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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.
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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 percent for most.
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…including a limit of 10 potted plants per resident…
OK, higher lot rent is one thing, but when you threaten to reduce the number of potted plants, them there’s fighting words!
Look, I know that something like 40% of Americans now identify as communist. But I guarantee you that if you got a copy of their receipts on everything they spend in a month, the increase in lot rent in the mobile home park is the least of their worries. Research shows that healthcare, childcare, and transportation all take a bigger bite out of their paycheck than housing and the new price of filling up their cars per month, since oil spiked, is more than this park’s lot rent increases every time they go to the pump.
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[Video] Orange County highlights past efforts to shut down troubled mobile home park
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And another park bites the dust.
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Maria Franco has lived in the Park Royale Mobile Home Community for 25 years, in the Van Nuys neighborhood in north Los Angeles. The community has just under 150 rectangular homes, lined up neatly on a large field of mostly asphalt, with fruit trees popping up here and there.
Two years ago, Franco faced a string of bad luck. The 65-year-old lost her long-time job packing orders at a distribution company when it abruptly moved to another county, a commute too far for her to make.
Then her hot water heater clonked out, so she hauled warm water from her stovetop to her bathroom, scooping it over her head for a shower.
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“It’s a public health thing. It’s an equity thing,”
OK, the article lost me when it started talking about “an equity thing”. Basically, the communists have now included air-conditioning in their demands from society. But are they aware that 40% of HUD Section 8 housing has no air-conditioning? Not sure who’s going to pick up that tab.
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SARATOGA — An appeal has temporarily halted the eviction of three residents of the Saratoga Lakeview Mobile Home Park, delaying plans to demolish their homes and redevelop the property.
The latest legal twist extends a yearslong fight over the mobile home park on state Route 9P, a prime Saratoga Lake property that owner Michael Giovanone wants to convert into a boat and RV storage facility.
Giovanone bought the 3.2-acre park in 2021 with plans to expand his adjoining Boat N RV Condos business. Under the purchase agreement, however, he was required to wait five years before changing the property’s use and was expected to pay each homeowner...
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An appeal has temporarily halted the eviction of three residents of the Saratoga Lakeview Mobile Home Park, delaying plans to demolish their homes and redevelop the property.
So they found a liberal nutcase judge (is there any other type these days) to temporarily block the removal of the final three residents from this park. And, yes, their attorney will claim this is the greatest victory since O.J. Simpson. But then, a couple weeks from now, the order will be lifted and, once again … another park bites the dust.
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San Lazaro Mobile Home Park residents have started a donation campaign as they continue their effort to raise money to buy the park in unincorporated Boulder County from a private owner.
San Lazaro Park Properties bought the community, which was built in the 1960s, in 1983 and recently sent a notice of a plan to sell. State law gives residents the first right of refusal to buy the park, allowing them 120 days to organize, raise money and make a competitive offer. Based on the residents’ interpretation, if an outside offer is made, they would also have an additional 120 days to make a counteroffer.
Park owners have said the price residents...
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"It's exciting stuff," Bellos said. "We are well on our way to getting something put together."
That’s kind of like the captain of the Titanic saying, “we are excited by this challenge of the iceberg”. There’s no way they’re going to raise $27.5 million in cash to buy this park. Absolute idiocy. Yet the media is pandering to them and saying, “you can do it”. A total waste of time and energy.
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A manufactured home community in Albany is now owned by the people who live there. In June the residents of Albany Acres bought the property from former owner Patrick Houghton of Ranger Properties LLC.
To buy the property, residents formed a cooperative and will now run the community as a not-for-profit corporation.
“They purchase the land and infrastructure underneath their homes, and they run it as a democratic business in perpetuity afterwards,” Sarah Marchant said.
She is the chief operating officer and senior vice president of the resident-owned communities program at the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, which provided financing...
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Armstrong said rent, which was $455 under Houghton, will go up to $600 to pay for the improvements…
OK, time out. You’re telling me that the residents – via a non-profit – bought their mobile home park to stop the big, bad landlord from buying it and raising the rent … and then they raised the rent on themselves, day one, up $145 per month? That’s the dumbest story ever. A professional landlord would have only raised it probably $50 a pop for three years to get to that same level. Morons.
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TEMPLE, Texas (KWTX) - Residents of Santa Fe Trails mobile home park in Temple said they were told in February that the city purchased the property, and they would need to either move their trailers or find a new place to live by the end of August.
According to the City of Temple, the property was purchased after the owner offered to sell it, having decided that expanding was not an option. Now residents are being asked to relocate, and some are finding that harder than expected.
Julie Prince-Goodwin, who lives at the park on a fixed income, said she has been unable to find a new home.
“I just don’t know what I’m going to do. I have no...
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SACO –– Saco may soon join other communities in capping rent increases at mobile home parks.
City Council is reviewing a proposal preventing landlords from raising rents more than once a year, and renters must get 90 days' notice.
The ordinance caps increases at either 5% or equal to the most recent Consumer Price Index annual percentage change, plus 1%, whichever is lower. The CPI tracks changes in the prices of goods and services nationwide.
The draft’s introductory language states: “Residents of those parks should expect to be protected from unnecessary, excessive cost increases because they may be put at risk of severe housing...
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“Residents of those parks should expect to be protected from unnecessary, excessive cost increases because they may be put at risk of severe housing insecurity.”
Would you expect anything less than full communism coming out of Maine these days? I wouldn’t. But when it comes to Maine, it’s important to point out the great success of their communist initiatives:
I guess they really need communism because they just can’t cut it on a level playing field…
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BEAUFORT — Tenants at a local mobile home park are scrambling for options after new management announced rent will double starting July 1.
Hilanda Mobile Home Park residents were notified in late May, via notices tucked into their screen doors, that their lot fees would jump on average from $350 to $700 a month.
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Hilanda Mobile Home Park residents were notified in late May, via notices tucked into their screen doors, that their lot fees would jump on average from $350 to $700 a month. According to several tenants, new owners Hilanda MHP offered no explanation for the steep spike.“They did not provide us with any justification for the increase,” said Jovana Armstrong
First of all, here are the housing stats for Beaufort, SC, which is where this park is located:
Median single-family home: $344,300
Average 2-bedroom apartment rent is $1,330
So I think we’re all in agreement that a lot rent of $350 per month is ridiculously low in this market. So what should the lot rent actually be? Based on the old-timer algorithm that lot rent should be ½ of 2-bedroom apartment rent, then the lot rent should be around $700 per month … which is exactly what the new owner is raising the lot rent to.
But here’s the problem. America is based on a free-market system in which businesses set their prices based on their best guess, and consumers respond with their pocketbooks and the price adjusts from there based on supply and demand. The author of this article is trying to sell the viewer on socialism, which is based on the government setting prices.
While we try to hold our rent increases to a maximum of $50 or so, in this case that would take 7 years just to get to market. The rent is simply too low. And I have no doubt that the price the buyer paid necessitates a much higher lot rent to cover the mortgage.
But clearly this article is really geared to try and start a movement for rent control in South Carolina. So here’s the bad news for all you South Carolina socialists out there: South Carolina is NOT trifecta blue. Not even close. In fact, it’s a RED trifecta. So rent control is off the table and, as a result, this article is absolutely irrelevant.
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A drummer beat an empty water jug, and the voices cried out: “Raquel, escucha,” for they were in “la lucha.” So chanted nearly two dozen residents of Little Havana’s Silver Court trailer park and their supporters outside the office of Miami-Dade County Commissioner Raquel Regalado on Wednesday afternoon as they called on their District 7 commissioner for help.
In March, the 200-plus families living in Silver Court learned the park would be closing and that they had six months to vacate. The park’s owner, 1989 Sunny Court LLC — which is owned by California-based real estate firm Marquis Property Company — has said it wants to develop the...
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The putrid smell of human waste has permeated Tatyana Boykin’s trailer home for months, forcing her, her sister, their disabled mother and brother, to spend most of the year living out of their car.
The family has photographs of a disconnected pipe beneath their three-bedroom trailer at Hunter Ridge Mobile Home Park that they say has pumped raw sewage into the crawl space beneath their home and caused water with excrement to back flow into their drains, toilet and bathtub.
That hasn’t stopped the property management team at Hunter Ridge — a massive, eviction-plagued trailer park on Tara Road near Jonesboro — from charging Boykin, the only...
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If you EVER think renting mobile homes might be a good idea, then read this article. People who rent mobile homes are in a league of their own, and I’m not talking the ivy league. Nothing drives a sane park owner crazier than rental park-owned homes.
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A resident-led cooperative formed by the 98 households in Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park — located between Carbondale and Glenwood Springs — went under contract this week to buy the property for $23 million.
Their offer, submitted in early June, was accepted this week by the park’s corporate owner, Maryland-based Horizon Land Management.
“Todavía se me enchina la piel, y muy esperanzada de haber logrado esto,” said Maria Judith Alvarez, a resident of Cavern Springs. “Más de un año [hemos] trabajado en esto, así que me siento muy esperanzada, no solo por nuestras familias, sino por lo que pueda pasar en este valle.”
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Not sure why this is newsworthy, as all park owners have no problem selling to tenants, and the lot rent will rise to the same level whether the tenants buy it or not. The only reason this is in the news is that socialists believe this is some type of huge victory over “capitalism”. It’s not.
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In a partnership with the Whitefish Community Foundation, NeighborWorks Montana is in the process of adding a fourth mobile home park to its roster of resident-owned communities (ROC) in Flathead County, which will preserve 55 households and prevent tenant displacement.
As part of a multimillion-dollar acquisition and preservation effort, the nonprofit organization is purchasing Twin Willows, which was formerly Twin Acres and Willow Glen mobile home parks, in south Kalispell.
Twin Willows is slated to become the fourth community-owned mobile home park in Flathead County, joining the Hideaway Community in Columbia Falls and the Morning...
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“We have to do a lot of creative financing because of interest rates and property prices right now,” NeighborWorks Montana Cooperative Housing Director Danielle Bundrock said. “On average, we’re having to do multi-hundred-dollar rent increases to give the residents the opportunity to purchase, and that can be intimidating.”
That pretty much sums up the problem with the whole “tenant owned” fantasy: 1) the lot rent goes up just as much as if a regular business bought the park and 2) the financing is so sketchy that it mostly falls apart within 5 years or so and the park goes back on the market to be sold to a regular business. So who really benefits from these deals? That’s simple: 1) the facilitators of these deals that gets paid giant fees and 2) the non-profits that get the glory of “beating the evil landlords” for their five minutes of fame – and use that for fundraising.
Do the tenants gain anything? Nope. Nothing at all.
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Effort to cap rent increases
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Kathy Emmendorfer moved into the Harvest View Community in Union Grove for two reasons. The first: it's peaceful.
"I like mowing my own lawn, having my backyard," said Emmendorfer. "I can sit out here every day and just chill until I go to work."
The second reason: the cost.
"The reason we moved here is because we could afford it and still actually have a life," Emmendorfer told Contact 6.
Emmendorfer says she's lived in the manufactured home community for nearly eight years. Lately the rent has gotten less affordable.
"The (ownership is) like, "we've got to raise it to keep up with the...
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Bad news for socialists in Wisconsin: the state is NOT trifecta blue. Not even close. The only thing blue is the governor. As a result, there is zero chance of rent control in Wisconsin. Note that in over 100 years not a single state has EVER enacted rent control that was not trifecta blue. End of story.
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For decades the answer to inexpensive, safe housing for older retired Floridians was found in mobile home communities. Yet with Florida’s growth and an increasing and longer-living senior population, for many, that once sure answer is wrong.
The increase in investor-owned parks, parks purchased by condo developers and frequent natural disasters puts low-income and elderly Floridians who live in mobile home communities at risk of homelessness.
Drucilla M. Neeley, 72, is fortunate to still be able to work as a certified nursing assistant, she said. If not, she’s not sure how she could pay her bills and keep up with the lot rental on her...
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The rising cost of everything in the U.S. is hitting seniors – and everyone – hard. The only difference between every other good and service – from healthcare to food to gasoline to property taxes – is that socialists find it fun to blast only the landlords since they have become the poster child of the war on capitalism. But here’s a sad message for Florida socialists: Florida is NOT trifecta blue. In fact, not a single branch of state government is blue. As a result, there is ZERO chance of rent control. Sorry.
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The private equity company Brookfield is in the process of acquiring Yes Communities, one of the largest owners of manufactured home parks in the U.S., with about 270 parks and 77,000 home sites.
There have been news reports over the last few years, during some of the hottest summers on record, that Yes Communities threatened residents with lease violations and of being forced out of their homes if they didn’t remove window air conditioning units.
When Brookfield owns the parks, will it address the ban on Window A/C Units?
A letter to residents of Countryside Village in South Bend, Indiana, read, “If you have window A/C units you must...
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ROUGHLY 47% OF ALL SECTION 8 APARTMENTS IN AMERICA DON’T HAVE FUNCTIONAL AIR-CONDITIONING. That’s the official number from AI – look it up yourself. Prior to 1950, roughly 100% of all homes had no air-conditioning. We all lived just fine. The homes shown in this article ALL have central A/C units. These YES properties are trying hard to maintain their appearance for the benefit of the entire community. It’s not fair to others to have one trailer with window A/C as it generally looks “trashy” to everyone around them. Using this same logic, why not let everyone do their car repair in their yards and raise chickens for cheaper eggs? These residents need to get their existing central systems fixed – that’s all YES is asking of them.
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This piece is part of our Stories of Belonging series, which highlights people who have stepped up to protect their communities from displacement — of residents, small businesses, and the culture that makes a place home.
It was a late September evening when Hurricane Helene reached the beaches of Florida in 2024. With winds up to 140 miles per hour and dozens of inches of rainfall, the devastating storm caused more than 2,000 landslides across the Appalachian Mountains. North Carolina, where thousands of residents were left without power for days, was especially hard hit.
When the Footprint Project showed up with mobile solar trailers and...
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“What we’ve seen in the past with a mobile home park down the road and another on the other side of the city is that they got sold to a developer. People were literally pushed out of their homes. [Developers] gave [residents] a very small check for them to move out and bulldozed the entire park to put up condos,” Bonilla says. “That’s what we want to prevent.”
I’ve never understood the concept of being opposed to gentrification. Society flourishes when we embrace making things nicer and safer. I doubt if the majority of Americans prefer a lower cost and quality of life: to preserve the status quo when it’s not that good. More socialism in action. When you can build fancy condos on a dumpy trailer park, only an idiot would not appreciate the benefit to the community at large of moving forward. It’s called “progress”.
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VALENTINE, Neb. — A shortage of available housing continues to challenge communities across Nebraska, especially in rural areas where options can be limited.
Statewide, more than 120,000 additional housing units are needed, according to the Nebraska Investment Finance Authority. In smaller towns, that shortage can make it difficult to attract and retain workers, even when jobs are available.
In Valentine, one developer is testing a different approach — one he hopes could serve as a model for other communities.
At a construction site in town, crews are pouring concrete for a new housing development built on land with a long history. The...
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MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WNDU) - The demolition of mobile homes has officially started at Woodfield Crossing in Mishawaka.
It was known as the Oak Grove Mobile Home Park before Habitat for Humanity of St. Joseph County bought it back in 2024.
There will be enough housing for 50 people, and officials say it will all be affordable.
Residents who go through Habitat’s program will pay around $1,100 a month.
“We think that’s something to get excited about. This is a great community to live, work, and play. We’re just helping to make it more affordable,” said Jim Williams the president and CEO for Habitat of Humanity.
Habitat is working with...
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And another park bites the dust – at the hands of Habitat for Humanity, no less.
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The Woodstock City Council will consider a request in August from a developer who is seeking to replace a mobile home park with a 220-home neighborhood.
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With a spate of laws passed during the 2025-2026 legislative session, the state of Maine is breaking new ground when it comes to protecting manufactured housing residents from corporate landlord-related consolidation and resident displacement.
During this past legislative session, lawmakers enacted a series of policies designed to help residents purchase their communities, discourage speculative acquisitions by large investors, and preserve long-term affordability. Together, these reforms represent a comprehensive state response to the growing trend of private equity and institutional investors buying up manufactured housing...
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“the state of Maine is breaking new ground when it comes to protecting manufactured housing residents from corporate landlord-related consolidation and resident displacement.”
Here’s the problem that Maine is going to face with their new socialist agenda: you can’t enact communism when people have the choice of whether to participate or not. All the park owner has to do, in this case, is simply shut the park down and redevelop it into a different use that has no such controls. And they will.
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) - Santa Maria is considering adopting a new ordinance that would provide protections for mobile home parks that are designed as age-restricted communities.
On Wednesday, the Santa Maria Planning Commission will discuss the creation of a Senior Mobile Home Park Overlay District (SMHP).
"What that will do is create really a separate zone for senior mobile home parks," said Chenin Dow, Santa Maria Community Development Director. "It will mean that if an owner wants to convert in the future to an all-ages park, they will need to go through a public hearing process where the public will have the opportunity to weigh...
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"It will mean that if an owner wants to convert in the future to an all-ages park, they will need to go through a public hearing process where the public will have the opportunity to weigh in, as well as the Planning Commission on that rezone."
In the endless quest of socialists to control everything property owners do, this city is thinking they are going to force park owners to keep senior parks with a senior designation even when they have extreme vacancy and could be full if they simply changed over to “all age”. But here’s the problem with this concept. When the park no longer works as “senior” – and the city forces there to be no change to the permit – the park owner WILL SIMPLY CLOSE THE PARK, TEAR IT DOWN AND PUT SOMETHING ELSE ON THE LAND THAT HAS NO SUCH CONTROLS. And then the city will lose all of their affordable housing units, never to return. What a bunch of idiots.
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ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Elizabeth Small guides tape along the top of a moving box. Inside, the 38-year-old packed items from her “junk drawer” as well as “odds and ends.”
Small is 1 of about 35 families preparing to leave their homes at Riverview Mobile Home Park. Weeks of debate over a special use permit for the property ended Monday, when Rockford City Council voted 8-3 for a proposed transformation of the community.
“It’s very, very sad that we all have to leave our homes,” attested Small. “But there’s nothing we can do about it. It is progress. It is how this world works, unfortunately.”
Residents, including Small, say Riverview’s...
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And another park bites the dust.
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A resident of a Southwestern Ontario seasonal trailer park believes he is being evicted without a proper investigation by a municipality after alleging he was the target of harassment by the park’s supervisor.
Article contentWhen Matt Plaine, 42, bought a trailer last May in the municipally owned Port Glasgow Trailer Park – about 70 kilometres southwest of London in the municipality of West Elgin – he along with his son and daughter, both teenagers, were “completely ecstatic” to call the trailer park home May through October, he said.
“(We were) definitely excited for sure,” said Plaine, a renovation company owner. “The kids...
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I know nothing about this case, but I do know about human nature and I’m willing to bet that this tenant is not as innocent as they claim. The media loves to never get the other side of the story.
City Attorney Shannon Chaffin, City Manager Nathan Olson and Councilmember Michael Montelongo expressed concerns that pursuing a rent control ordinance … would result in the eviction of all residents if the new property owners decided to use the land for other purposes if they were displeased with the rent control.
At least the City Attorney is not an idiot.