Houston-based Live Lone Star Communities unveiled the first of several manufactured home communities planned across Texas as it aims to provide affordable homes in a setting that incorporates elements found in upscale master-planned communities.

The developer on Tuesday provided a preview at The Landing at Pearland, a gated 55-acre community at 17730 County Road 127, near Pearland Regional Airport. The $34 million project includes plans for 420 home sites and is expected to open in April.

Harmony Communities, the property management company that purchased a troubled Fresno mobile home park, appears to have used a prank name as it worked on its PR issues. 

The Stockton-based company interfaced with Fresno-based media under the pseudonym “Heywood Jablóm,” presented as the director of communication and marketing, but a report from The Business Journal revealed that he does not exist and that the name is merely a play on a play-on-words sex joke.

The backstory: Harmony Communities stepped in as the buyer of the troubled Trails End Mobile Home Park in north Fresno last year for $1.7 million. 

• But the company faced stiff...

At Thursday’s marathon session to set Santa Rosa City Council's policy priorities for the year, several residents showed up to remind officials the recent rent control law governing mobile home parks remains unfinished.

“We have a real mess,” mobile home owner and longtime advocate Roger McConnell said during public comment. ”This has gone on and on...We need help. We need to get this done. Please.”

On Dec. 6, the council updated a decades-old law restricting how much mobile home park owners can raise rent each year on the land under residents’ homes.

Previously, Santa Rosa’s mobile home rent control, governed by different laws than other...

Mobile homes have come a long way. Despite their reputation as a last resort for desperate homebuyers who can’t afford a “traditional” home, these prefabricated structures are not all depressing metal boxes. They can be stylish, well designed, and extremely affordable options for a buyer looking to either downsize or get a foot in the housing market.

Today, mobile homes have interiors that are sometimes truly extraordinary. If you don’t believe us, check out this mobile home in the Hamptons that was recently sold for a record price of $3.75 million.

Spurred by that big buy, we perused listings nationwide to find seven stylish mobile homes...

Water that, for weeks, was sometimes off, is back on and, knock on wood, will stay on, a lawyer representing Whippoorwill Mobile Home Park’s management firm, Maine Real Estate Management (MREM), said. According to attorney Michael Harman of Bloomer Russell Beaupain in Bangor, pumps at the fully occupied, 31-unit park on Route 27 in Wiscasset repeatedly kicked off due to a shortage of water and had to be manually restarted. 

Whippoorwill retained Maine Rural Water to do sonogram studies, as a leak was suspected, Harman explained in phone interviews and in letters March 2 and 7 to Maine Department of Professional and Financial Regulation...

BENTON, Ark. (KATV) — The sun isn't really shining at the Sunset Lake Mobile Home Park in Benton after the landlord terminated their leases.

From continuous issues on the property like a lack of water to now being forced from their homes.

"We've went weeks at a time without water and we get threatened that the water will be off longer if we say anything," said tenant Jennifer Aloway.

Close to 100 tenants receiving a notice that said the landlord is terminating their lease in 30 days.

President Biden believes that everyone deserves to live in a safe and affordable home. Whether you rent or own, having a place to live that you can afford in a neighborhood with opportunities is the foundation for so much else in life.

It’s also the foundation for so much else in our economy. A lack of quality affordable housing hinders the job market and holds back economic growth by making it harder for workers to access good-paying jobs. It drives up costs for families and inflationary pressures. It also increases commutes and inefficient energy consumption, which exacerbates climate change. And a lack of affordable housing...

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and our colleagues on the Phoenix City Council have an opportunity to join our efforts to keep more than 130 families out of homelessness.

It should be an easy choice, but it will require real leadership.

This past week, we worked to pass protections for residents facing imminent eviction at three mobile home parks in Phoenix: Periwinkle, Weldon Court and Las Casitas, now called Beacon.

These protections hinge on creating a zoning designation that would keep these properties as mobile home parks. This would allow residents – like elementary student Daniel Ochoa and his five siblings, and U.S. Army veteran Gerald...

Attorney General William Tong has sent a letter to Sun Communities, Inc. management, opening an inquiry into longstanding property management concerns at Beechwood Community mobile manufactured home park on Route 81, according to a release issued by his office. The manufactured home park has been the epicenter of complaints by residents who claim a steady rise in rentals fees and the reduction of services has placed many residents on fixed incomes in a position where they may not be able to afford to stay in their homes.

Residents of Beechwood and several other area home parks owned by Michigan-headquartered Sun Communities...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Public comment is now open on a proposal to turn a mobile home park into a resident-owned community in Missoula.

The area is Bonnie's Place in the Franklin to Fort neighborhood.

In a meeting on Monday night, Missoula City Council considered granting more than $181,000 to a Montana nonprofit to help buy up the park.

Neighborworks Montana is leading the project with an estimated budget of just under $3 million.

The deal would preserve housing for 28 households that rent or own homes in the park.

According to city officials, if Bonnie's Place isn't purchased by March 21, it will be sold to an outside buyer and likely...

In the summer of 1998, Ken Hilderbrandt was contemplating buying a bigger boat — or a beachfront trailer on a wave-swept bluff in Montauk overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. 

“There was a [for-sale] sign on the window, rotted off,” Hilderbrandt, 85, told The Post, recalling the dilapidated trailer sitting on a 1,972-square-foot lot of land within Montauk Shores, the former seaside campsite for working-class vacationers, locals and surfers. Hilderbrandt, who owns a jet-ski rental business in Bellport, saw the potential. Sure, it was a fixer-upper off a dirt road — but the million-dollar ocean views pulled him in like a riptide. The asking...

When my husband and I carefully planned for our retirement, we didn’t anticipate rent gouging. I have been a nurse for 43 years. I’m still working for Veterans Affairs as a nurse case manager. When my husband retired from his career as a business owner in 2019, we sold our home in Salmon Creek to downsize and cut back on our expenses, in anticipation of the need to make ends meet on a fixed income.

We moved to Woodland into a manufactured home we bought. When we moved here the monthly rent for space in this park was $685 a month. When we signed the paperwork, the property management said our rent won’t be increased within the first year....

OLYMPIA — Whether you call it rent control or stabilization, the bill cleared a hurdle Friday as the 2023-2025 state legislative session approached the halfway point.

Two bills friendly to tenants and manufactured-mobile (MMH) homeowners were pushed ahead with “do pass” committee recommendations forwarded to their respective Senate and House rules committees, with the March 8 deadline to make it out of their chamber of origin fewer than two weeks away.

Friday was the tipping point for bills to pass out of committees from fiscal, Senate Ways and Means and Transportation committees.

One housing-related proposal that got the go-ahead adds...

The clock is ticking on the future of a bayside community in Bradenton Beach.

Homeowners in the Pines Trailer Park, 103 Church Ave., Bradenton Beach, must decide: Will they buy the park?

The Jackson Partnership LLLP of Bradenton, which lists Richard and William Jackson as partners, owns the land-lease community. In this case, the land lease allows the owner of the mobile home to lease the land where the home is situated. The most common land-lease communities are manufactured home communities.

The partnership made the homeowners association an offer Jan. 25 to buy the park for $16 million, according to some residents.

The offer triggered...

MANCHESTER — Several months ago, when more than a dozen state agency officials came to the Manchester Community Library to talk about ways towns could use federal American Rescue Plan Act dollars, interim Town Manager Leslie Perra and town Assessor Gordon Black were in attendance and asking questions about how those dollars might help the town extend sewer service up Main Street.

It paid off — to the tune of as much as $603,756 of the cost of running sewer service and water, from the library north to the Manchester Mobile Home Park. Word arrived Monday afternoon that the town had been awarded the grant, Black said.

That sum, or 20 percent...

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San Rafael R.V. Park moves to evict tenants in wake of Ninth Circuit Court decision

Nearly all residents of the R.V. Park of San Rafael, in California, received eviction notices in early February after the property owner, K&M Family Trust, lost a rent battle in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Donna L. Chessen, trustee of the K&M Family Trust, argued that the City of San Rafael misapplied its Mobilehome Rent Stabilization Ordinance (“MRSO”) to her property, the R.V. Park of San Rafael, representing an illegal “taking.” A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit disagreed.

The court ruled that San Rafael’s MRSO...

The Cheney City Council will introduce a zoning ordinance on Tuesday night that will put residents of the North Cheney Mobile Home Park in the crosshairs.

The ordinance would rezone a lot located off State Highway 904 for mixed-use development, worrying some residents at the mobile home park that it’s just the first step before they are ultimately evicted.

“I don’t want to live in a tent in Spokane,” said Douglas Brunell, a 73-year-old resident and Air Force veteran who bought a mobile home in 2006 and has lived at the park for the past 17 years.

Plans for the property are “kind of to be determined,” said Clifton Trimble, land use planner...

GILBERT, Ariz., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Roots Management Group has partnered with DoorDash's Project DASH to deliver canned foods and dry goods to Roots residents in need in Arizona manufactured housing communities. Project DASH is DoorDash's initiative to empower food banks, food pantries, and social impact organizations to leverage DoorDash logistics to increase access in their communities. Since Project DASH was launched in 2018, it has powered over 3.5 million deliveries of an estimated more than 60 million meals in the U.S. and Canada.

Roots surveyed residents in seven of its Treehouse Communities to determine how best to meet...

After investing $72 million in improvements at Fairfield Lake State Park over three decades, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is losing its lease.

The first rule in affordable housing is don’t lose what already exists. That backward step may soon happen in San Rafael, displacing low-income residents at 40 residences, unless the city acts decisively.

In a column last year, I suggested that an overlooked source of affordable rentals are mobile homes. There is no need for expensive construction. Traditionally, most park residents own their not-so-mobile structures, which are inexpensively customized for long-term living. All that’s needed is a concrete pad with drainage, water availability and electricity.

A recent incident at one Marin mobile home park is suddenly a hot topic. The...

WINTER HAVEN, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, February 20, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- “I actually grew up in one. Sorry for the offense,” said an email from Rob Carson to MHLivingNews. Beyond the apology for using the word 'trailer,' Carson was explaining that he grew up in what might be called 'a mobile home.' is a nationally syndicated WCBM talk radio personality and a Newsmax TV host. Carson was responding to concerns raised in a recent report on MHLivingNews that cited him and financial advice guru Dave Ramsey (Ramsey Solutions), among others, for purported factual and terminology errors about modern manufactured homes. Ramsey confirmed...