affordability and Stability in Residential Housing and in Manufactured Housing Communities.”

The bill originally set out to limit rent increases to once every 12 months and to cap fee increases, but...

In the middle of Chatham Estates Mobile Home Park, a little girl in a pink Bluey shirt spins herself around atop a concrete slab. She twirls with her blue backpack in her outstretched hand — bunny ears on the top and a mermaid stitched on the side.

The two red brick stairs just a few feet from the girl used to lead to the floor of a pavilion with tin roofing, where Chatham Estates residents gathered for monthly meetings.

To the right of the pavilion, there used to be a playground with swings and slides. The school bus stopped right at the intersection, so the kids came to play while the mothers watched. Both the pavilion and playground...

This site was approved for more than 900 apartments.

The mobile home owner and operator, FG Communities, has added to its Winston-Salem portfolio with the $4.4 million purchase of two properties, according to a Forsyth County Register of Deeds filing.

Charlotte-based Wood Partners on Dec. 15 received rezoning approval for 19.5 acres along Prosperity Church Road, between Butner Trail Lane and Nada Park Circle. It has plans for a development with 395 multifamily and townhome units and 25,000 square feet of retail and restaurant use.

Wood Partners received approval to build 395 residential units and retail space on nearly 20 acres along Prosperity Church Road, displacing current mobile home park residents.

Less than half an hour drive away from the shiny skyscrapers of downtown Miami, what is left of the Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park bleeds out in the sun like an open, festering wound.

The once-lively streets are empty, and the weeds are taking over. Row after row of colorful trailers stare at the casual passerby through their dark, empty windows, the odd open door swinging back and forth in the wind like an eerie wave of welcome. 

Each one of them has a big red cross on the side, accompanied by a sign reading: “You have been evicted from these premises.”

What happens when the last rung of the housing ladder is sawed off? In Miami-Dade County, the disappearance of mobile home parks amounts to more than the erasure of an affordable housing option it is the dismantling of whole communities, leaving thousands scrambling for shelter in one of the nation’s most rent-burdened regions.

Less than a year ago, Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park in Sweetwater was home to nearly 900 families, many of them immigrants, retirees, and low-income workers. Today, its streets are silent, its trailers marked with red crosses and eviction notices. The land’s owner, Consolidated Real Estate Investments (CREI), is...

CASPER — When Lynette Grant woke up in late October to a notice detailing a 56% jump in rent taped to the door of her mobile home, it didn’t take long to start questioning why the increase was so drastic — and how it was even allowed.

Grant worried what the surge from $400 to $625 beginning in January 2026 would mean for her neighbors in Westside Mobile Home Court in Mills on fixed incomes and brought her concerns to a city of Mills work session in November, where she was informed the city had little power to help the community.

In the aftermath of the lot rent increase notice, Grant’s research pointed her to a glaring issue for...

By next June, 60 households in north Charlotte will be forced out to make way for new development. Forest Park Mobile Home Park off Prosperity Church Road — a community with a large immigrant population — is where many have grown up and established a community. But by June 21, families who’ve planted decades of roots and invested thousands into their homes will have to leave it all behind to make way for the vision of developer Wood Partners. That vision includes transforming the land into a complex of apartments, townhomes and some commercial — emulating new developments popping up across the Charlotte metro area. Since this summer,...

A storm-damaged, repeatedly flooded mobile home park near Derby Lane will become a multifamily housing complex, despite environmental concerns.

Plans to permanently evacuate the Twin City Mobile Home Park began after Hurricane Idalia in 2023. Hurricanes Helene and Milton exacerbate ongoing issues; however, a handful of households have remained throughout the recently launched demolition process.

Pinellas County Commissioners unanimously approved a zoning change Tuesday at 10636 Gandy Boulevard to facilitate the property’s redevelopment. The 8.94-acre parcel was home to Twin City for 71 years.

Former resident Erin Roth urged commissioners...

TRENTON — Legislation sponsored by Senator John Burzichelli and Senator Paul Moriarty that would give homeowners in mobile home parks the opportunity to keep their homes by purchasing the parks before they are sold or converted for other uses, was approved by the Senate today. 

The bill, S-3913, known as the “Manufactured Home Park Protection Act,” would give resident homeowners of mobile and manufactured homes the right of first refusal if the owners of their home parks anticipate selling or changing the use of the land. 

“This will give residents of mobile home parks the opportunity to remain in their homes and preserve their...

Six homeowners at a mobile home park in Aztec, New Mexico, allege in a new lawsuit that a Tennessee-based company violated state laws when it abruptly imposed new park rules, fees and lease terms on tenants and then used those illegal measures to threaten eviction.

The New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, a nonprofit legal aid organization, filed the lawsuit late last week on the tenants’ behalf against Capital Communities PM LLC, which owns mobile home parks across the country, including the San Juan Mobile Home Park in Aztec. 

According to the lawsuit, Capital Communities bought the 85-lot property in April and then a month later...

Residents of Fairfax County’s manufactured home communities pressed county leaders yesterday (Tuesday) to do more to protect the properties from redevelopment and those who live there from displacement.

“We don’t want to be moved out of the county — we’d like to stay in our homes,” said Denia Moya, a resident of the Harmony Place Mobile Home Park (8018 Richmond Highway) in Hybla Valley.

That Route 1 complex of about 70 homes is one of seven manufactured-home properties totaling 1,769 units across the county. Typically, residents own the homes but rent the land, leaving them vulnerable to redevelopment and increasing...

Hundreds of Bell residents protested against the plan to close two mobile home parks during the city council meeting on Wednesday. 

The city of Bell owns both of the mobile home parks, which house about 300 families. The plan aimed to redevelop the land into new affordable housing, seniors homes, retail, restaurants and entertainment spaces. 

Residents expressed their concern that they'll lose their homes and possibly be priced out of their neighborhoods.

"A lot of folks just found out about this decision," protester Clarisa Perez said. "A lot of folks are scared to lose their homes, especially during this holiday season."

In a statement,...

This year, after more than seven years of planning and construction, the first Ponderosa Mobile Home Park resident to get a home through a partnership with the City of Boulder and Habitat for Humanity moved into her new net-zero triplex.

Across the street, a similarly sized two-bedroom house is selling for about three-quarters of a million dollars. But the Ponderosa resident, who wished to remain anonymous, paid less than $200,000 for her home. 

“I’m very fortunate, I realize,” she said. “To be living in Boulder in an inexpensive home is pretty amazing.” 

The San Jose Housing and Community Development Commission is recommending not to raise rents for residents living in the city’s 58 mobile home parks.

A majority of commissioners on Thursday didn’t support a proposed 10% increase to space rents once a mobile home is sold. The city Housing Department proposed the increase as a way to provide more revenue for capital improvements as it updates its decades-old mobile home rent policy. Commissioners voted 9-4 to accept only changes to the policy that conform with Assembly Bill 2782, which ended long-term leases from being exempt from excessive rent hikes.

Under the existing policy, property...