BENTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WNDU) - The site of a former trailer park is poised to become a senior living community in Benton Township.

A sign buried behind a mangled fence and overgrown grass is all that’s left of Crystal Trailer Park.

Benton Township now owns the 10-acre plot of land.

It is in the process of creating a senior housing complex that would cater to people with a moderate income.

There would be 80 to 90 one story apartments and a community center.

Cathy Yates, the supervisor of Benton Charter Township, says the complex is needed.

“Some people are living on second and third floors, and even in some places without an...

After the school bus swings by Aspen-Basalt Mobile Home Park, kids spill out onto the playground in the center of the neighborhood: kicking around a soccer ball, lobbing a volleyball and narrowly avoiding windshields.

It's been this way for decades, said resident Lorena Vargas. She lives in the park with her husband and their two daughters, right next to her in-laws.

“That's something that you find throughout the mobile home park. It's pretty multi-generational,” she said. “The people we grew up with are now having their kids there, and so our kids are growing up together.”

But in March, residents of Aspen-Basalt and Mountain Valley...

BLUE ISLAND, Ill. (WLS) -- Dozens of residents in south suburban Blue Island could soon be without homes.

The city said it's shutting down an embattled mobile home park after years of unpaid water bills and code violations.

Thursday is the deadline the city of Blue Island has given to the owners of Forest View Mobile Home Park to come up with a plan to shut the property down.

Officials have said the city has spent two years trying to get management to clean up its act. Its residents are now caught in the middle, unsure where they will go.

The park is currently made up of empty lots, broken up streets and abandoned and stripped-down...

The building would rise eight stories in an emerging neighborhood.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Find another solution to cool your home — that’s what the owners of trailers at Countryside Village in South Bend have been told since at least September of last year.

And come tomorrow (July 1), people living inside those trailers face a major deadline: get rid of their window A/C units, or face violations and be forced out of their homes.

Many people in the mobile home park own their trailers but pay a lot rent to YES Communities, which owns hundreds of parks across the nation. The company’s community guidelines that tenants are instructed to sign along with their lease states window A/C units are not...

San Jose is updating language in its rent control policy due to mobile home park landlords illegally raising prices on tenants living in RVs.

The city’s decades-old mobile home rent policy states property owners cannot raise rents more than 7% without city approval — but Western Trailer Park disregarded it on the grounds that recreational vehicles are not mobile homes. Housing Director Erik Soliván updated the policy earlier this month to clarify RVs are considered mobile homes on mobile home lots. RV residents live in 15 of the 58 mobile home parks within San Jose.

Jeff Scott, spokesperson for the housing department, said the official...

A long-troubled mobile home park just up the hill from Soquel Village is facing an uncertain future after it was purchased out of bankruptcy earlier this year by a company with a history of hiking rents and attempting to close parks, raising concerns about a key piece of affordable housing in the community.

Stockton-based Harmony Communities owns or operates dozens of mobile home parks throughout the western United States, most of which are in California and Oregon. It purchased Soquel Gardens Mobile Home Park in February, following years of persistent issues with the park and its facilities, culminating in the state revoking its permit...

In the regional transportation commission’s ongoing pursuit of a rail and trail system, one of the starkest dividing lines can be found between two Mid-County mobile parks. 

Literally: From above, the east-to-west tracks of the old Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line look like a series of vertebrae bisecting the properties of the Blue & Gold Star Mobile Home Park and the Castle Mobile Estates park. But also politically: Between the two parks, parts of homes or fence lines on 44 lots encroach into the rail line property, which is owned by the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission. In order for the RTC to build its long-envisioned Read More

Dawn Beailieu has called Friendly Village, a mobile home park in Gorham, ME, her home for nearly 30 years. It’s quiet, affordable, and a safe place for seniors like her to age in place.

But a letter she received this spring threatened to upend that stability overnight. It revealed that an out-of-state developer wants to buy Friendly Village—along with seven other mobile home parks spread across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York—for a combined $87.5 million. Friendly Village’s slice of that deal alone is valued at $22 million, and under Maine law, residents have just 60 days to organize and make a counteroffer if they hope to keep...

Two forces will drive stock market returns over the next decade, and I’m purposely overweighting my investments in these categories.

The first catalyst is AI, which is disrupting many businesses and will generate substantial wealth for those who embrace technology. In a few days, I will be writing a detailed report on the best ways to invest in AI.

The second catalyst is the so-called silver tsunami, or aging population, that’s a huge demand tailwind which stands to benefit from demographics with Gen X (and soon elder millennials) aging into the cohort (ages 50-77), which is expected to gain 6.4 million people (+6% cumulatively) over the...

A proposed redevelopment of the Provo Towne Centre is sparking a myriad of questions and concerns among Provo residents, most specifically those who live within close proximity of the mall.

In May, the Daily Herald was the first to report that property owner Brixton Capitol submitted an entitlement application to the city that outlines plans to transform the indoor shopping mall into a mixed-use development that would include retail, dining, entertainment and housing.

The project is in partnership with Provo-based real estate development and investment firm PEG Cos.

The plan, which is still in the conceptual phase, was presented for the...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The Forest Park Mobile Home community in northeast Charlotte is at risk of being rezoned.

Developers are wanting to move in and make room for nearly 400 residential units, townhomes, and retail space. Which means each of the families that call Forest Park home, would have to leave.

When you enter the Forest Park neighborhood, you immediately get the allure. It’s quiet, plenty of shade from trees and enough space on each lot to really make it your own.

It sits on more than 19 acres and is less than 20 minutes from center city— that also makes it prime real estate to developers.

According to the people who live...

In the past several weeks, four local governments and two private businesses have given written commitments of at least $500,000 or more to two mobile home parks listed for sale in Basalt and Carbondale.

Aspen committed $3 million, as did Pitkin County. Meanwhile, Snowmass committed $1 million, Atlantic Aviation $1 million, Basalt $500,000, and SkiCo $500,000. Between just those five donations, there is $9 million on the table. More Roaring Fork Valley local governments are expected to consider committing money in the coming weeks. 

That substantial sum alone will not be enough to buy the mobile home parks, as the owners are asking for a...

SABATTUS (WGME) — Mobile homeowners at Begin Estates in Sabattus are scrambling to get help after receiving notice that the rent they pay for their lots will increase by $150 per month.

The increase comes just as a new state law aimed at protecting residents from extreme rent hikes is set to take effect.

“They don’t care. They don’t care about the residents,” Suzanne Armstrong, who has lived at Begin Estates in Sabattus for 22 years, said.

Armstrong and her neighbors received a letter last week informing them that lot rent, which covers the land beneath their homes plus water and sewer costs, will increase to $580 per month starting Oct....

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Federal mortgage giants are helping corporate investors acquire mobile home communities across Florida, leading to dramatic lot rent increases, a News 6 investigation revealed.

Florida leads the nation with 235 private equity-owned mobile home parks containing nearly 56,000 lots, according to data from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a nonprofit research organization.

News 6 has been investigating rising lot rents at mobile home parks across Florida. Residents tell us corporations are buying their communities then jacking up the lot rent. In a lot of these mobile home parks, residents own the home but lease...

BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. — Mobile home park closures aren’t just displacing people — they’re erasing entire communities.

According to The Eviction Lab, each park’s closure further decreases the already scarce supply of affordable housing. Now, 83 families at Pines Trailer Park are experiencing that reality. Still reeling from the aftermath of back-to-back hurricanes Helene and Milton, they’re now battling a new storm — a legal one — as eviction notices appear on their doors.

The park’s owner is proceeding with plans to close the park for good, forcing many tenants, including Jason Woodall, to find new accommodations. Woodall, who just moved...

The owner of the Forest Park Mobile Homes has decided to sell the property where 60 trailer homes are located. Developers who submitted the rezoning request hope to build roughly 400 apartments and add 25,000 square feet of commercial space.

It’s not rocket science that 400 apartment units is a higher use of land than 60 mobile home spaces. That’s always been the limitation to the mobile home industry – you can’t stack them.

Off Prosperity Church Road nestled near newly built townhomes, apartments and shopping centers sits a community fighting for its existence amid the weight of development pressures.

Last May, Leonel Chavez and many of his neighbors living in the Forest Park Mobile Home Park in northeast Charlotte were shocked when they received a letter from the property owner, Nesbit Oil Company, notifying them of their decision to sell after nearly 60 years.

A bill to further limit annual rent increases in many manufactured home parks and for floating homes in marinas has passed in both chambers and now heads to Gov. Tina Kotek.

House Bill 3054 passed Thursday out of the Senate 17-10 on largely party lines, with three excused votes.

If signed, the bill would restrict yearly rent increases in parks and marinas with more than 30 spaces to 6%. Smaller parks and marinas would still be subject to Oregon’s existing rent control law, which limits yearly increases to 7% plus inflation or 10%, whichever is less.

Manufactured home park residents typically own their homes but rent the land on which it...