Mobile Home Park News Briefing

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...

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...

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. 

And...

Princeton – Mobile home communities, also known as trailer parks, are facts of life around West Virginia and throughout the nation, but a report compiled by two nonprofit organizations with help from Mercer County residents argues that out-of-state owners are making these parks less than desirable places to live.

In February 2023, Mountain State Justice, a statewide nonprofit legal services and advocacy organization, announced they filed a lawsuit in Mercer County Circuit Court on behalf of the residents in five manufactured housing communities against an out-of-state private equity firm and its affiliates.

The lawsuit’s...

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...

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...

The eerily quiet lull on Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park’s 112th Avenue is routinely interrupted by the clang of a demolition crane. In just four months, half of the mobile home park in Sweetwater, Florida, has been razed to the ground. An old hibiscus bush nurtured by one family for decades is gone. A handful of mobile homes sparsely populates the once-packed community, giving way to a towering new development and leaving ample space for its inevitable replicas across what used to be affordable housing.

Despite an ongoing class-action lawsuit, tenants have chosen to evacuate their own homes before a May 19 deadline in order to secure a...

MARSHALL, MINN. – Residents of the Broadmoor Valley mobile home park voiced fear, frustration and pleas for help at a city-convened public hearing on the park’s impending closure.

The hearing, a required step under Minnesota law, saw the Marshall City Council appoint a neutral third party to navigate the complex process of closing the park, which has been embroiled in litigation in recent years.

“Marshall, please help us,” park resident Anais Rodriguez said at the hearing on Wednesday night. “We are part of Marshall, we are residents from Marshall, and I want to stay here to continue growing my kids and see them graduate from...

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...

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...

In addition to rising costs and threats of displacement, U.S. mobile home residents face “serious health hazards,” according to a new report from Human Impact Partners and advocacy group Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction).

As Hope Davis explains in an article in Next City, the report used tenant interviews, information from mobile home operator Homes for America, and public records to understand how poor infrastructure and deteriorating conditions put manufactured home residents at risk from extreme heat and cold, poor water quality, and unhealthy air. “In the report, researchers documented water quality violations at five Homes of...

This story is the first in a series on manufactured housing and solutions to help mitigate threats facing mobile home residents, from private equity ownership to climate change.

Four years ago, Valeria Steele’s West Virginia mobile home park was purchased by Homes of America, a subsidiary of well-known “vulture fund” Alden Global Capital. The private equity giant has become infamous for buying distressed newspapers, cutting staff, offloading assets and loading them with debt.

“They don’t make any attempt to sell them,” Steele says. “They don’t make any attempt to repair them. And that’s the norm among a lot of their properties.”

Sure...

After decades of deteriorating conditions and hundreds of police calls, a troubled Aztec mobile home park is set for transformation. New owners plan to address crime, blight, and infrastructure issues that have long frustrated city officials.

The San Juan Mobile Home Park, located at 305 N. Light Plant Road in Aztec, was recently purchased by Capital Communities, which operates 70 mobile home parks across the U.S. Built in 1960 with over 85 spaces, the park will now operate under new regulations, and cleanup efforts are already underway.

The new owners have informed residents of their policies, which include the removal of non-running...

Bradenton Beach city commissioners voted unanimously May 1 to direct building official Bill Palmer to determine whether compliance measures are necessary for a parking lot at 205 First St. adjacent to the Pines Trailer Park.

The vote followed a public hearing where representatives for the trailer park owner, Pines Park Investors LLC, residents of the park and their respective attorneys and others shared concerns and context regarding the parking lot.

PPI, managed by developer Shawn Kaleta, purchased the parking lot and the trailer park in 2023 from the Jackson Partnership LLLP for $16.2 million. Under the previous ownership, Pines Trailer...

The owners of the mobile home park sold the land to a developer, which has been a major sore for its residents.

After a lawsuit that spanned almost five years, Pocasset Mobile Home Park residents have asserted their right of first refusal to purchase the park. The Barnstable Superior Court ruled in favor of the homeowners on March 27, allowing them to retain control of the land beneath their homes.

Robin Zorich and her husband have lived seven years at a manufactured home in Woodland Park East, a 55-year-old mobile home park north of Vancouver, Washington. Although she owns the house, she rents the land it sits on.

The couple downsized from their house in Vancouver, where they had lived for 20 years, before moving into the mobile home, believing that it was easier to get around in a single-level home.

Their rent has gone up every year, rising from $610 when they purchased the home in 2017 to $1,300 per month. These days, they’re cutting costs to make the payments.

Yet a reprieve came Sunday when the state House and Senate passed the...

Allan Ayotte, 69, lives in a mobile home park in Norridgewock. He retired at 67 years old due to health issues with no pension or retirement funds; so when he saw a mobile home for sale within his budget, he bought it. He lived there for three months before the owners sold the park, and Ayotte says he received notice that rent would be increasing 93%.

Ayotte told his story in testimony for a bill that would prevent just such dramatic rent increases in  parks like his, LD 1723, “An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Manufactured Housing Communities to Prevent Excessive Rent and Fees Increases.”

“Less than probably an hour after they posted...

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...

Drive around the Coachella Valley and you’ll quickly notice: mobile home parks are everywhere—about 200 of them, to be exact. What many don’t realize is these parks represent the largest source of unsubsidized low-income housing in Riverside County.

Nationwide, an estimated 21 million Americans live in manufactured homes, and that number is growing. As home prices soar and interest rates fluctuate, mobile and modular homes are being viewed in a new light—not only as affordable housing, but as smart investment opportunities.

“There’s a new wave of entrepreneurs buying and flipping mobile homes,” said Fred Roggin during a recent segment....

Legislation aimed at protecting mobile home park residents from displacement in the wake of natural disasters cleared a key hurdle Tuesday, passing out of the California Senate Housing Committee with broad support.

Senate Bill 749, authored by Senator Ben Allen (D-Pacific Palisades), seeks to expand affordable housing protections by making it more difficult for landowners to convert mobile home parks to market-rate uses following disasters like wildfires, floods or earthquakes. The bill is a direct response to the devastating January wildfires that tore through Pacific Palisades, Altadena and parts of Malibu, displacing thousands and...

Location: On Colter Street, just slightly west of 27th Avenue at 2728 W. Colter St. in Phoenix.

Description: A seven-story student residence hall is being built where the Periwinkle mobile home park once sat. The razed dirt lot will eventually make way for 189 apartment-style suites that house 733 beds in a building that's nearly 284,000 square feet and 75 feet tall. The building is owned by Grand Canyon University. It is located in a residence hall area called “The Rivers” that also includes four nearby dorms, GCU spokesperson Bob Romantic said.

History: The site was the subject of a months-long intense and emotional controversy at...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Michigan State Rep. Emily E. Dievendorf has posted the following statement to Facebook regarding the eviction of residents at the Kristana Mobile Home Park in Dewitt Township:

Thank you to all who have reached out about the unacceptable conditions at Kristana Mobile Home Park. I want you to know that I hear you and I share your outrage.

Since my office was first made aware of the situation on March 31, 2025, we have been actively engaged in supporting the residents of Kristana MHP. I have been in direct contact with the residents, visited the park myself to witness the conditions firsthand, and worked alongside...

GORHAM, Maine (WGME) -- Friendly Village in Gorham is one of the many mobile home parks across the state that have recently gone up for sale.

A group of residents in Friendly Village are hoping to buy the park themselves.

"Hopefully a representative and senators are going to see this and understand how important this is for all of us that we can control our own destiny in our homes," Dawn Beaulieu, a resident of Friendly Village for 30 years, said.

On Saturday, park residents, neighbors, and a few state lawmakers gathered in a community meeting to discuss their next steps for taking control.

About 24 families living at the Lazy Day Mobile Home Trailer Park were served eviction notices on April 14.

According to the eviction letter shared with the Hungry Horse News, people must have their trailers removed by Oct. 18, though the owners of the park have been given financial incentives to move out sooner.

If trailer owners move or sign over the title to the trailer to the park owners by July 18, they would receive a $10,000 payment. If they do the same by Sept. 18, they’d receive $5,000.

If they wait until the Oct. 18 deadline, they will get nothing. The October date is a few days after the six-month notice required by...