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MSN: Over 50 Houston families evicted from mobile home park — some were charged rent after leaving, advocates say

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Taking up residence in a mobile home park can be an economical means of putting a roof over one's head.

But more than 50 families at County Road Mobile Home Park in Houston, Texas, were displaced after the land they were living on was sold, according to KHOU 11 News. Residents had until April 8 to move out, and some were forced to spend thousands of dollars to relocate.

Marta De La Garza, who lived in the park with her family for five years, says she had to shell out $9,000 — $3,000 for transportation and $6,000 to set up utilities — to move to a new location.

"We had to pay for the people who moved the mobile home. We had to pay a...

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Hartford Courant: CT mobile home protections bill stalls over rent caps sticking point

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The Connecticut House of Representatives on Wednesday spent hours debating a bill that would strengthen protections for mobile and manufactured home owners, many of whom are seniors, but decided to stop the discussion in the face of Republican opposition.

The sticking point — even in a limited capacity — was a proposal to create a rent cap.

Mobile home owners typically own their homes, but not the land they sit on. Residents pay rent to the park owner on the land. House Bill 5428 would limit annual rent increases to 2% of rent plus any increases in the annual consumer price index and provide a process for park owners to appeal that limit...

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Republicans opposed it as well, saying it interfered with landlords’ rights and the free market.

Even though the Republicans are right on all counts, Connecticut has a Democrat trifecta of Governor, House and Senate so the Republican voting block in the state has no power at all. But quietly, in the background, many of the Democrats also agree with the Republicans on this. Rent control is housing suicide and has been well proven in all those states that have enacted it. That’s really why they don’t enact rent control.

Cascade PBS: WA mobile homeowners, advocates react to new rent stabilization law

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Brenda Valdez feels like she can finally exhale.

The mother of two and mobile home owner from Elma in Grays Harbor County said she no longer has to hold her breath waiting for the next lot rent hike to come knocking at her door after Washington state adopted an unprecedented 5% annual limit on rent increases for manufactured home owners last month. 

Valdez said her lot rent — what she pays for the ground under her mobile home — had nearly doubled in the past decade, and she expected to face another $100-a-month increase in July.

“$100 – it’s like worth a week of groceries for my kids, it’s half of my energy bill, it’s a pair...

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After years of fighting for mobile home tenants’ rights, Deb Wilson is celebrating new rent stabilization requirements, signed into law this month, that will cap rent increases for mobile homeowners at 5% per year.

Sure, Deb and her neighbors will celebrate their big win for a while. And then they will get a notice that the park is being closed for redevelopment. None of these idiots apparently understand that by approving the 5% cap on mobile home park lot rent – and 10% on apartments – they signed a death warrant for Washington state parks. Who wouldn’t tear their park down and build apartments – or literally any other use – instead? The answer, nobody. Goodbye mobile home parks, hello new apartment units.

Realtor.com: What’s It Really Like To Live in a Mobile Home, According To Owners and Agents

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Mobile homes are the new starter homes. Between sky-high interest rates, high home prices, and limited availability of real estate overall, becoming a homeowner is something many Americans feel they can't afford.

While renting is a good option for some, others are finding creative ways to live in their desired locations, despite the prohibitive price tag - like mobile homes.

Mobile homes are no longer just the go-to preference of thrifty retirees. Many people from across the age and life-experience spectrum are looking to manufactured homes and accessory dwelling units (ADU) as a new mode of affordable homeownership.

But if you’ve been...

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Mobile homes are the new starter homes. Between sky-high interest rates, high home prices, and limited availability of real estate overall, becoming a homeowner is something many Americans feel they can't afford. While renting is a good option for some, others are finding creative ways to live in their desired locations, despite the prohibitive price tag - like mobile homes. Mobile homes are no longer just the go-to preference of thrifty retirees. Many people from across the age and life-experience spectrum are looking to manufactured homes and accessory dwelling units (ADU) as a new mode of affordable homeownership.

A rare, favorable review of our product. But that’s two weeks in a row so I like the trend.

Mitchell Republic: Renters of city-owned trailer park seek new homes as rental contract terminations loom

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MITCHELL – Good intentions have to be backed up with good actions. At least, that's how some tenants at a local trailer park feel about a plan that removes their homes to make way for a city-led housing development.

In early April, the city announced the intent to purchase the 35-unit mobile home park near Hitchcock Park, with the goal of developing the lots for housing and to remove the eyesore along East First Avenue. This meant existing renters would have to relocate and Mitchell Mayor Jordan Hanson made statements about not making tenants move out too quickly. Plans have also been finalized to donate two lots to Habitat for...

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And another park bites the dust.

The Aspen Times: Basalt residents seek support to purchase mobile home parks

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Basalt Town Council discussed a potential financial contribution to help purchase two, downvalley mobile home parks to help residents retain their housing. 

The Aspen Basalt Mobile Home Park in Basalt and Carbondale’s Mountain Valley Mobile Home Park gave notice to their tenants in late March they were starting the process of either selling the parks to a private buyer or giving residents the opportunity to buy it themselves. 

Residents on Tuesday filled council chambers to discuss purchasing the parks, with the goal of garnering support from local municipalities, as well as Colorado and national nonprofits.

Elizabeth Rivas, an Aspen...

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If it agrees, Basalt could join other local governments to raise $20 million to assist with the purchase of both mobile home parks. Basalt Town Manager Ryan Mahoney and Basalt Town Council members discussed a contribution of $250,000 toward the purchase. The $20 million goal, however, might be difficult for local municipalities to reach on their own.  “It’s looking at this time that the $20 million ask is probably a little tall for the governments, if I had to read the tea leaves,” said Mahoney. 

What’s so frustrating about these articles – which dominate the landscape right now – is that their logic is missing one fundamental reality: the lot rent will be the same or more under resident ownership as it will be under corporate ownership. Here’s why:

  • The cost of every single line item on the P&L is the same whether owned by a non-profit or a for-profit company (water, sewer, electric, insurance, property tax, etc.).
  • The cost of the debt service (mortgage interest and principal payment) is the same whether the buyer is a non-profit or a for-profit corporation.
  • Therefore, the lot rent will be the same regardless of who buys the park – the non-profit has zero financial advantage for the tenants.

But there’s even more to the story. As anyone who has researched the end result of tenant-owned communities knows, the quality of life and the collection of rent go down when the amateur tenants run the property. They can’t evict their friends and they refuse to make cap-x repairs. The managers show favoritism to their friends and zero capability to find new debt when the loans come due. Essentially, a total disaster with a time-delay fuse.

So let’s cut the crap about how tenants buying the properties yields lower rents ad better quality of life. That’s a total lie. Instead, this is really just about virtue signaling. And, in this case, the city manager that offers $250,000 towards a $20 million target knows it’s just a way to get a headline and nothing more. The end.

Maine Republic: Amid growing interest from out-of-state investors, Maine mobile homeowners ask for more protections

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Dawn Beaulieu lives in a double wide on a corner lot in Friendly Village Mobile Home Park in Gorham.

It's the perfect size for her and terrier mix, Bella.

She has lived in this home for more than two decades and in Friendly Village for close to 30 years. The mortgage, on top of the monthly lot rent of just more than $600, is a lot with her single income, but she makes it work.

"I've paid 22.5 years of a 25-year mortgage. I have two and a half years left," Beaulieu said. "And then I own my home. I am scared to lose it before I get to that point."

She also worries about many of her neighbors in this community of 302 lots, with 263 occupied...

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Fallacy #1: A $600 lot rent is too high in Brunswick, Maine. In fact, it’s far too low. The evidence: the average single family home in Brunswick costs $443,000 and the average apartment is $1,893 per month.

Marieke Giasson, who lives at Bay Bridge Estates in Brunswick, said monthly lot rent typically went up about $15 or $20 a year. She paid $410 a month in 2021. Then, Legacy Communities, an Arizona company that owns about 70 manufactured home parks around the country, bought her park. In the last three years, Giasson said rent has increased by 46%. She now pays about $600 a month.

The fact is that $600 per month lot rent in Brunswick is ridiculously, indefensibly, impossibly low.

Fallacy #2:  The tenants buying a mobile home park for $22 million will yield lower rents. The truth is that the lot rent will be the same in order to cover all operating costs and a $22 million mortgage and down-payment loan.

On Tuesday, the Friendly Village residents submitted their own bid to purchase the park for more than the community's initial asking price of $22 million.

How can the U.S. media be this math and logic challenged?

Tri City Record: San Juan Mobile Home Park residents voice grievances

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Residents of San Juan Mobile Home Park are bracing for a steep rent hike that threatens to upend their lives. With rates set to nearly double by July, longtime tenants say they face a daunting choice: find a way to pay or lose the homes they’ve had for years.

They are speaking out against the new owners’ demands, calling for fair treatment and a chance to stay in the community they’ve built. Some residents gathered across the street from the park to air their concerns.

Kelly Garcia, who has a daughter, age 11, and cares for her grandson, 2, said the rent increase will present an unmanageable burden. She said she was notified the rent will...

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According to Aztec police records, there have been more than 632 calls for service to the San Juan Mobile Home Park in the past two years.

That quote pretty much tells the whole story. This mobile home park was a complete disaster and now a new owner is attempting to turn it around, bring it back to life, and provide a quality living experience for the residents. The new owners are complete heroes for taking on this dump. Anyone with common sense realizes this. However, the writer of this story tries so hard to instead spin the story that the new owners are inhumane tyrants who demand that people clean up their act and pay a fair rent. I’m sorry, but don’t tell me the status quo was great when the police were called literally every day of the week for two straight years!

Iowa City Press-Citizen: A JoCo supervisors' letter asks local mobile home parks to halt rent hikes, address concerns

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Johnson County leaders are standing by their residents, asking the owner of several manufactured home communities to refrain from raising rent in order to address a litany of safety concerns.

The letter, signed by Johnson County Board of Supervisors Chair Jon Green, calls on Havenpark Communities' "owners and management" to impose a two-year pause on lot rent, "while you work with residents to address these health and safety concerns."

"We feel as though this will help to repair some of the harm and hardships that these residents have had toendure during your acquisition of their neighborhood and the severe decline in services," Green...

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"The Board of Supervisors is constrained from placing any rent-related conditions upon park ownership," Green told the Press-Citizen. "We do, however, request they refrain from further lot rent increases and welcome any dialogue with them."

What a ridiculous concept – a county in a state that has no rent control asking a property owner to voluntarily impose rent control on themselves. Why stop there? Maybe the county should ask the restaurants, grocery stores, car dealerships – every business – to stop raising prices? I’m sure the county will also agree to halt all property tax increases, right? Oops, that’s the one sector that’s off-limits, right? “Rules for thee but not for me” in action.

WTOL: 'Unacceptable' conditions prompt city of Toledo to declare mobile home park unfit for human habitation

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TOLEDO, Ohio — The city of Toledo has declared a neglected south Toledo mobile home park "unfit for human habitation," and told its three remaining households they need to seek alternative housing. 

The city said in a bulletin Friday that Riverside Mobile Home Park, located just off City Park Avenue near the Anthony Wayne Trail, was unsanitary and dangerous, and described living conditions as "inhumane." It said the cause of these problems was "years of owner neglect."

Additionally, the Department of Building and Code Compliance identified structural decay, a lack of water and sewer service, and hazardous electrical conditions. These...

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And another park bites the dust.

Portland Press Herald: More money could be headed to help Maine mobile home residents

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Lawmakers supported a bill to add $3 million to a fund to help residents purchase their mobile home parks. But its fate hinges on whether it makes it into the budget.

Friendly Village mobile home park in Gorham is one of several in Maine being eyed by out-of-state investors. A bill advancing in the Legislature would help residents make offers to buy their parks instead.

 

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Lawmakers supported a bill to add $3 million to a fund to help residents purchase their mobile home parks. But its fate hinges on whether it makes it into the budget.

Maybe Maine legislators are math challenged, but $3 million in a 70% LTV lending world will only buy $10 million of parks. That might handle one or two parks. Hardly the landmark gesture that has any meaningful consequences. But, of course, it was only about virtue signaling anyway, right?

Marin Independent Journal: Marin Voice: Novato’s manufactured home community on path to resident ownership

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The residents of Marin Valley Mobile Country Club, an affordable, vibrant over-55 manufactured home community in Novato, have been taking the necessary steps toward achieving the long-awaited goal of becoming resident-owned.

The crucial effort, led by MVMCC’s Park Acquisition Corporation, a nonprofit California mutual benefit corporation, of acquiring it from its current owner, the City of Novato, is important for the thriving community, which offers one of few affordable housing opportunities in Marin. The goal is to become a resident-owned cooperative providing affordability, security and independence now and into the future.

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They do realize that under “tenant-ownership” their rents will go up a ton, the quality of life will plummet, and they’ll probably default on the loan when it comes due, right? I bet nobody bothered to mention those realities. Just ask those four parks in Canon City, Colorado that are resident-owned and now in foreclosure.

The Seattle Times: WA renters, landlords prepare for new cap on rent hikes

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A monumental change hit Washington’s rental market this month, one in the works for years: caps on rent hikes.

But what it means for cash-strapped residents, and whether it will curb a market where housing costs have soared in recent decades, remains a live question.

Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a bill into law earlier this month capping annual rent hikes at 10% per year for many apartments and 5% at mobile home parks. That means that for a tenant in a $1,500 apartment covered by the new law, their rent could increase to no more than $1,650 in a single year.

Supporters say the new caps offer a commonsense way to give tenants more...

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Washington needs to now prepare for all mobile home parks to be torn down to build apartments. How in the world can you have a 5% cap on mobile home park rents and 10% on apartments? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. So here’s a simple message to all park owners in Washington: 1) go get the permits to build apartments and 2) tear down your park and build as many apartments as you can on the land. Apparently, that’s exactly what the state wants you to do.

But first, let’s see how this holds up in court as it will surely be litigated.

Press Herald: Maine lawmakers consider bill to stop mobile home park sales for 3 months

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A Wyoming investment firm wants to purchase Friendly Village mobile home park in Gorham as part of a four-state, eight-park deal for $87.5 million. Lawmakers are exploring a bill that would create a three-month moratorium on the sale of mobile home parks

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Week after week, there’s nothing but idiocy coming out of Maine. The good news is that it has among the fewest mobile home parks in the U.S.

NBC MIAMI: ‘I'm staying': Deadline arrives for Li'l Abner Mobile Home Park residents to move out

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Hundreds of people living at a Sweetwater mobile home park are now forced to find somewhere else to live as the official deadline for their move out arrived Monday. Still, some say they're not going anywhere.

Li'l Abner Mobile Home Park is where more than 900 residents first received eviction notices last November, learning they'd have until May 19 to move out.

The owners of the park have already started demolitions of vacated mobile homes, but some residents have stayed till the end.

On Monday, the community looked as if a tornado had torn through. Some houses stood, and others were already knocked down.

In some spots, the ground was...

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And another park bites the dust.

Golden Transcript: Golden-area groups collaborate to design first-of-its-kind modular home

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Lot No. 7 of the Golden Hills mobile home park is empty right now, but a year from now, it will be the site of a unique modular home.

And, longer-term, locals hope Lot No. 7 will be the beginning of a larger trend that could help hundreds of others across Colorado and beyond.

Golden Hills residents have been working with the Neighborhood Rehab Project, Colorado School of Mines students and staff, and a local housing development company to design a first-of-its-kind modular home that’s affordable, sustainable and scalable.

The 12 Mines students — now Class of 2025 graduates — designed it during the academic year as part of the Capstone...

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This article leaves me very confused. These homes have no HUD seals, yet the city is letting them go into a mobile home park (in which HUD seals are typically required). Did anyone bother to research this fact? Is the city waiving this requirement? Clearly, this is nicer than a regular HUD-code mobile home because it doesn’t suffer from all the bureaucratic requirements to get that HUD seal. But if you remove that requirement, mobile home manufacturers are doomed – the victim to the simple fact that unregulated housing is more attractive.

Lookout Santa Cruz: RTC stands firm on June 30 deadline for mobile home parks encroaching on Coastal Rail Trail

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Santa Cruz County’s transit agency is sticking to a June 30 deadline for property owners of two Live Oak mobile home parks to move homes and other structures off land designated for the Coastal Rail Trail. But county officials say they have struck an agreement with one of the parks’ residents to defer any legal action against residents until they can study the issue further.

Last year, residents of Castle Mobile Home Estates and Blue and Gold Star Mobile Home Park received notices from the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission. The notices said the agency had completed a boundary survey and found that some of the homes...

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And another park bites the dust … times two.

M Live: A $2M grant was supposed to revive a mobile home park. Then residents got 4 days to get out.

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DEWITT TOWNSHIP, MI - A piece of printer paper stuck to Tina Riggs’ front door gave an official notice: she had four days to move out.

Riggs was shocked by the letter given to residents of Kristana Manufactured Home Park on Friday, March 28. It said due to “declining occupancy rates and the inability to maintain the community’s infrastructure,” the park would close on Tuesday, April 1.

Then on April 2, the water was shut off.

Riggs, 62, is now one of a handful of residents still living at Kristana – an aging manufactured housing community in DeWitt Township about five miles north of Lansing.

 

“I’m staying here as long as I can,”...

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And another park bites the dust.

Mass Live: Ludlow mobile home park tenants call for owner to halt tree removal

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LUDLOW — Workers continued to fell trees at the West Street Village Mobile Home Community in Ludlow Thursday, the smell of freshly cut wood filling the air, mixing with the sound of a woodchipper.

Several dozen trees that once provided shade and privacy for residents at the mobile home park were reduced to stumps. Some residents say they believe the tree work was being done because they are legally challenging an increase of rent at the park.

“These were mostly all strong and healthy trees,” said resident Ethan Field, the president of the park’s housing association.

 

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Several dozen trees that once provided shade and privacy for residents at the mobile home park were reduced to stumps. Some residents say they believe the tree work was being done because they are legally challenging an increase of rent at the park.

Who would be dumb enough to think that a park owner would spend tens of thousands of dollars because they’re mad at the residents for fighting a rent increase? Only in Massachusetts!

Post Independent: Glenwood Springs commits $1.5 million to help residents purchase mobile home park

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Glenwood Springs City Council voted Thursday to move forward with a $1.5 million contribution from the city’s 2C workforce housing fund to help residents of Mountain Mobile Home Park form a cooperative and buy the land beneath their homes.

The 40-unit park, located along U.S. Highway 6 adjacent to Bighorn Toyota, was recently listed for $4.5 million. More than half of its residents earn less than 20% of the area median income, according to city Housing Development Manager Kevin Reyes.

If purchased by a private investor, Reyes warned, the park could face significant rent hikes or redevelopment. Currently, there are no zoning protections or...

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Read how flaky the financial construction of this deal is – and this is just the DOWN PAYMENT:

The $1.5 million city contribution will be split into two installments. The first, up to $750,000, would be disbursed at or near closing. The second would be available no earlier than September, when additional 2C revenue is expected to become available. Thistle confirmed that the cooperative would take out a short-term bridge loan to cover the full closing cost, repaid once the city’s second tranche is issued.

If they can’t even come up with the cash to close, can you imagine how complicated and screwed up the note would be on this deal? Who’s going to personally guarantee the debt when the tenants have zero skin in the game and even the down payment is in the form of an IOU? I’d put the odds of the tenants pulling this off at the usual 1%.

And then there’s this little addition hidden in the bottom of the story:

The project’s financial pro forma, included in council packets, estimates an average lot rent increase of $135 per month for residents with the full city contribution factored in …

So the rent is going up $135 per month on day one of the tenants buying the park? Did anyone bother to tell the tenants that? A corporate buyer would not go up nearly that much in rent.

As usual, this non-profit virtue signaling simply leaves the tenants with a more than uncertain future – with basically higher lot rent, poorer management, and probably a loan default within 5 years (just like those 4 parks already in foreclosure in Canon City, Colorado with ROC, featured in the last few weeks).

The Colorado Sun: Colorado’s largest community built from shipping containers is providing a housing road map

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BUENA VISTA – Jerry Champlin had a plan to help ease the housing crunch in Buena Vista. Why not build a dozen tiny homes around a central courtyard on a residential lot a block from downtown and rent them out for $1,000 a month? 

He bought a small home on a big lot in 2019 and floated his plan. Six years later, he’s about to start renting. But the plan, pushed and shoved by local rules and soaring costs, has changed. 

He’s now stacked 21 shipping containers around the courtyard in a community he’s called BV Basecamp. He built 16 units in 17 of those steel boxes and the rest are community spaces for office work, storage and studios. 

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Years ago the late Tony Hsieh, the founder of Zappos, had his assistant give me a tour of Airstream Village, the mobile home & RV park that he lived in on the bad side of Las Vegas (the guy had $800 million from the sale of Zappos but was eccentric to say the least). As we were walking to Tony’s property, we passed by an abandoned collection of metal container homes in a field. I asked the assistant “what’s that” and they said “Tony experimented building a residential community out of storage containers once, but in the end he decided they just don’t work and he abandoned it – they get too hot and nobody liked them”.

I trust Tony’s instincts on that one.

KNOP News 2: North Platte City Council endorses mobile home park

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NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) - The need for quality, affordable housing persists across Lincoln County.

Projects like the Mulligan Meadows Housing Subdivision and a number of apartment complexes have made a dent in the housing crisis. Tuesday, the North Platte City Council endorsed another project that would drastically aid in addressing the housing crunch as well.

Nebraska-based Chief Industries has purchased a 43-acre, undeveloped lot along East Philip Street and South Bicentennial Avenue in Eastern North Platte.

“We have an agreement to obtain the 6.13 acres north of the Twin Platte NRD. So, right now we’re going through some design...

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A rare, positive article on mobile home parks. Great!

Marshall Independent: Broadmoor residents speak out on planned park closure

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MARSHALL — Residents of the Broadmoor Valley mobile home park said it’s a place they’ve called home — and they were calling for help to keep it from being closed down.

“We are part of Marshall. We are residents from Marshall, and I want to stay here,” resident Anais Rodriguez said during the hearing.

“It would be really hard for me to start all over,” another resident said in a written statement read at the hearing.

More than 60 people, including Broadmoor Valley residents and Marshall area community members, attended a public hearing held by the Marshall City Council on Wednesday night. The city was required to hold the hearing as part...

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And another park bites the dust…

Miami News Times: Diego Waisman's Sunset Colonies Documents Miami's Endangered Mobile Home Communities

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In late 2024, the residents of Sweetwater's Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park were told the park would close to make way for an affordable housing complex. Some community members took $14,000 buyouts, but others have stayed and filed a class action lawsuit against the park's owner, CREI Holdings, in an effort to stop the evictions. The jury's still out on what will happen to the remaining residents of the community, but the phenomenon of underprivileged locals losing their homes to a rapidly changing Miami is becoming increasingly common.

The mobile home communities that once proliferated throughout South Florida's urban landscape have one after...

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And an itemization of many parks that have bitten the dust …

Oregon Live: Oregon bill would prohibit bans on mobile homes

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A bill making its way through the Oregon Legislature would prevent new planned communities from banning manufactured and modular homes.

House Bill 3144 would not impact existing communities, only new communities moving forward. Manufactured units would still be subject to the same design requirements of other homes in a community.

“While successfully addressing the crisis will take many types of creative solutions, frankly, this bill is an easy one,” bill sponsor Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, told the Senate Committee on Housing and Development on Monday afternoon.

Marsh is the chair of the House Committee on Housing and Homelessness. She...

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Another positive industry article (although I don’t agree with the concept that you should be able to place a mobile home on a vacant lot next to a McMansion – which would clearly ruin property values).