When Western Reserve Land Conservancy (WRLC) in December 2021 purchased the 28.5-acre Euclid Beach Mobile Home Park on North Collinwood’s Lake Erie shoreline, WRLC senior vice president and director of thriving communities Matt Zone assured the approximately 139 residents with 150 mobile homes on the property that the purchase was made to save the property from a Dallas-based developer who planned to build high-rise apartments.

Zone and Cleveland ward 8 councilperson Mike Polensek assured the residents that the next steps would focus on brainstorming sessions to figure out how the land could best serve the residents and the larger...

Pines Trailer Park residents are holding out hope that a buyer might keep the property for mobile homes.

Residents failed in a drive to purchase the park, 103 Church Ave., Bradenton Beach.

The owner partnership, with Richard and William Jackson as officers, listed the 2.78-acre park for sale at $16 million in January but the price rose to at least $16.5 million.

By law, the partnership first had to offer the park to the resident owners.

Now the owners are entertaining offers from prospective buyers, a process operating under a veil of nondisclosure.

Bill Gorman, an agent representing the Pines Homeowners Association, would not disclose...

MOBERLY — Residents of Sarbaum Mobile Home Park at 1502 S. Morley are packing their belongings and looking for drivers to move their trailers.

In a letter dated April 10, the trailer park’s owner and manager, Michael Baker, told residents that he’s closing the park in August due to financial difficulties. Some tenants have consistently paid their rent over the years, but others have fallen behind. Baker can no longer meet operating expenses, the letter says.

Baker has covered shortfalls out of his own pocket, he said, but can no longer do so. In addition, the sewer system is over 60 years old and requires frequent, expensive repairs....

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Residents at Miramar Imperial Beach Mobile Home & RV Park are forced to leave every six months for a period before they can return to their vacated spot.

A new California law could impact how short-term trailer parks such as this one operate, preventing them from forcing people out twice a year.

Assemblyman David Alvarez’s proposed protections for RV owners passed its first legislative hurdle with unanimous support.

The bill comes out of the Miramar Imperial Beach Mobile Home and RV Park, where residents, as Jesse Marx reported last summer, have been forced to move in and out every six months before legal rights kick in. An earlier version of the bill only applied to Imperial Beach and National City but now applies to all mobile home parks throughout the state. 

The Imperial Beach park owners have said the move out policy is necessary to make repairs on site, but Alvarez framed it as an unfair business practice that’s going to...

Downsizing and tiny living started gaining ground in the early 2000s amid increasing environmental concerns. We've seen an uptick in popularity for tiny and mobile homes over the past few years, no doubt fueled by the worsening housing and economic crisis. Put simply, forced to cut down expenses and carbon footprints, people are looking at alternative housing solutions.

They include tiny houses – mobile homes that sit on trailers and can be towed from location to location, promising freedom to travel while working and, most importantly, an existence free of debt and stress. With the rising popularity of tiny living, we've seen a wider...

As of April 27, only 58 of the 521 residents at Candlewood Mobile Home Park in Mahomet had signed a lease from Kodiak Property Management, LLC.

For Candlewood residents, the problem appears to be threefold: some residents have not received a lease agreement from the management group; others have received different drafts of the agreement over the last month; then, for others, the terms and conditions within the lease are troublesome.

For Kodiak, its plate has been full with working on the necessary requirements for the mobile home park to pass the Illinois Public Health Department inspection on May 3. Passing the inspection would give...

About 40 east Blaine residents let Blaine City Council know they opposed a proposed change to the city code that would allow large manufactured home parks in east Blaine.
The residents packed into overflow seats at the start of the April 24 city council meeting at city hall. One by one, just over 20 residents took to the podium and spoke for over an hour during public comment period. Concerns were raised on a variety of topics, including potential lack of affordability and landownership, loss of city property tax revenue and watershed impacts.
Last year, the developers of East Harbor Hills requested a zoning text amendment to city code that...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — At least 30 Tallahassee mobile home owners have sought legal assistance after hundreds of dollars in lot rent hikes from new landlords at Lake Bradford Mobile Home Park.

"We can't start over," homeowner Catheryn Smith said through tears, as she and neighbors at Lake Bradford Mobile Home Park are having to consider major life changes due to the increase. "I moved here in 1994, which is almost 30 years," she said.

New owners took over the park in Aprill of last year and, Smith says, began sending notices about the increasing rent. "Every time you get a notice , it's threatening eviction as the end result," said...

WOOSTER − City Council is considering two pieces of legislation that would change how the city uses R-5 zones — manufactured home districts that allow for mobile home parks.

The first would revive standards for manufactured homes in R-5 districts while the second would grant the city more authority to enforce maintenance codes in those districts.

Manufactured housing:Wooster council OKs expansion of manufactured homes in existing mobile home parks

Both pieces of legislation come three months after council voted to allow for the expansion of the prefabricated dwellings within R-5 zones.

The city previously banned such expansions in 2018...

Negotiations have failed between the land owner and the homeowners in the Pines Trailer Park in Bradenton Beach.

A resident, who requested anonymity, informed The Islander of the development April 20.

Throughout the negotiations over the sale of the bayfront mobile home park at 103 Church Ave., residents have been instructed by attorneys not to publicly discuss matters.

The partnership, with Richard and William Jackson as officers, listed the park for sale Jan. 25 for $16 million.

As required by state law, they first offered the park to the HOA members for purchase.

The Florida Mobile Home Act requires a park owner to give 45 days’ notice...

OCEANSIDE — The city is considering waiving registration fees to ease rising cost burdens on mobile home park owners and residents.

While mobile home park owners are required to pay the fee, they can pass on half of that fee to park residents. The collected fees go toward a fund that helps the city pay to administer Chapter 16B of its municipal code, also known as the Manufactured Homes Fair Practices ordinance. 

First formed in the 1980s, the ordinance provides a rent control element that caps rent increases for only mobile home parks in the city and ensures park owners receive a fair profit. Oceanside is one of the few cities in the...

There is a trailer park in America where celebrities such as Matthew McConaughey, Pamela Anderson, Stevie Nicks, Minnie Driver and Sarah Paulson have all called home in recent years.

It's known as Paradise Cove Mobile Park and it's located in an exclusive section of Malibu where Pacific Ocean-side mansions go for hundreds of millions of dollars. 

The park holds 265 mobile homes across 85 acres, many of which are rusted and aged thanks to decades of ocean winds and California sun, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

Residents of an oceanfront mobile-home park in South Florida rejected a $503 million buyout offer from The Kolter Group. 

Nestled between some of the country’s most expensive ZIP codes, the Briny Breezes community spans 43 acres, housing 488 mobile trailers on a barrier island in Palm Beach County. Structured somewhat like a co-op, each homeowner owns between 20 and 80 shares in the Briny Breezes township.

The proposal — which totaled $502,496,000 — averaged out to just over $1 million per owner, but residents deemed it too low and rejected the bid last Thursday, the Coastal Star first reported.

Kolter executives “thought they were going...

It’s no surprise that the listing for 247 Paradise Cove Road, a three-bedroom property currently on the market for $5.85 million, opens with a description of the views. “This open-concept home is located on one of Paradise Coves’ most desirable streets, offering stunning ocean views and ultraclose proximity to direct beach access,” the Zillow page reads. Of course, this makes sense given the home itself isn’t a mansion, a villa, or even an architectural gem—it’s a trailer. 

Located within Paradise Cove Mobile Home Park, the Malibu house’s neighborhood is widely considered the priciest trailer park in the country. The home at 247 Paradise...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Residents at a northeast Fresno mobile home park have been given notice that they have one year to sell or move their trailers out of the La Hacienda Mobile Estates, formerly known as Trails End Mobile Home Park.

Now, tenants are worried they'll have nowhere to go and will end up homeless.

"I don't think there's a place in this town I can afford to rent on my income - on my social security," Leslie Wright said.

Wright is worried about where she's going to live this time next year.

About a week ago, she received a letter from the La Hacienda Mobile Estates saying the company was terminating the tenancy to...

After more than three years of planning, persistence, manual labor and financial investment in a dream that would not die, affordable housing activist Glen Gibellina wants the world to know about his shipping container home.

Looking at it, you wouldn’t know that the attractive split-level home started out as three shipping containers manufactured in China.

Gibellina bought two 40-by-8-foot containers for $5,000 each and a 20-by-8 container for $3,800 and picked them up at the Port of Tampa.

They are “one-trippers,” containers that were used to transport products only once. They make a better tiny home because they haven’t been through the...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - State leaders are exploring options for homeless Vermonters who may lose their emergency housing this summer.

With no more federal funding available to pay for emergency hotel rooms, the proposed state budget includes funding until the end of June, when the eligibility criteria will change. Housing advocates are worried about a looming wave of people being kicked out on the street.

Lawmakers in the House Humans Services Committee earlier in the session floated a plan to house Vermonters in vacant mobile homes and Governor Phil Scott says the idea has merit.

“There are a number of lots in some of the mobile home...

Recreational vehicles are a common feature in mobile home parks in Baldwin County, despite not being allowed under the county subdivision regulations.

That’s the argument that Steve Huffaker, who owns Pine Grove Estates, a mobile home park outside of Bay Minette, is making. Huffaker has had his park for 30 years and decided that he wanted to add a few spots for recreational vehicles in his park, for construction workers hired to work on the new Novelis aluminum recycling and rolling plant being built in the area.

“With the new aluminum plant coming in, I wanted to create RV spots for people to park their RVs,” Huffaker said. “These aren’t...

The wildfire had already burned 160 square miles of northern New Mexico forest last spring when it suddenly surged ahead, reducing to ash the cozy cabin David Martinez had built for himself more than two decades earlier.

Martinez, now 64, had fled days before, one of 15,000 people ordered to leave as the fire spread.

He spent the next three months sleeping near the edge of the fire in his pickup truck, his physical and mental health declining from the smoke, stress and lack of sleep. 

Desperate for shelter, he spent $5,000 or so of the emergency aid he’d received from the Federal Emergency Management Agency on a down payment for a...

Carson will create a mobile home park overlay district, adding an extra layer of protection to preserve what some residents have called their last bastion of affordable housing options.

The City Council approved the overlay district this week.

Essentially, only mobile home parks will be allowed in that district. If property owners within that area want to redevelop a piece of land on which a mobile home park sits, they will have to apply for and receive a zoning change from the city, and provide a comparable number of affordable housing units for the residents there.

There are currently 21 mobile home parks in Carson. They “constitute a...

Mobile home renters who were watching legislation in  meant to enact some  will have to continue waiting before they see relief — at least coming from the statehouse.

From Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance, is  from increasing more than 3% plus the percentage of change in cost of living, or 5% annually, whichever is lower. It would not preempt any local ordinance that may offer even stronger protections for renters, Muratsuchi said.

The idea behind the bill is to protect lower-income and seniors on fixed incomes from losing their mobile homes as rents across...

The Urban Grove manufactured home park in St. Anthony traded hands late last month, according to a certificate of real estate value published last week.

The 32-unit park sits at 2501 Lowry Ave. NE in St. Anthony, about a mile north of the intersection of Interstate 35W and Northeast Stinson Boulevard. It’s at the location of once embattled Lowry Grove, a now-defunct mobile home park that was the source of a contentious debate and lawsuit centered on efforts to block redevelopment of the park.

The Village LLC, a company tied to Brad Hoyt’s Wayzata-based Continental Property Group, sold Urban Grove for nearly $8.8 million on March 31. The...