“There wasn’t real data to support any of the changes,” Commission Chair Ruben Navarro told San José Spotlight

Come on, this is California – since when do they need any actual facts to support socialism? All these idiots are doing is setting in motion the redevelopment of all these parks in San Jose. Land brokers are with those owners right now discussion options. What a bunch of morons.

CASPER — When Lynette Grant woke up in late October to a notice detailing a 56% jump in rent taped to the door of her mobile home, it didn’t take long to start questioning why the increase was so drastic — and how it was even allowed. Grant worried what the surge from $400 to $625 …

More gaslighting. In Casper, Wyoming the average SF home is $256,000 and, as a result, clearly $625 lot rent is a joke. But the writer wants you to focus only on the percentage of increase and NOT the actual dollar amount. Based on this same logic they should immediately file an injunction on McDonald’s because the McChicken went from $1 to $3 – that’s a 300% increase by comparison yet … it’s ridiculously cheap, too.

And another park bites the dust – at the hands of a non-profit developer, no less. Plenty of gaslighting, of course, that it’s for the tenants’ own good.

In the past, manufactured home communities were largely “mom-and-pop” enterprises. Though they were still subjected to abusive practices, tenants usually knew their landlords and saw them often, and rents were much more stable.

More gaslighting to distract from the actual issue, which is simply that mobile home park residents want the government to stop new owners from being able to raise rents. It’s called socialism.

Residents of Fairfax County’s manufactured home communities pressed county leaders yesterday (Tuesday) to do more to protect the properties from redevelopment and those who live there from displacement.

Mobile home parks are not a very high use of land. The rents are low and there’s only one-story, as opposed to apartments which are three stories high and have rents three times bigger. The law says that a park owner can sell their property any time they want for redevelopment. When you stand in opposition to property rights, you are advocating socialism, nothing more. You can’t sugarcoat it.

The city of Bell owns both of the mobile home parks, which house about 300 families. The plan aimed to redevelop the land into new affordable housing, seniors homes, retail, restaurants and entertainment spaces

Another park bites the dust – times two. And this time at the hands of a city government.

“Mr. Oakland, this is not a tough demand. Meet with your tenants,” said Morrison, Bozeman’s mayor-elect. “Eyes are on this fight. The city is watching this, the county is watching this, and the state of Montana is watching what happens in King Arthur Park.”

How ridiculous all of this gaslighting is. The owner wants to sell the park. That’s his legal right. The tenants don’t want a new owner as their current rent is too low and they know a more professional owner will raise rents to market levels. The town mayor wants free publicity. You put all this in a blender and your get this article with its ridiculous call for attention to … something nobody cares about.

“Put simply, wealthy investors are squeezing every last cent from some of our most vulnerable and least-resourced communities in the name of profit.”

This concept is not new – Elizabth Warren did the exact same thing in 2019. What the facts will prove out is that private equity groups are the only reason that these properties still exist, as nobody has the capital to make necessary and expensive capital repairs (millions of dollars’ worth at some mobile home parks). Instead of giving private equity groups accolades for saving literally thousands of people from being homeless, leftist Democrats think there’s political capital in playing the “Free Rent Movement” schtick to their constituency from time to time. Since Republicans control Congress, this socialist nonsense won’t go anywhere. Fortunately, the end of healthcare subsidies will take the spotlight off “evil landlords” soon and refocus it on “evil health insurance providers”.

The bill directs HUD to update the legal definition of “manufactured housing” and to study how modular and other off-site homes are financed and regulated, with the goal of making it easier to build more of them.

Don’t you love the government’s obsession with “studies”? It’s absolutely meaningless, because it never leads to any action.

Tanya Dwyer, who lives at Hidden Circle, said her rent rose $50, to $325 a month — an increase of more than 18 percent. Her disability income is about $670 a month. She said she works part time, but the pay does not cover the higher rent.

You can’t manage a business by focusing on the one-off situations but instead by the greater good of the majority of residents. If you have $670 a month in income, you clearly need to immediately apply for Section 8 as there is no non-subsidized form of housing on earth you can possibly afford – but that’s not representative of 99.99999% of residents. That’s as nuts as saying that McDonald’s has to stop using meat because it might trigger one individual’s food allergies. Rents keep going up because all prices keep going up (water, sewer, property tax, insurance, etc.) and mobile home parks need to justify capital improvements. Sure, socialist folks hate that reality, but anyone with an IQ higher than a lima bean knows that what Maine is doing is downright stupid and will result in massive park closures for redevelopment.

And another park bites the dust.

This article has it all wrong. Mobile homes in California are not at risk from higher rents, they are at risk from being removed for redevelopment of mobile home parks into other uses that don’t have rent control. There have been 722 mobile home parks shut down for rebuilding into a different use so far – and the number is accelerating. If those 722 closed parks had an average of 100 lots each, that’s 72,200 households. If California had any common sense they would immediately get rid of rent control in its entirety as it only serves to deprive new construction and capital investment in housing and encourages redevelopment on a massive scale.

Wood Partners, the developer who is purchasing the Forest Park land, filed a rezoning petition with the City of Charlotte to demolish the mobile homes and replace them with multi-family units, townhomes, and a commercial center.

And another park bites the dust.

Lennar has developed tiny home community with prices averaged at $140,000 for 661 square feet. 

No, tiny homes are not the solution at that price. The solution would be allowing regular mobile homes, 3-bedroom in size, at a price point of $80,000 or so. Tiny homes are simply too small for 99% of Americans, and to pretend that a family can be satisfied using the washer and dryer as dining chairs and a bathroom the size of a gun safe is ample is simply ridiculous. Has the Loudoun Housing Board ever even been in a tiny home? But at least the respect for the economic advantage of alternative housing is refreshing.

The situation at Shady Oaks mirrors a broader trend across Maine, where mobile home parks purchased by out-of-state investment firms have issued steep rent increases.

You know when you see any article coming out of Maine that the theme will always be that private equity groups are inherently evil and all parks should be owned by non-profits and tenants – the usual socialist take on America. The only thing I ever wonder is how Maine got so screwed up politically. Apparently consuming too much lobster and maple syrup turns you into a raging idiot.

Representative Cleaver (D-MO) said the “Housing Supply Expansion Act of 2025” would remove a requirement that forces manufactured homes to include a permanent chassis - even after installation.

This is an interesting development as the industry tried to get this done all the way back in the 1970s and was soundly defeated by HUD. Being able to have mobile homes that are not sticking awkwardly up in the air on cinder-black stilts would take a lot of the negative stigma off the mobile home product, but the single-family home lobby will fight this tooth and nail as they did in the 1970’s. Let’s see what happens.

Most of the homes, which are built on leased land that is not part of the purchase, are selling from the mid to upper $200,000s.

Come on, folks, $200,000 is NOT affordable. Can somebody please define what “affordable” means anymore? Is $100 an affordable lunch? This disconnect from the American public is the source of much of the problem when it comes to housing.

“Our mobile home park owners throughout the city have a lot of maintenance that’s needed, as well as the continuing rises in utility costs, infrastructure costs and construction costs,” Soliván said at the meeting. “This 10% (increase) allows for… additional revenue to invest in continuing capital costs, while also mitigating some of the continuing rent increases across the site.”

Socialists in California are going to go nuts now that the city of San Jose is turning on their rent-control dream and realizing that it’s not working out as planned. Obviously, if you don’t let rents go up you’re not going to have landlords putting capital back into their properties. Is idiocy at risk of defeat at the hands of common sense in California? We’ll see what happens.

“Oak Creek has succeeded in showing that the City’s interpretation of the Short-Term Rental Statute violates the statute’s plain language," the court's ruling states.

I can’t fathom anyone wanting to stay at an Air BNB in a mobile home park, but it’s always good news when a mobile home park beats a city in court.

This reminds me of the Trump administration being criticized for not lowering egg prices within the first week of the new administration. When you take over a mobile home park that has been neglected for over a decade, you’re not going to get it fully turned around overnight. The new owners have spent over $2 million in upgrades so far, so I think they should be getting accolades and not criticism. If they gave every resident a million dollars, cured cancer and ended the War in Ukraine, there would always be park residents who complain it's “not enough”, right?

Another way to help combat rising lot rents is for residents to form a cooperative and purchase the park. That’s been successful in other parts of Maine, including Thomaston, Augusta, Bangor and Veazie.

No, that’s a complete lie. The truth is that absolutely zero percent of the time does the non-profit buying the park lead to lower lot rents. Not one example of that has ever happened. Instead, the residents pay MORE from non-profit ownership. The debt service of the giant loan requires massive rent hikes and the inability of the residents to collect rent from their friends, and manage the park effectively, results in much higher rents than a professional owner would ever require. And that does not even count the eventual collapse of the non-profit’s loan, which has already occurred in Colorado and other markets. This is one of the narratives the socialists love to beat to death, but it’s a complete lie.

It's interesting to note that socialist journalists had no less than nine nearly identical articles on this same story this week, in an apparent attempt at brainwashing the American public that capitalist landlords are evil. Were you convinced?

“When revenue fails to keep pace with inflation while expenses grow dramatically faster, the long-term viability of the community is at serious risk,” Harmony spokesperson Nick Ubaldi said. “The proposed rent adjustment is not about generating excess profit; it is the minimum necessary to allow the park to keep up with inflation and remain sustainable.”

The only sensible quote from this article. If lot rents can’t go up, then Harmony has no other option but to bring in the wrecking ball and put multi-story apartments on this land. Just watch what happens next.

Under Senate Bill 79, she noted, the park could theoretically be redeveloped into a nine-story building — even though hundreds of families already live there in homes they own outright.

Ronald Reagan’s best all-time quote was “the nine most dangerous words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”. All of these park residents are screwed and only have their city fathers to thank for it.

I didn’t initially know much about these communities, often called mobile home parks, where residents own their homes but rent the land they sit on. I quickly learned they provide a critical source of affordable housing in Wisconsin and beyond — the country’s largest portion of unsubsidized low-income housing. Housing experts and advocates told me private equity’s growing interest in the model threatens to change that.

There were multiple articles on this same topic – the same B.S. over and over and over. I fully understand why socialists would regard private equity groups as pure capitalism and, therefore, the antichrist, but the argument is complete nonsense and anyone who believes it is dumb as dirt. Private equity groups have done more to save failing mobile home parks than any other group, having poured hundreds of millions of dollars into fixing broken infrastructure and management. They should receive accolades not abuse. But there’s no way a socialist could give a medal to a private equity group, no matter what the facts are. “Trump derangement syndrome” is only exceeded by “private equity derangement syndrome”. Pathetic.

And another park bites the dust.