Mobile Home Park News Briefing

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.

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...

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...

Effort to cap rent increases

The backstory:

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...

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.”

(“I still get...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

This story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.

FAIR HAVEN — When Hope Turi moved her family into a manufactured home at the Green Mountain Mobile Manor one year ago, it felt like everything clicked right into place.

Turi’s family of seven had been living in northern Maine. Following an emergency birth for her youngest kids, a set of twin boys, Turi wanted to move closer to medical specialists — and to her parents, who live across the border in New York, she said. After a stint bunking with relatives, the family found their own home at the Fair Haven...

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...

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.

When 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...

This issue brief reflects the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act passed by the Senate and House and awaiting the president’s signature.

After months of back-and-forth between the Senate and the House, the two chambers reached an agreement on a comprehensive bipartisan housing package, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. On June 22, 2026, the Senate passed the bill 85-5 and the following day the House passed the bill 358-32.

The final version of the bill largely reflects the previous House amendment to the Senate’s 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act with a few notable compromises:

• It adds six sections only included in Senate legislation to...

We have received text from S. 4804: Manufactured Housing Lending Act. This bill was received on 2026-06-17, and currently has 2 cosponsors.

Here is a short summary of the bill:

This bill would require the Federal Housing Finance Agency to tell

and

to each create a pilot program for buying or sharing risk on certain manufactured home loans.

In practical terms, the bill is aimed at helping finance personal property manufactured homes —that is, manufactured homes financed as movable property rather than as real estate. The agency would have up to 18 months after enactment to direct the two mortgage companies to set...

The Roaring Fork Mobile Home Park (RFMHP) is an aptly named mobile home park just off of South Grand Avenue in Glenwood Springs. The park has 12 mobile homes and two apartments, making it smaller in comparison to others. Residents say a lot of people don’t even know it exists.

On Sept. 12, 2023, park residents received a notice of their right to buy the property, giving them 120 days to raise enough money to match the sale price. The deal never closed. Today, a Facebook Marketplace listing for the park, posted by one of its five listed owners, prices the park at $2.25 million. 

Aide Gonzalez, a resident of the park, and a handful of other...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Families at Forest Park Mobile Home Park in northeast Charlotte are in the final stages of moving off the property after a deadline to vacate the decades-old community passed Sunday.

Residents said the closure is forcing long-time tenants out of Charlotte and reflects a wider affordability crunch. A developer plans to replace the mobile home park with new apartments and townhomes, according to previous rezoning petitions.

“It’s horrible, it’s been a nightmare,” said Raul Ramirez, who has lived in the park for 30 years. He said even with some time to pack up and move, “it seems like the time is not enough.”

Ramirez...

EAU CLAIRE — A bill in the Wisconsin legislature looks to address housing affordability and safety in manufactured home communities.

Senate Bill 1027, introduced by several Democratic senators including Sen. Jeff Smith (D-Brunswick), aims to make a number of changes regarding mobile or manufactured home communities.

“We currently don’t have any rules or laws that protect them in those places. And the further away you get from the actual park as far as ownership, the less likely the residents there get the services that they need,” Smith said. “It’s certainly been what I’ve learned from meetings I’ve had with people in Dunn County, and Eau...

Across the country, the people who build, preserve, and steward community-owned homes are forming coalitions to make community ownership of housing a centerpiece of state and local policy. Drawing on conversations with 37 advocates and practitioners, the two of us set out to understand why these coalitions are multiplying—and what it will take for them to last.

Of the 16—by our count—state and local coalitions focused on advancing community ownership policy, 13 are less than 10 years old, and 9 have formed in the past 3 years. Many more coalitions incorporate community ownership policies into their broader advocacy agenda.

These...

Residents at San Lazaro Mobile Home Park just outside Boulder's city limits are hoping to become Colorado's 20th Resident-Owned Community, or ROC, under a state law that gives mobile home residents the opportunity to purchase their park when an owner decides to sell.

For families like Maria Ramirez's, the effort may be the only way to afford to stay in their home.

"It's our little home... We have nowhere else to go," said Ramirez, who addressed our crew in Spanish.

Ramirez has lived at San Lazaro Mobile Home Park with her family for nine years. The entire community, reported to be 213 homes, is now up for sale with an asking price of...

Some residents say they are losing access to their storm shelter and that crime has recently increased after gates and security were removed.