Mobile Home Park News Briefing

FLORIDA — A new federal housing law could change how manufactured homes are financed and, over time, how some are built.

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, signed into law July 11, raises FHA-insured loan limits for manufactured housing and changes the federal definition of a manufactured home by allowing homes to be built with or without a permanent chassis.

At Jacobsen Homes in Florida, longtime industry veteran Mike Wnek said manufactured housing has changed dramatically since he entered the business in 1978.

“Night and day. Back in ’78, we were building trailers. We were building a new modern manufactured home, but it was still...

Leaders in the manufactured housing industry believe they can be part of the solution to America’s housing problem.

And they believe the recently passed federal housing bill makes a change that will allow them to do just that.

Congress passed the 21st Century Road to Housing Act in June, and the bill became law in July without President Donald Trump’s signature. The bill, sponsored by U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., addresses a variety of housing issues from regulatory reforms to the administration of public housing.

The bill also addresses a long-standing concern in the manufactured housing industry by eliminating the requirement for a...

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — Residents of San Lazaro Mobile Home Park have until Dec. 8 to assemble financing for a competing offer after an unidentified buyer offered $42.5 million for the property.

The full-price offer adds urgency to a resident-led effort to turn San Lazaro into a cooperative. Residents say owning the park would give them more control over lot rents, infrastructure and the future of a community where some families have lived for decades.

San Lazaro has 213 households. The park’s public water system reports serving 844 people.

Most residents own their manufactured homes but pay slightly more than $1,000 each month to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) called on the House Financial Services Committee to hold a hearing on institutional investors’ impact on Manufactured Housing Communities (MHCs) across the country. Congressman Vasquez led a letter to Chairman French Hill (R-AR) and Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) — along with five other Members — urging the Committee to hold a hearing to address reports from MHC residents across the country who have said they have experienced price jacking, utilities neglect, and abuse in these communities after private equity firms purchased their communities.

“Congress recently passed a...

ABettendorf developer is pursuing state and local tax incentives to build a 168-unit apartment complex to replace the Hillside Community mobile home park along State Street. 

MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI — Resources are available for residents affected by the abrupt closure of Mona Lake Mobile Home Park in Muskegon Heights.

Public Health Muskegon County is hosting a resource fair from 2-6 p.m. today, Thursday, Sept. 3, across from the park at 3527 Hoyt Ave.

Local organizations and businesses will be onsite providing information on topics such as housing options, moving services and supplies, school enrollment, legal assistance, senior services, referrals and more.

Participating organizations include United Way Lakeshore, Trinity Health, The Salvation Army, Legal Aid of Western Michigan and Health...

In early August, a manufactured housing community formerly known as North Morris Estates in Thetford Township, Michigan met an important milestone: the park is now fully licensed to operate by state regulators.[1]

The new license marks a historic win after a period of extended tumult under the park’s former owners, the hedge fund Alden Global Capital and its manufactured housing subsidiary Homes of America. In August of 2024, the Genesee County Prosecutor filed criminal charges against former owner Homes of America for running the mobile home park without a license in the city of Mount Morris. Homes of America pleaded guilty to a one-year...

WELLS — During one of his first campaign stops on what’s scheduled to be a jam-packed Labor Day weekend, Troy Jackson met with residents of a mobile home park to discuss the upcoming election.

Yet the conversation at Blueberry Ridge Mobile Village was less about the Democrat’s campaign for the U.S. Senate and more about the residents’ success getting a local ordinance on the November ballot to cap annual rent increases based on the rate of inflation.

“When we come together, we can do great things — you’ve shown it right here,” Jackson told a few dozen residents, who gathered Saturday morning in Diane Whiteside’s backyard, sitting in...

The trade group representing Maine’s mobile home industry told officials in one southern Maine town it is preparing to sue them and other municipalities if they pass ordinances restricting how much mobile home park owners can raise lot rents.

The Eliot select board was considering such a rent stabilization ordinance at its meeting last week, part of a growing effort by towns across the state to protect residents of local mobile home parks who say they are dealing with poor conditions and sharp rent hikes. At least seven municipalities, including Brunswick, Old Orchard Beach and Waterville, have adopted these ordinances since 2024, and...

A 19-unit mobile-home park won approval from the St. Johns County Planning and Zoning Agency despite objections from nearby property owners.

The board voted 4–2 last month to grant a zoning variance for the 4.77-acre property at 1045 Cypress Road.

County regulations ordinarily require at least 10 acres for a mobile-home park.

The property is already zoned for manufactured and mobile homes. The applicant’s attorney, James Whitehouse, argued that the proposal meets the county’s other requirements for fire access, stormwater management, utilities, parking, landscaping and buffers.

The owner intends to provide and retain ownership of all 19...

The final two years of the Trump administration could be pivotal for the manufactured housing industry, experts say, as political pressure mounts to address the nation's massive housing shortage.

Manufactured housing—a category ranging from prefabricated materials to factory-built housing—has for years struggled to expand beyond a niche building type. But 2026 has brought the bipartisan housing reform package, the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, which includes reforms to encourage manufactured housing.

"That's a response to an affordability crisis," Suzanne Garwood, a managing director and associate general counsel for JPMorgan Chase,...

Broader placement and occupancy of manufactured homes — particularly in neighborhoods zoned for single-family dwellings — could be one of the major consequences in New Hampshire of the new federal housing law.

Known as the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the bipartisan legislation seeks to address the lack of supply in the Granite State and across the country by, among other features, reducing barriers to development, protecting neighborhoods from corporate raiders and attracting more capital for builders.

The consequences of the housing act, which became law July 10, were discussed Aug. 13 among a group of housing advocates in a  Read More

America is plagued by a housing crisis. One possible solution is manufactured housing, which can be produced quickly and relatively cheaply. A new federal housing law could open the door to the sector’s expansion. To succeed, though, manufactured housing must overcome the stigmas against mobile homes and trailer parks.

Manufactured homes are quietly “filling the suburbs,” said The Washington Post. The dwellings were long looked down on as “low-quality, less-safe housing” that was mostly “limited to trailer parks and rural properties” for decades, but higher-quality models are springing up in the “typical American...

Residents at Katoonah Lodges, a 55-plus community in Missoula, are struggling with a 35% increase in lot rent since the park was purchased by an out-of-state investment firm. Many fixed-income seniors say they now feel trapped, as home sales stall and affordability declines, prompting the formation of a tenants union seeking rent protections.

Families at Green Mountain Mobile Manor in Fair Haven are facing a possible Sept. 1 closure deadline that residents say threatens their housing stability.

In the letter, Turi wrote that the closure "threatens the housing stability of 25 residents, including 11 children."

According to reporting by VTDigger and Vermont Public, Turi moved her family of seven into the park a year ago after relocating from northern Maine to be closer to medical specialists and her parents. The home cost $15,000, an amount her family could manage on her part-time income as a substitute teacher and her husband's work in property maintenance.

Carol DeAngelis first learned Aug. 7 that her mobile home park near Asheville had been purchased by COARE Communities. A day later, she attended a meeting held at the mobile home park, where a representative from COARE told her that her lot rent would rise from $350 to $850, an account confirmed by two other tenants who attended the meeting.

The Town of Ulster held a public hearing last week to discuss seeking grant funding for additional infrastructure improvements at the Brigham Lane Mobile Home Park. However, the application will likely take place next year instead of in 2026.

The residential park, which opened over 65 years ago, has 48 lots for mobile homes, but only about 35 are currently occupied. Improvements to the sewer and water systems could help revitalize the community. According to the town’s grant consultant, Mark Blauer of Blauer Associates, Ulster County views communities like Brigham Lane Mobile Home Park as a way to address the local housing crisis.

“The...

STANDISH — The room filled with applause Tuesday after Standish Town Council passed an emergency 90-day mobile home park rent control ordinance, effective immediately.

The temporary moratorium is intended to protect mobile home park residents in Standish from rent increases before the November election, when voters will decide whether to pass the measure permanently. Advocates collected enough signatures earlier this month to place rent control on the ballot.

The emergency ordinance states that mobile home parks have long served as affordable housing for lower-income residents and seniors on fixed incomes in Standish, and that many...

New Mexico lawmakers said this week they intend to try again to enact a law that would help mobile home park residents purchase their communities amid rising out-of-state ownership.

Maria Griego, economic equity director at the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, told lawmakers on the interim Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee on Tuesday that other states, including Colorado, have “resident-owned community” legislation that aims to help mobile home park residents buy and collectively run their own communities.

Such a law would require owners to notify residents of a mobile home park, as well as the state Mortgage Finance...

Seniors in another Pennsylvania Cloverleaf community are publicly pushing back against rising housing costs, saying steep lot-rent increases are putting serious pressure on residents with few realistic options to move.

As WPXI reported, the demonstration at Cloverleaf West in Carnegie adds to a broader outcry from older adults in manufactured-home communities who say they are being priced out of their neighborhoods.

The station reported that people living in Cloverleaf West, a 55-and-over community, held a protest with homemade signs over charges they say are unfair. The demonstration came after residents at another...

Douglassville, PA – Today, Governor Josh Shapiro visited a manufactured housing community in Berks County to call for reform to protect Pennsylvanians living in manufactured home communities from predatory practices often used by out-of-state property management companies. In his 2026 Budget Address, Governor Shapiro called on the Pennsylvania General Assembly to pass legislation limiting annual lot rent increases for manufactured housing communities. This legislation, coupled with reforms included in the Governor’s 2026-27 proposed budget and Housing Action Plan, would protect manufactured homeowners and help make housing more affordable...

WOODSTOCK, Ga. — The City of Woodstock provided an update on a development plan that threatens to displace 130 families not far from downtown Woodstock.

The city said in a social media post that the developer who plans to redevelop Ansley Park has asked the city council to table the case and send it back to the planning commission.

Channel 2’s Tom Regan previously reported that the owner of Ansley Park is retiring. The plans called for the mobile home community to be sold to a developer, who plans to build 220 single-family homes on the site.

Those opposed to the plan say it threatens to displace “working‑class, predominantly...

BOURBON COUNTY, Ky. — In Kentucky, landlords can terminate month-to-month tenancies without citing nonpayment, behavior problems, or breaches of contract.

Brandon King is living that reality. A "For Sale" sign stands outside his place in the Turfland mobile home community, but King says he was forced to move out three weeks ago without explanation.

King owns his trailer but rents the lot beneath it. He says he is now barred from the property while a lawsuit involving dozens of tenants and their landlord, Maple Grove MHC LLC, plays out in court.

"Yes, I ain't allowed on the property, they said I was kicked off the property during the...

Residents of Mountain View Park in Mancos are purchasing their 31-space mobile home community and converting it into a not-for-profit cooperative with the goal of stabilizing rent and securing long-term housing for those who call it home, as well as those who will eventually move in.

Sharon Reddert has lived at the park for more than 30 years and is one of the residents leading the effort for the purchase of the community. She is acting as president for Mountain View Cooperative Inc.’s interim five-member volunteer board.

“We don’t get paid. It’s a work of love to benefit our community, as it is very time consuming,” she said. “Our board...

The residents of a mobile home park in Loveland, many of whom are retirees or seniors, are working to buy the property themselves after they were notified of the sale this spring.

The listing price for the Sunset Park Manufactured Home Community is $44.5 million. The 24-acre park hosts 164 double-wide homes.

Residents found out about the sale in April, when a ‘notice of intent to sell’ was sent out.

According to the document, residents would have 120 days to put together financing and make an offer to Legacy Communities LLC, the park’s current owner.

Since then, a committee has started the formal process of submitting a bid, including...