RESIDENTS at a mobile home park fear losing their homes and having to "start all over again" after rent hikes and eviction threats.

Tiny home villages are popular among those with low incomes, veterans, and people with disabilities due to their affordability and sense of community.

However, residents at Live Oaks Manufactured Home Community in Mt. Washington, Kentucky say changes in ownership mean they are more likely to be able to "buy a home off the market" than afford their new rent.

Army veteran Mike Runnells moved out of Bullitt County in 2020 to find peace at Live Oaks after his father loaned him money to buy a mobile home.

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Land use regulations are implemented locally, under authority given to municipalities by their state government. It is generally accepted that the federal government has limited ability to influence local land use regulations. Nevertheless, over the past 50 years, the federal government has sought to understand the extent and effects of regulatory barriers and encourage state and local governments to reduce the zoning and other land use regulations that have prevented jurisdictions across the country from providing adequate and affordable housing for current and future residents. This article discusses PD&R's role as part of those federal...

On the heels of a recent notification that some residents will be displaced from a mobile home park in Gunnison while the park undergoes renovations and has new mobile homes installed, the Gunnison Valley Rural Transportation Authority (RTA) board of directors agreed last week to temporarily offer several vacant units it has available in Gunnison for workforce housing to alleviate the sudden housing crunch. 

The small mobile home park, Frontier Lands, is located in Gunnison city limits, has 12 lots and approximately 40 to 50 residents. The park went up for sale in late 2022, and the Gunnison Valley Regional Housing Authority (GVRHA) set...

During its meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 22, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors will consider an urgency ordinance placing a temporary moratorium on rent increases in mobile home park spaces in unincorporated areas. 

The temporary freeze on rent increases is designed to preserve housing for vulnerable populations while the Board of Supervisors considers updating an existing ordinance that regulates rent increases in mobile home parks in unincorporated areas.  

If approved, the ordinance would take effect immediately and will remain in effect until the board adopts an ordinance amending the existing regulations, or through February 29,...

Last year when my friend Tami Crandall from Spearfish, S.D., renewed her home insurance on her 2,400-square-foot, 1913 two-story farmhouse with a detached garage, the price tag was about what she expected: $1,800 for the year. But Tami’s daughter and son-in-law, who live just a hundred feet away in a 1,500-square-foot manufactured home—a factory-built structure that rests on a permanent metal chassis as its foundation—had to pay more than twice that amount, almost $4,000, for similar coverage. 

Manufactured homes, built in just a few facilities around the country and then shipped to a manufactured home park or land you own, are...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Residents at Lake Bradford Estates met to share stories of dealing with alleged poor living conditions, rent increases and eviction threats at a Tallahassee mobile home park.

Melanie Payne-Powell has lived in Lake Bradford Estates for 33 years, she purchased her current mobile home in 1997.

“I bought that mobile home with my husband’s death money so I could keep a roof over our heads,” said Lake Bradford Estates resident Melanie Payne-Powell. “I was homeless 35 years ago. I don’t ever wanna do that again.”

Payne-Powell lives on a fixed income and said, like other residents in Lake Bradford Estates, her rent has...

I have lived at the San Roque Mobile park for over 30 years now. I have seen many changes – some good, and far more bad ones. We have big potholes in our streets. Our park has become a trash mesh. Things get started and never get finished. Now they have closed off some of our streets, and the stupid gates are so silly indeed. This is not a nice place anymore for us!

Attorneys for a mobile home park in Santa Clarita have played their latest card in a legal poker game with the city over a hillside covered with solar panels.

Canyon View Mobile Home Estates has responded to an appeal filed by the city to a judge’s order regarding the solar system at 20001 Canyon View Drive in Canyon Country, The Signal reported.

Superior Court Judge Stephen Pfahler ruled early last year that if the city orders the removal of 6,580 solar panels, the city must pay for the panels (which it can keep) and the cost of plucking them off the hill.

The city’s appeal last spring argued the city 30 miles north of Los Angeles...

MONMONTH, Maine (WABI) - A community of Maine builders came together for a cause.

“You never really think about unhoused teenagers,” Chase Morrill with Maine Cabin Masters said.

They’re building a tiny home community to help combat homelessness among youth in Franklin County, starting with this first home.

It’s a project founded by Bonita Thompkins.

“Recently, there was a report of 46 homeless youth in one school district in Franklin County, and I have got to imagine that the actual number is probably double,” Thompkins said.

Thompkins says she learned of youth homelessness firsthand while teaching at a high school.

“I noticed that there...

Commissioners at the July 25th Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting heard a presentation by Planning Director Michelle Miller to discuss the proposed legal language and specifications for tiny home communities.

Miller said that the provisions for individual tiny homes on lots where mobile homes are allowed are still being considered, but they were not discussed at this meeting.

Focusing on the development of tiny home communities, Miller identified the need for tiny home communities based on affordability, providing more housing options, and infill development.

Miller’s department established a new Planned Development Project-Tiny...

This essay is based on an interview with Stefanie Mortenson, a 53-year-old HR director who moved from Virginia to Escape Tampa Bay Village's The Oaks community, a tiny home neighborhood near Tampa, Florida. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

My priorities changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 1998, I moved to Alexandria, Virginia about 10 miles from Washington, DC for a better career opportunity. I was a month shy of 25 years in Virginia and working at the US Senate Federal Credit Union — where I'm currently the director of human resources — when I moved to my new tiny home in Escape Tampa Bay Village's The Oaks...

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

Even before this summer, Beth Foy knew families who spent months — even close to a year — searching for a place to rent in Johnson.

“We certainly were in a situation where there is much more demand than stock,” said Foy, who chairs the town’s selectboard.

Then came July’s historic flooding, which battered the Lamoille County town of roughly 3,500. Two recent assessments of the flood’s impact there – one by the local floodplain administrator and state Division of Fire Safety mapping damage, another by a...

A new modular home factory being built in Boulder has stirred excitement as well as a healthy dose of controversy among members of the community.

The city announced Monday that construction on the factory is due to start this month. City officials who have championed the project say the factory — which is expected to eventually produce up to 50 permanently affordable homes every year — will be a game changer in terms of creating more affordable housing in Boulder. They also say it will provide an unparalleled hands-on learning experience for students in a local construction program.

However, numerous residents in nearby neighborhoods have...

MALIBU, CA — The Paradise Cove mobile home park — known for its celebrity residents and picturesque seaside locale — has a home for sale. Check out below why the New York Post once called the community "America's priciest trailer park."

Check out more information and plenty of photos below.

• Address: 167 Paradise Cove, Malibu, CA
• Price: $2950000
• Bedrooms: 3
• Bathrooms: 2
• Listing Description: A super buy in Paradise Cove, located in the desirable upper section of the park. This newer, custom-built, upgraded 3Bdrm, 2Bth, has it all! Open floor plan, high vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, tiled bathrooms and kitchen, top-of-the-line...

MARSHALL COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — A new, non-traditional, housing community could be on the way in Marshall County.

It would turn a former mobile home park into an upscale residential area.

The proposed plans are for 33 two-story homes made out of shipping containers that are meant to last 200 years.

Thomas Landgrebe got the idea for the homes after building the modular home museum in Elkhart, which is now in the RV hall of fame.

He wants to take the old Maple Leaf Mobile Home Park on Michigan Road, between LaPaz and Plymouth, and create affordable housing for the community.

“It will be very much like a condominium. With this, it'll be like...

PETALUMA -- Residents at a North Bay mobile home park say their landlord is retaliating against them for helping get new rent control ordinances passed in Petaluma. The tenants--all senior citizens--say they are terrified they could end up out on the streets.

The story begins in 2020 when the Youngstown Mobile Home Park was sold to new owners. Despite being a rent-controlled property, residents soon got a notice of rent increases of up to 40 percent.  

They fought the rent hike in arbitration and won, and then resident Jodi Johnson began lobbying for new city ordinances that would strengthen the rules around rent control. To her...

After repeated water problems and outages dating back to February, the Maine Center for Disease Control is calling for the out-of-state owners of a Wiscasset mobile home park to drill a new well that can keep up with use.

Whippoorwill Hill Mobile Home Park residents have reported unscheduled water shut-offs and poor water quality over the past seven months, saying they haven’t been able to shower, wash their clothes or flush their toilets on multiple occasions. The property’s well was installed in 2020 but has run dry several times.

Maine CDC spokesperson Lindsay Hammes said Whippoorwill is contracting to get two potable water...

According to an article by Kirbie Bennett and Jamie Wanzek in High Country News, a Colorado manufactured housing community offers “one model for how to preserve affordable housing, with the potential to reshape housing in the West in a way that allows residents to guide the discussion.”

When threatened with a buyout by a notorious institutional investor, residents of the Westside Mobile Home Park banded together to make their own offer. “With the support of Elevation Community Land Trust, Westside’s residents were able to purchase their park, becoming one of the six community land trusts in Colorado. It was the first time that Elevation...

OS ANGELES, Calif. – The Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), filed a civil complaint in the United States District Court for the Central District of California today against the operators of Oasis Mobile Home Park, located in the Eastern Coachella Valley in Southern California. The complaint alleges that the Administrator of the Estate of Scott Lawson and a corporation called Lopez to Lawson, Inc. failed to properly maintain and operate Oasis’ primary drinking water well, treatment and distribution systems and wastewater system, and failed to perform corrective measures to protect the health...

It’s common practice for A-listers to have trailers on set. A cozy mobile home-away-from-home outfitted with all the amenities they could need—packed into a sensible 600 or so square feet—is an oasis-like respite on long shoot days. Mobile homes also serve as secondary off-the-job home bases for some celebrities who’ve found themselves drawn in by the allure of an Airstream, the practicality of a downsized existence, or simply the freedom of an untethered dwelling that allows one to make themselves at home anywhere on and along the open road. Though they’re more strongly associated with a working-class lifestyle, there are mobile home...

City staff and researchers at the University of Texas looking to reduce housing costs have published their recommendations on policies for City Council to consider.

A memo published last week offers a broad overview of the current state of affordability and development costs in Austin. The analysis by the Development Services and Housing departments and UT’s LBJ School of Public Affairs was initiated following a 2021 resolution that directed the city manager to determine the causes of and possible solutions to Austin’s increasing housing costs.

The recommendations from the 2022 UT research paper “Local Affordable Housing Challenges:...

Not long ago, 63 families at Westside faced the threat of displacement. In...

A complaint and petition for a writ of mandamus (i.e., a request for a court order) has been filed in Alamance County civil superior court to compel the town of Green Level to turn over public records related to a rezoning decision for two mobile home parks decided at a special meeting on May 30, 2023.

The complaint and petition has been filed by the companies that own two mobile home parks within the town of Green Level’s jurisdiction: Personalized Village II, which owns Otter Creek Mobile Home Park at 2648 and 2606 East Simpson Road; and Green Level MHC, which owns the Green Level Mobile Home Community at 2156 James Boswell Road,...