Mobile Home Park News Briefing

DELMONT, Pa. — Channel 11 received several letters from people who live in a 55-and-over community known as Cloverleaf Estates East in Delmont. Most neighbors are on a fixed income there and told Channel 11 they got a notification that their land rent is increasing by 24%. Now, they are faced with having to move.

“When we moved here, we are told that the increase is minimal each year. Minimal is 4 or 8%…it’s not 24%,” said Joan Stuchul, who lives in Cloverleaf East. “We are senior citizens! We can’t go out and get a job and make up $150, or $170 a month. We can’t do that. We are stuck.”

Cloverleaf Estates sent a letter to residents saying...

AUGUSTA –– Joe Hupperich had a busy day in Augusta Monday. 

He was canvassing residents on behalf of the Maine Labor Climate Council, looking to get the rest of the 2,000 signatures he needs for a citizens’ initiative this fall. He wants to see a new ordinance on the books regulating rents for local mobile home park residents.

Augusta is just one of the latest communities to jump on the bandwagon of enacting local ordinances to help keep rents from going too high, too fast.

“It’s the kind of thing we need to organize around, whether it’s union members, whether it’s community members, or whether it’s society as a whole, we can’t let people...

BRADENTON BEACH – During the Thursday, Aug. 6, city commission meeting, the Pines Trailer Park ownership group, Pines Park Investors LLC, is expected to reveal its intended future use of the waterfront mobile home park property. 

The public meeting will be held at city hall and the meeting will start at 6 p.m. The Pines presentation is listed on the agenda as, “Pines Park Investors LLC – Bridge Street pier district: conceptual architectural presentation and project overview.” The agenda packet contains no plans or renderings for the intended use of the property. Public comment will be allowed during the meeting. 

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Aberdeen officials have condemned Green Acres mobile home park with demolition to begin in the days to come. That's according...

A California-based mobile home park investment firm facing lawsuits and government scrutiny in multiple states settled a zoning dispute with the city of Temple by selling a mobile home park to the city for $1.432 million.

The taxpayer-funded purchase will displace residents.

The dispute began after Santa Fe Trails MHP LLC sought permits to place homes on vacant lots within the Santa Fe Trails mobile home park.

City officials argued the additions would unlawfully expand a legal nonconforming use in a light industrial zone. The owner disagreed, sued the city and several officials, and later reached a mediated agreement that included...

A drive through the Westmoor Mobile Home Park in southwest Oklahoma City paints a picture of a quaint community. The grass is cut to a neat level, the trees bloom and the mobile homes are decorated and maintained.

At the park’s center is a playground, a pool, a basketball court and a field with two adjacent soccer goals.

Dustin Rollins, a trailer park resident, said that when he was searching for a property, Westmoor’s amenities and cleanliness were reasons he and his family moved in.

But Rollins said he later learned that was only the surface.

The Westmoor Mobile Home Park is a serial evictor and is starting to push rent-to-own deals on...

Residents of Butler Town Road are expected to turn out in large numbers Tuesday as the planning board considers approval of a request for a mobile home park.

Tuesday’s meeting is set for 6:30 at the county office building on Webster Street in Whiteville. The meeting has been delayed at least once.

The proposed Boggy Branch mobile home park would have lots for 13 homes on a property that is currently used for agriculture.

Amber Leonard lives near where the proposed park would be located, and she said neighbors have major concerns about everything from wastewater to drainage. Much of the area already floods during heavy rains, she said, and...

Residents of the Silver Court Trailer Park in Miami are hoping a promised meeting with the property owner will provide more time to save their homes before a redevelopment project moves forward.

A handful of residents gathered at Miami City Hall on Thursday seeking assistance as they face a Sept. 30 deadline to vacate the property. 

Trailer owners received notices in March that there is a new plan for the property and everybody has to leave. 

Silver Court homeowners, many of whom have lived in the Little Havana community for decades, say they are determined to remain in their homes and continue fighting against the park’s closure in...

ROYERSFORD, Pa. ― Moving boxes were still stacked throughout the tidy, black-shuttered home that Dennis and Susan Johnson had bought in Montgomery County when a landscaper alerted them that their lot rent was about to go through the roof. 

The couple had spent three years scouring the housing market for the right combination of affordability and proximity to their children and grandchildren. After looking at an array of condominiums and single-family homes, they concluded the best option was to buy a Mount Airy manufactured home in a 55-plus community called Village of Willow Run.

Though the house is theirs, the dirt beneath it is not,...

A fight over the possible closure of a Petaluma mobile home park is becoming more than a local land-use dispute. It could test how much power California cities have to protect residents when one of their most affordable housing options is at risk.

As reported by The Press Democrat, the proposed closure has sparked wider debate over the laws that control when parks can be shut down or converted to other uses.

Mobile home parks occupy an unusual place in the housing market. In many cases, residents own their homes but rent the land underneath them, leaving them especially vulnerable if a property owner decides to change how...

For more than two decades, Julia Hughes said she has watched her lot rent at Idlewild Acres mobile home park on Henderson Mill Road creep up from $110 to the $500 she pays today. But when a new notice from management announced the rate would hit $700 for “a piece of dirt,” she joined neighbors in organizing a petition and protest against what they call predatory pricing and “corporation greed.”

Idlewild Acres — one of more than 50 mobile home parks across the region that tenants say are owned or managed by Manufactured Housing Properties, Inc. (MHP), Valleo Residential, and Gvest Capital — is facing steep lot rent hikes this summer,...

MOUNT VERNON — Regional Planning Commission members have approved early plans for mobile homes at the former Pacemakers Dragway and zoning changes for five townships.

Owner Larry Nelson presented a rough sketch to the land use committee last week for a mobile home development at the dragstrip.

Land Use chair Steve Bratton said Nelson will develop the property in five phases. He will start at the front and work his way around the existing main street.

“The land use committee did not have any issues with the sketch plan,” Bratton said. “We recommended to the commission to approve the sketch plan.

“I think Larry wants to be pretty...

Residents of a decades-old mobile home park in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood have cleared a significant legal hurdle in their effort to stop impending evictions after 11th Circuit Court Judge Milton Hirsch denied a request by the property's owner to dismiss their case.

The ruling allows homeowners at Silver Court Mobile Home Park to continue challenging the planned closure of the community and seek to remain on the property beyond the Sept. 30 deadline outlined in eviction notices.

For residents like Joseph Madera, president of the Silver Court Homeowners Association, the decision brought a sense of relief.

"I was screaming. I was...

After years of fires, utility shutoffs, dangerous living conditions and complaints from former residents, demolition is finally underway at the long-troubled Lazy Wheels Mobile Home Park in Ceres.

Heavy equipment began tearing down mobile homes this week, but even as the cleanup moves forward, city leaders say questions remain about the property owner and what comes next for the site.

"It's been tragedy," Ceres Mayor Javier Lopez said. "We've had deaths here, we've had fires here, and I think somebody needs to be held accountable."

CBS News Sacramento first reported on conditions at the park last year after firefighters discovered a body...

To the editor: It is unfortunate that so few mobile home parks are actually resident-owned (“Mobile homes, an overlooked refuge of affordability, are disappearing in L.A. Residents fight to stay,” July 17). In California, less than 10% of our mobile home parks are resident-owned.

What would happen if the city of Bell, Calif., for example, would sell a mobile home park to residents? Would this be a net gain in revenue for the city? No. But the money invested preparing the residents for ownership, drafting bylaws and taking care of any deferred maintenance necessary to give the new resident owners a fighting chance would be a start-up...

A Florida private equity player has stepped into one of Dublin's touchiest development debates, buying the Ponderosa Mobile Home Estates, a 55-plus community tucked inside a long-planned 127-acre mixed-use site near Avery and Rings roads. The sale drops an institutional owner right into the middle of an ongoing fight over how the surrounding land should be built out and what that means for the people already living there. Neighbors and city commissioners have already aired worries about traffic, sewer capacity and the long-term fate of the park as plans for Avery Crossing move forward.

According to Columbus Business First,...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) — Residents at Brookview Mobile Home Park staged a show of solidarity Tuesday afternoon, gathering to address mounting financial pressures that have strained their ability to afford their homes in what was supposed to be an affordable housing community.

The scene reflected a deeper divide: while park management hosted a pizza party for residents on one side of the street, residents organized their own gathering directly across the way.

Stephanie Mikkelson, a resident at the park, expressed frustration over the lack of meaningful dialogue with upper management.

Mobile home park residents of Pine Tree Estates in Standish packed the Standish Town Council meeting on Tuesday to ask for a rent stabilization ordinance.

Residents told the council that their lot rents have been raised by hundreds of dollars since RHP Properties, the largest private owner of manufactured home communities in the United States, bought the park in 2019. Many of the residents are older than 55, on fixed incomes and struggling to make ends meet as the cost of living in Maine rises.

“(Our neighbors) are scared that after spending decades building their lives here in Standish, that they may no longer be able to afford to stay,”...

BILLINGS — Residents at Golden Meadows Mobile Home Park say a steep increase in monthly lot rent could make it difficult for many of their neighbors, particularly seniors and people living on fixed incomes, to remain in the community.

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Residents recently received letters at the end of June notifying them that monthly lot rent will increase on Aug. 1 from $530 to $705, a $175 monthly increase that amounts to about 33% and an additional $2,100 per year. The increase applies to the park's roughly 520 lots, with some newer renters seeing larger increases.

Petaluma has served as a proving ground for tightened mobile home park regulations and is poised to do so again as the owners of Little Woods Mobile Villa seek to push forward with shuttering the 78-space park off Lakeville Highway.

The city has been a ground zero of sorts as a group of park owners have launched a flurry of lawsuits over new rules passed to limit rent increases on mobile home spaces and bolster resident protections as part of a wave of tighter regulations regionally and at the state level.

In June 2024, Little Woods owners notified the city of their intent to close, setting off a lengthy, complex and not often used...

Two hundred households in an American Canyon mobile home park face whopping rent increases in September -- in many cases close to $300 a month, a boost of more than 40% for most.

As a result, some residents say they may have no choice but to move.

Built in the 1960s, Napa Olympia Mobilodge is a 201-unit mobile park on American Canyon Road near the Vallejo border. In a lot of ways, it's a time capsule: kids bike down the middle of streets with no traffic signs, and '70s Fleetwood double-wides line up in neat, colorful rows. It's also highly diverse, with people speaking Tagalog, Spanish, Vietnamese and Arabic, among other languages.

The management of a mobile home park near Woodstock city limits says it is communicating with residents as a developer is considering buying the property to build a new neighborhood there.

Melissa Schroeder sits in her living room with her neighbors wondering how much longer she can afford to remain in her manufactured home, and if help will ever come.

Like many in the Red Maple Acres community — which has more than 200 lots on the border of Lower Macungie and Upper Macungie townships near Wescosville — Schroeder has had to deal with steep prices on the land she rents from the owner, GSP Management Co.

While she owns her house, she rents the lot from GSP, which recently bought the 18-acre property from ARX Communities for $30.5 million. There are also utilities and property taxes. Simply picking up and moving somewhere less...

A new owner at a Missoula County mobile home park in Montana is drawing complaints from residents who say steep lot-rent increases and little communication are making it harder for families to remain there.

As concerns pile up over costs, maintenance, and safety, tenants are asking county officials to help push for answers.

At Target Range Mobile Home Park, residents recently organized a tenants union as lot rents climbed after Admiral Communities became the new owner, according to the Missoula Current.

Park resident Lisa Coon said her costs show how dramatic the change has been: What was once $475 in lot rent is now a...

Sanger mobile home residents, specifically from the Vista Del Monte Mobile Home Park, returned to the Sanger City Council to ask for rent control regulations amid escalating financial pressures and fears of steep space-rent increases.