NEWFANE — A new residential development is in the works to replace a longtime mobile home park in Wrights Corners.

The development, Wrights Country Cottages, will consist of 19 stick built homes replacing almost all of the existing mobile homes at 6520 Ridge Road.

The stick built rental homes will be single-story, permanent structures sized between 700 and 800 square feet, according to property owner Bart Adams. He estimated the project cost is about $1.3 million.

The stick built houses are “basically about the same size as the mobile homes that were there,” Adams said.

The development will primarily house tenants over the age of 55.

“I...

It looks like the mobile home park at Dotsero will have broadband internet service in the near future.

During a Monday presentation to the Eagle County Board of Commissioners, Scott Lingle, the county’s director of innovation and technology, briefed the board about efforts to bring better service to the county’s rural areas.

A recent request for proposals was sent to internet service providers. Three bids came back. The least expensive bid came from Vero Broadband. The total project is expected to cost about $380,000, which includes both the mobile home park and the Two Rivers neighborhood. Eagle County will pay 75% of that amount, but...

Through her search for a new apartment, one question on rental applications seemed to jump off the page at Debbi Halsted: Have you been evicted?

The answer was no — at least not yet.

But over the past few weeks, she had been worried her answer would change if she couldn’t pay her rent. Her Clinton landlord wanted to raise the payment from $650 a month to $1,250, more than a 90% increase. Halsted is on a fixed income and knew she couldn’t afford that rent. Even if she opted not to pay any other bill, her monthly income is just $1,119, which would leave her $131 short.

“There’s nothing right now that I see that I can afford. So what do you...

House Republicans objected to , arguing that the state shouldn't be setting mandates on manufactured home community owners that could push them out of business, further reducing Delaware’s affordable housing stock.

The First State Manufactured Housing Association, representing mobile home park operators, also expressed concerns about the changes one year after setting the other requirements for the industry. 

But Democrats argued that the changes were needed to offset the "unintended consequences" of the 2022 law indexing rent increases to inflation. 

"The residents of manufactured home communities are some of the most...

A new federal law proposed by three U.S. senators, including Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal, aims to protect mobile home owners. The law would curtail extreme rent increases and other predatory operator tactics.

In recent years, mobile home communities across the country continue the shift from locally owned and operated to hedge fund management.

Dave Delohery, president of the CT Mobile Homeowners Alliance, has lived in mobile homes for about a decade.

Delohery is a resident of the former Jensen mobile home community in Southington. It was purchased in 2019 by Sun Communities, the nation’s second largest manufactured home...

Two years ago, residents of a north Fresno trailer park placed their hopes in local leaders to help them out of a bad situation.

Local leaders, namely the Fresno City Council and a Fresno Superior Court judge, only made things worse.

Today, roughly half as many people live in the former Trails End Mobile Home Park compared to before government “help” arrived. More than a dozen were evicted by new predatory landlords scheming to turn a quick profit off their plight. Those who remain also face eviction in less than a year, but not before being threatened with rent hikes and all sorts of unpleasantries in the meantime.

How did this happen?...

The Planning Commission is slated to consider changes to zoning in Boulder City that would allow for “tiny homes” (typically less than 400 square feet in size) to co-exist with mobile homes.

From the beginning of its history, Boulder City has been a place where home sizes were mostly on the smaller end of the scale compared to housing in other places. A typical home built for a dam worker in the 1930s was based on the “shotgun shacks” common in the South and could reportedly be put up by two carpenters in just 12 hours. As more permanent housing began to take shape in the 1940s, typical home sizes were between 800 and 1,000 square feet....

DOZENS of residents of a mobile home park designed for seniors in Nevada have been evicted from their village, leaving many scrambling to find a new home. 

The Pair-A-Dice Mobile Home Park in North Las Vegas officially closed down earlier this month. 

Approximately 88 units were occupied in the park, according to Clark County data obtained by local Fox affiliate KVVU.

Following the notice that the village would be shutting down, the county contacted approximately 60 of the tenants and assisted them with relocation. 

However, many were left to find a new home on their own. 

“I was baffled. I mean, and then they don’t help people,” resident...

More than 20 million Americans live in manufactured housing — mobile homes — according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s more than in public housing and federally subsidized rental housing combined.

Since manufactured homes make up a significant part of the nation’s housing stock and provide a viable affordable housing option, the Rural Housing Coalition of New York believes manufactured homes should play a larger role in discussions, policies and plans to address the ongoing housing shortage.

The Rural Housing Coalition commissioned a report — The Role of Manufactured Housing in New York’s Affordable Housing Crisis — that lays out policy...

CAMPBELL, CA — Come see this beautiful mobile home in the family community of Timber Cove.

A mobile home park between Miami and El Portal could soon be the site of a massive mixed-use project anchored by nearly 4,000 apartments.

Affiliates managed by David Mordekhay in Hollywood and Tom Grinberg and Gary Otto in Miami are seeking Miami-Dade County’s permission to create a special district that would allow the trio to tear down the Soar Mobile Home Park at 8050 Northwest Miami Court. 

The 22-acre trailer park would be replaced by 3,990 multifamily units, 250,000 square feet of retail, 107,800 square feet of offices and 312 hotel rooms, according to an application filed with the county. 

The project is not a sure thing: It would...

ARNOLDS PARK — Renee Comstock thought she'd found home.

Five years ago, she used the lion's share of her savings to buy a 366-square-foot mobile home and lease a lot at the Okoboji Trailer Park and Storage at 244 Highway 71. When she was a kid growing up near Denison, Iowa, Comstock and her family would make the two-hour journey up to Okoboji in the summer to fish, ride the wooden "Legend Roller Coaster" at the Arnolds Park Amusement Park and visit the historic Abbie Gardner Sharp Cabin.

"And then I just decided I’m going to live up here," Comstock said. 

First she settled in nearby Spirit Lake, Iowa, and spent about 20 years at Polaris...

Warren resident John Lucero just wants the area surrounding his home in the Landmark Estates Mobile Home Community to be a safe area for his two-year-old son.

The good news, Lucero said, is that Open Management, the property management company currently overseeing day-to-day operations of the community as well as large scale projects planned for the next couple of years, has followed through on its promise to remove old, abandoned mobile homes that were dangerous or in extreme disrepair.

“I was glad to see it,” said Lucero, who has lived in Landmark Estates for four years. “But the contractors that did the demolition left a mess.”

Lucero...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that applications are open for the $25 million Enhancement & Innovation (E&I) competitive grant program that aims to accelerate the clean energy transition through demonstration projects. These projects will not only support low-income homes by making them more comfortable and safer, but they are also an opportunity to explore new weatherization techniques and technology and showcase best practices that could possibly be emulated and adopted more widely among other weatherization projects. 

The E&I grant program...

Rancho Fullerton Mobile Home Park, owned by the Nicholas Family, has sued an elderly couple. The senior couple, the Kims, will have to pay the lawyer fees and also have been threatened with eviction. So how did this happen, and what could have been done differently?

The Kims moved to Fullerton on May 26, 2022, to escape the Texas heat. They retired to the 55+ community of Rancho Fullerton (no, not the infamous Rancho La Paz with its predatory owner John Saunders – this is a different senior mobile home park on the southwest side of town). The Kims purchased their mobile home and never failed to pay the park’s $950 monthly space rent. The...

As Novato grapples with budget deficits, a resident has offered to pay $30 million to purchase a city-owned mobile home park that city staff say could pose future financial problems.

The City Council is set to meet in closed session on Tuesday to discuss the proposal by Dean Moser to purchase the Marin Valley Mobile Country Club at 100 Marin Valley Drive. Moser is the founder of HCA Property Management Inc. in Novato and said the company owns 17 mobile home parks on the West Coast.

Moser made his pitch at the City Council’s budget hearing on June 13, when city officials discussed how to cover a projected $1.3 million budget deficit and...

Ram Realty Advisors wants to develop a 400-unit multifamily mixed-use project on the site of a mobile home park near North Miami.

Palm Beach Gardens-based Ram Realty, through an affiliate, has the Biscayne Breeze Mobile Home Park site at 11380 Biscayne Boulevard, and adjacent properties at 11320 and 11340 Biscayne Boulevard, under contract for an undisclosed price, according to an application filed to Miami-Dade County last week. The 7-acre property also is home to Blue Runner Seafood restaurant, Summer Day Garden Nursery and The Body strip club. 

The proposal is for an eight-story residential project, with 50 units of the 400 designated...

The City of Portsmouth and New Hampshire Community Loan Fund held a ribbon cutting Tuesday, June 20 on a project including five new affordable homes and significant site and infrastructure improvements at Woodbury Cooperative, a resident-owned manufactured-home park near downtown Portsmouth.  

The initiative to finance and support infrastructure improvements including water, sewer and paving upgrades was undertaken by the City’s Community Development Block Grant Program staff in conjunction with the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund. The ribbon-cutting marked the completion of five years of effort to ensure that residents of Woodbury...

This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commitment to identify solutions to Utah’s biggest challenges through the work of the Innovation Lab.

Kari Taylor Schreck’s home, which she shares with her husband Jay, is filled with various shades of blues — from a deep navy to a bright turquoise. Paintings of desert landscapes with endless horizons line the walls. It is bright and cool and outside each window there’s a view of the red rock that millions of tourists travel to the town each year to see.

The Moab home is not only a quiet and lovely refuge from the desert heat, but part of a growing archipelago of affordable dwellings...

NORWOOD — Just after Thanksgiving, Pedro and Maria Jorge were ready to move. 

The Telluride workers from Guatemala were living in a relative’s tiny apartment, crammed into a single bedroom with their 10-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter and an infant. They quietly came home to the third-floor unit when it was dark and left early, hoping to avoid scrutiny that might land their uncle in trouble. The kids could not play outside. 

Jorge had recently lost his restaurant job and the house that came with it. He landed another restaurant job quickly. As did Maria. But housing was elusive. 

After several months wedged into a single bedroom, the...

Residents of a mobile home park in Paramount fear that they may soon be homeless after being served eviction notices.

The new owners of Elijah Park, formerly known as The Wheel Trailer Park, in Paramount have raised rent for families. Tenants say they’re now expected to pay double, and for some even triple, what they were paying before.

When tenants told the new owners they could not afford the rent increases, the residents received a notice of eviction.

“I can’t sleep at night,” said a worried teen in an interview with Telemundo 52. “My family doesn’t know what we’re going to do.”

Many have been living in the RV park for years. Some...

The news that would upend Griselda Cano’s life came casually.

The same letter was tacked to every homeowner’s door that balmy September day. Its message, packed with legal jargon, spread quickly: The owner of their Clearwater mobile home park had new plans for the land.

In six months, they would be evicted.

“One never imagines such a thing,” said Cano, 34, in Spanish. “It’s such a big place, with so many families.”

But what was unfolding at Capri Mobile Home Park has become a familiar story.

When land for development is scarce and a housing market is hot, mobile home parks are particularly vulnerable to closures, housing experts say. Over...

A bill that would lower rent for people living in manufactured housing communities seems headed to the House floor.

House Bill 212, sponsored by House Majority Leader Rep. Valerie Longhurst, D-Bear, would prohibit manufactured home community owners from increasing rent by more than 5% each year and require community owners to submit annually to the The Delaware Manufactured Home Relocation Authority the number of people using rent assistance.

While the bill only received four of the required seven votes to be sent out of House Housing Committee, it was to be circulated among members who were absent Wednesday because of a heavy committee...