CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — People living in a community tailored to seniors say they moved there because it was affordable. Now, they’re staring down a 40% rent hike.

Residents of Oak Spring Mobile Home Park along Route 19 in Cranberry Township are facing a difficult choice: pay up or move out.

Some people who live here are very upset, telling Channel 11 that a lot of them moved to the park because it was affordable.

They say this extreme rent increase is unfair and that some of them can’t afford it.

Barbara Bindewald moved to the park to be closer to her kids and grandkids.

“Everyone is upset with that much of an increase that fast with...

Living in a mobile home or trailer probably doesn’t always have a positive connotation among the wealthiest class. But, that perception apparently didn’t stop “Shark Tank” businesswoman and real estate entrepreneur Barbara Corcoran from buying a double-wide trailer in Los Angeles.

She recently showed off her mobile home to TikTok star Caleb Simpson in a video tour. Corcoran previously walked the TikTok star through her Manhattan apartment about a year ago, which she also owns.

The Pacific Palisades trailer cost Corcoran $800,000 and she said she put another $150,000 into it.

For comparison, the average price of a new double-wide trailer...

by , Community News Service Only a third of Vermont’s 20,000 occupied mobile homes qualify for the state’s mobile home park registry, a list often included in criteria for home improvement loans and grants. A House bill introduced last week seeks to include more of those homes, and homeowners, in the list — and give them more financial opportunities. 

The bill, H.618, aims to expand the legal definition of mobile home parks to include communities of mobile homeowners who own their own lots. Currently, state law defines mobile home parks as land with at least two mobile homes or mobile home lots, or adjacent land owned by the...

The growing trend of large corporations imposing exorbitant rent increases after acquiring manufactured home communities limits affordable housing options and threatens the financial security of those on fixed incomes – especially seniors. 

That’s why a coalition of communities in Pennsylvania is advocating for legislation that would protect residents from this practice. 

Manufactured homes are built in factories and assembled on-site. They are unique in that residents own the home, but not the land they occupy.

After their community was sold to Kingsley Management in Provo, Utah in 2022, the residents of Douglass Village in Berks County...

now removal contracts. Broken sewer pipes. Insurance payments.  

Owning a mobile home park is no easy business. The two dozen people packed into a small meeting room in Glenwood Springs, Colo. at least once per month are finding out just how difficult it will be as they train to become owners of the 3-Mile Mobile Home Park south of town.  

Some of these owners-to-be have rented spaces in 3-Mile for nearly four decades. Their mobile homes are situated on 20 cottonwood-shaded lots snugged up against steep hillsides at the end of a precipitous one-lane drive. Over the years, the 90 or so residents have added extra rooms and covered porches....

This bill from Del. Nadarius Clark, D-Portsmouth, would prohibit the collection of medical debt if collection proceedings aren’t begun within three years of the due date noted on the final invoice for a health care service. The prohibition would not apply to patients who are on a payment plan that allows a hospital or health care provider a longer period of time to collect medical debt. 

Current law has a five-year statute of limitations for the collection of medical debt related to services provided in private hospitals. However, no such requirements exist for public hospitals or debt collection agencies that buy medical debt from health...

West Kelowna city council has decided to hold off third reading on a re-zoning application that would displace dozens of residents amid the ongoing housing crisis.

Kerr Properties owns the land that currently houses Shady Acres Manufacturing Home Park. It was hoping to have the property rezoned to light industrial.

However, the proposal would see dozens of residents displaced — all on low income and many with physical and mental disabilities.

“There is definitely a need for assistance that goes beyond just the relocation assistance that’s being offered by Kerr Properties,” said councillor Stephen Johnston.

Many of the affected residents...

RED BLUFF, Calif. — What is said to be by the Tehama County Sheriff's Office a ‘high-crime’ trailer park in Red Bluff was being demolished Thursday.

The Antelope Homewood Mobile Home Park off of Belle-Mill Road has been a problem area for the Tehama County Sheriff's Office for several years. Now, with the demolition of multiple condemned trailers and squatters being removed, it may no longer be a thorn in their back.

Tehama County Sheriff Dave Kain told the Northstate's News Tyler Van Dyke they have been dealing with the problem property for years.

Residents at a Defiance trailer park have more time to find a new place to live following a court hearing in which the property owner and the city were at odds over demolition.

The owners of Northtowne Estates in Defiance agreed Friday to let the city demolish 12 uninhabited trailers and give the residents in six other trailers 45 days to find a new place to live, according to a city law director.

Earlier this month, 13 Action News reported one resident was caught between the trailer park in the city when the city said she had to vacate the property but the trailer park said she didn’t have to. It was just weeks after she had moved in.

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Mobile home parks are coming up for sale and there are signs that a new law giving residents a chance to buy them is working.

Since mid-July, 11 properties have gone on the market in Washington and residents of seven are using tools from the three-month-old law to pursue ownership, the state House Housing Committee heard Thursday.

The other four “didn’t pencil out for folks,” Brigid Henderson, manager of the Manufactured/Mobile Home Relocation Assistance Program told lawmakers.

There are 1,169 registered mobile home parks and manufactured housing communities in Washington. Collectively they have 65,175 spaces of which 5,950 are vacant,...

A new piece of legislation would allow a little more notice for Idahoans living in mobile home parks if their property is going to be sold.

On Tuesday, Rep. Elaine Price, R-Coeur d’Alene, brought a new bill to the House Business Committee requiring owners of mobile home parks to give notice to mobile home associations in their park if they enter a purchase agreement to sell the property to a new owner. Price said this is important because often mobile home parks aren’t listed for sale and change hands in private sales, so residents have no knowledge when their park is changing hands at all.

“Although it seems like it’s farther along in...

A public hearing on the proposed rezoning of a mobile home park in West Kelowna, which may force dozens of people to look for a new place to live, takes place Tuesday, Jan. 23.

The land owner wants to rezone Shady Acres Park, located at 2355 Marshall Road, to light industrial.

Several park residents showed up at council’s Dec. 12 meeting to hear the rezoning proposal be given first and second readings.

The city has already received correspondence citing concerns about a shortage of housing, compensation, assessment of homes, and fears of losing quality of life.

The public hearing will take place in council chambers at 2760 Cameron Road...

The Woodland East Mobile Home Park is a community of residents 55 and older in Southwest Washington, roughly 20 miles north of Vancouver. The Columbian recently reported on the plight of the many seniors who live there and struggle to pay $1050 per month to rent a lot, in addition to their mortgages, utilities and other expenses. The tenants claim the landlord has raised their rent by 250% since he purchased Woodland East in 2017 and have filed more than 100 complaints against him with the Washington Attorney General’s office.

But now the tenants are facing their biggest hurdle. They received notice last fall the community was up for sale...

The City of San Bernardino has announced it has been awarded nearly $35 million in a Project Homekey grant from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to provide interim housing for chronically homeless men in the city.

This is the largest grant awarded during the current round of Homekey funding and is believed to be the largest competitive grant the City of San Bernardino has ever received.

“This is a big win for San Bernardino. It allows us to continue making strides to address homelessness in the City and provide essential support to our homeless population,” said San Bernardino City Manager Charles...

13 families have been given notices that they will have to move out before this summer. Merkel ISD bought a plot of land near its high school to expand its campus, which has 13 occupied manufactured homes.

Brad Isenhower moved to the Sunset Manufactured Home Park in Merkel about seven years ago in search of a fresh start after he and his family lost their home to a fire in Abilene.

“I bought this so my son could have some kind of normalcy. My son would have a room… He could go to school, we would be settled. Now it seems like we are being punched in the gut again,” Isenhower told KTAB/KRBC.

The land was purchased by Merkel ISD in...

ST. CLOUD, Fla. — For the past four years, people living in Lake Runnymeade Mobile Home Park in St. Cloud have been fighting to get and keep basic amenities from their property owner.

In the past few years, residents said the property has started to deteriorate, all while the rent continues to rise.

“I was paying $410 a month when I first moved here. Next month, I pay $915,” said Angela Silas,” a resident at Lake Runnymeade.

Silas showed Eyewitness News pictures of gray and brown drinking water and the community pool with green water while blocked off with caution tape.

“We’ve had dark water coming out of our sinks before to the point...

Maria Bermudes is living in a two-bedroom duplex with her husband and two kids after she was forced out of her home at the Pan American Estates Mobile Home Park.

In October, she and more than 200 residents got notices on their doors, stating that the property had been sold.

They were given six months to move out.

“We see the notice on our door saying that we have until April to move out,” she said.

Bermudes had bought her home in February 2023 for about $40,000 and spent more than $20,000 fixing it up. She planned to move in, in November.

“It was more spacious,” Bermudes said. “It was gonna be our forever home. It was gonna have four...

To paraphrase Dustin Hoffman speaking about Peter Pan in the movie Hook, park owner John Saunders HATES, HATES, HATES Rancho La Paz Senior Mobile Home Park. YOU WOULD, TOO, if you were John Saunders. But therein lies a challenge – to imagine you are John Saunders, you first have to arm yourself with boundless greed, entitlement, and malevolence. Only THEN can you grasp how much he hates the plucky mobile home-owning seniors of Rancho La Paz, the ONLY park of the dozens he’s gobbled up to actually get STATE LEGISLATION (thanks to Sharon Quirk-Silva) to protect them from his insatiable rent-gouging. THE GALL!

So for the last three years...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Daniel Lynch flushed the toilet inside his trailer home in Soldotna. Water slowly circled the bowl, and kept circling and then kept circling. After about two minutes the water finally drained and remained that way for several hours.

“What do you teach your kids? Flush the toilet. Wash your hands,” Lynch said. “Forget that because you can’t do either.

Lynch and several residents at the River Terrace RV Park, which is located along the banks of the Kenai River, all received eviction notices this summer. With limited time left in the park, the residents of the 19-unit park enlisted the Northern Justice Project to...

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - The Yuma County Board of Supervisors is seeking direction on what to do about one local mobile home park after they say the park has violated many zoning code violations for years.

Yuma County Supervisors are still not sure what to do to get the owners of the park to clean it up.

“Yeah we live in the ghetto, but come on, we still pay our rent here," said Leslie, a Bann Mobile Home Park resident.

Some residents we spoke to say they've even had their water shut off without warning.

“And now we got our water on but it's still, when is it going to get shut off again and for how long, you know? Because she ain’t...

CATOOSA, Okla. — People in a mobile home park in Catoosa who are trying to stay warm with no gas showed how they’re surviving in the below-freezing temperatures.

Residents of the Pine Creek Estates haven’t had gas in three weeks since a fire and a gas leak on Christmas Eve.

People living at the mobile home park let FOX23 inside their homes to show how they’re managing to heat water, cook and try to stay warm.

One woman, who wants to remain anonymous, showed a small pot on a hot plate and said that is how she is heating water.

"That’s it. That’s our source of hot water. That’s it, that’s our hot water for the house. That’s how we clean if...

SALINE COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH) - A Saline County family reached out to 12 News after they and their neighbors lost water last week during a dangerous cold stretch. The privately owned water utility serves the Sundowner West Mobile Home Park northwest of Salina. The utility owner said water services were returned Monday but the KDHE put that area under a boil water advisory due to a loss of pressure.

On Tuesday, faucets in Misty Livingston-Holmes’s home in Sundowner West were fully opened, but the water pouring through wasn’t at a strong pressure.

“I’ve lived out here for 35 years and I’ve never experienced a water loss that has lasted this...

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Linnhaven mobile home park in Brunswick. According to a letter distributed to residents in November, the park is being offered for sale. The Maine housing authority told The Times Record that it did not receive the required notice, a violation of a new law to protect the rights of manufactured homeowners that went into effect in October. Luna Soley / The Times Record

The Maine housing authority says it never received required notice that Kurt Scarponi, owner of Brunswick’s Linnhaven Mobile Home Center, was intending to sell the park.

According to a law that went into effect Oct. 25, 2023, mobile home park owners are required to notify all...

As mobile home owners fight rising housing costs, some of them have hit upon a solution that also helps in the fight against climate change: banding together and buying the land underneath their homes.

This model of collective ownership, also called resident-owned cooperatives or ROCs, is on the rise. The number of mobile homes attached to a resident-owned cooperative grew from just over 200 in 2000 to more than 15,000 in 2019, according to a 2022 study from researchers at Berkeley, Cornell, and MIT. 

When residents own the land, they can move more quickly to upgrade infrastructure. That’s where climate change comes in. Renewables...