Mobile Home Park News Briefing

BEAUFORT — Tenants at a local mobile home park are scrambling for options after new management announced rent will double starting July 1.

Hilanda Mobile Home Park residents were notified in late May, via notices tucked into their screen doors, that their lot fees would jump on average from $350 to $700 a month.

This piece is part of our Stories of Belonging series, which highlights people who have stepped up to protect their communities from displacement — of residents, small businesses, and the culture that makes a place home.

It was a late September evening when Hurricane Helene reached the beaches of Florida in 2024. With winds up to 140 miles per hour and dozens of inches of rainfall, the devastating storm caused more than 2,000 landslides across the Appalachian Mountains. North Carolina, where thousands of residents were left without power for days, was especially hard hit.

When the Footprint Project showed up with mobile solar trailers and...

For decades the answer to inexpensive, safe housing for older retired Floridians was found in mobile home communities. Yet with Florida’s growth and an increasing and longer-living senior population, for many, that once sure answer is wrong.

The increase in investor-owned parks, parks purchased by condo developers and frequent natural disasters puts low-income and elderly Floridians who live in mobile home communities at risk of homelessness.

Drucilla M. Neeley, 72, is fortunate to still be able to work as a certified nursing assistant, she said. If not, she’s not sure how she could pay her bills and keep up with the lot rental on her...

A resident-led cooperative formed by the 98 households in Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park — located between Carbondale and Glenwood Springs — went under contract this week to buy the property for $23 million.

Their offer, submitted in early June, was accepted this week by the park’s corporate owner, Maryland-based Horizon Land Management.

“Todavía se me enchina la piel, y muy esperanzada de haber logrado esto,” said Maria Judith Alvarez, a resident of Cavern Springs. “Más de un año [hemos] trabajado en esto, así que me siento muy esperanzada, no solo por nuestras familias, sino por lo que pueda pasar en este valle.”

(“I still get...

Effort to cap rent increases

The backstory:

Kathy Emmendorfer moved into the Harvest View Community in Union Grove for two reasons. The first: it's peaceful.

"I like mowing my own lawn, having my backyard," said Emmendorfer. "I can sit out here every day and just chill until I go to work."

The second reason: the cost.

"The reason we moved here is because we could afford it and still actually have a life," Emmendorfer told Contact 6.

Emmendorfer says she's lived in the manufactured home community for nearly eight years. Lately the rent has gotten less affordable.

"The (ownership is) like, "we've got to raise it to keep up with the...

In a partnership with the Whitefish Community Foundation, NeighborWorks Montana is in the process of adding a fourth mobile home park to its roster of resident-owned communities (ROC) in Flathead County, which will preserve 55 households and prevent tenant displacement.

As part of a multimillion-dollar acquisition and preservation effort, the nonprofit organization is purchasing Twin Willows, which was formerly Twin Acres and Willow Glen mobile home parks, in south Kalispell.

Twin Willows is slated to become the fourth community-owned mobile home park in Flathead County, joining the Hideaway Community in Columbia Falls and the Morning...

We have received text from S. 4804: Manufactured Housing Lending Act. This bill was received on 2026-06-17, and currently has 2 cosponsors.

Here is a short summary of the bill:

This bill would require the Federal Housing Finance Agency to tell

and

to each create a pilot program for buying or sharing risk on certain manufactured home loans.

In practical terms, the bill is aimed at helping finance personal property manufactured homes —that is, manufactured homes financed as movable property rather than as real estate. The agency would have up to 18 months after enactment to direct the two mortgage companies to set...

This issue brief reflects the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act passed by the Senate and House and awaiting the president’s signature.

After months of back-and-forth between the Senate and the House, the two chambers reached an agreement on a comprehensive bipartisan housing package, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. On June 22, 2026, the Senate passed the bill 85-5 and the following day the House passed the bill 358-32.

The final version of the bill largely reflects the previous House amendment to the Senate’s 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act with a few notable compromises:

• It adds six sections only included in Senate legislation to...

VALENTINE, Neb. — A shortage of available housing continues to challenge communities across Nebraska, especially in rural areas where options can be limited.

Statewide, more than 120,000 additional housing units are needed, according to the Nebraska Investment Finance Authority. In smaller towns, that shortage can make it difficult to attract and retain workers, even when jobs are available.

In Valentine, one developer is testing a different approach — one he hopes could serve as a model for other communities.

At a construction site in town, crews are pouring concrete for a new housing development built on land with a long history. The...

The Woodstock City Council will consider a request in August from a developer who is seeking to replace a mobile home park with a 220-home neighborhood.

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WNDU) - The demolition of mobile homes has officially started at Woodfield Crossing in Mishawaka.

It was known as the Oak Grove Mobile Home Park before Habitat for Humanity of St. Joseph County bought it back in 2024.

There will be enough housing for 50 people, and officials say it will all be affordable.

Residents who go through Habitat’s program will pay around $1,100 a month.

“We think that’s something to get excited about. This is a great community to live, work, and play. We’re just helping to make it more affordable,” said Jim Williams the president and CEO for Habitat of Humanity.

Habitat is working with...

The Roaring Fork Mobile Home Park (RFMHP) is an aptly named mobile home park just off of South Grand Avenue in Glenwood Springs. The park has 12 mobile homes and two apartments, making it smaller in comparison to others. Residents say a lot of people don’t even know it exists.

On Sept. 12, 2023, park residents received a notice of their right to buy the property, giving them 120 days to raise enough money to match the sale price. The deal never closed. Today, a Facebook Marketplace listing for the park, posted by one of its five listed owners, prices the park at $2.25 million. 

Aide Gonzalez, a resident of the park, and a handful of other...

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

FAIR HAVEN — When Hope Turi moved her family into a manufactured home at the Green Mountain Mobile Manor one year ago, it felt like everything clicked right into place.

Turi’s family of seven had been living in northern Maine. Following an emergency birth for her youngest kids, a set of twin boys, Turi wanted to move closer to medical specialists — and to her parents, who live across the border in New York, she said. After a stint bunking with relatives, the family found their own home at the Fair Haven...

With a spate of laws passed during the 2025-2026 legislative session, the state of Maine is breaking new ground when it comes to protecting manufactured housing residents from corporate landlord-related consolidation and resident displacement.

During this past legislative session, lawmakers enacted a series of policies designed to help residents purchase their communities, discourage speculative acquisitions by large investors, and preserve long-term affordability. Together, these reforms represent a comprehensive state response to the growing trend of private equity and institutional investors buying up manufactured housing...

A resident of a Southwestern Ontario seasonal trailer park believes he is being evicted without a proper investigation by a municipality after alleging he was the target of harassment by the park’s supervisor.

When Matt Plaine, 42, bought a trailer last May in the municipally owned Port Glasgow Trailer Park – about 70 kilometres southwest of London in the municipality of West Elgin – he along with his son and daughter, both teenagers, were “completely ecstatic” to call the trailer park home May through October, he said.

“(We were) definitely excited for sure,” said Plaine, a renovation company owner. “The kids...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Elizabeth Small guides tape along the top of a moving box. Inside, the 38-year-old packed items from her “junk drawer” as well as “odds and ends.”

Small is 1 of about 35 families preparing to leave their homes at Riverview Mobile Home Park. Weeks of debate over a special use permit for the property ended Monday, when Rockford City Council voted 8-3 for a proposed transformation of the community.

“It’s very, very sad that we all have to leave our homes,” attested Small. “But there’s nothing we can do about it. It is progress. It is how this world works, unfortunately.”

Residents, including Small, say Riverview’s...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) - Santa Maria is considering adopting a new ordinance that would provide protections for mobile home parks that are designed as age-restricted communities.

On Wednesday, the Santa Maria Planning Commission will discuss the creation of a Senior Mobile Home Park Overlay District (SMHP).

"What that will do is create really a separate zone for senior mobile home parks," said Chenin Dow, Santa Maria Community Development Director. "It will mean that if an owner wants to convert in the future to an all-ages park, they will need to go through a public hearing process where the public will have the opportunity to weigh...

EAU CLAIRE — A bill in the Wisconsin legislature looks to address housing affordability and safety in manufactured home communities.

Senate Bill 1027, introduced by several Democratic senators including Sen. Jeff Smith (D-Brunswick), aims to make a number of changes regarding mobile or manufactured home communities.

“We currently don’t have any rules or laws that protect them in those places. And the further away you get from the actual park as far as ownership, the less likely the residents there get the services that they need,” Smith said. “It’s certainly been what I’ve learned from meetings I’ve had with people in Dunn County, and Eau...

Across the country, the people who build, preserve, and steward community-owned homes are forming coalitions to make community ownership of housing a centerpiece of state and local policy. Drawing on conversations with 37 advocates and practitioners, the two of us set out to understand why these coalitions are multiplying—and what it will take for them to last.

Of the 16—by our count—state and local coalitions focused on advancing community ownership policy, 13 are less than 10 years old, and 9 have formed in the past 3 years. Many more coalitions incorporate community ownership policies into their broader advocacy agenda.

These...

Residents of another of the Roaring Fork Valley’s largest mobile home parks (MHPs) are on the verge of achieving something that seemed impossible four months ago.

With word coming June 10 that the Colorado Health Foundation awarded a $4.5 million grant toward the $25 million effort to purchase the 98-home Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park, the residents’ cooperative, organized as the Sopris Mountain Collective, were able to beat a June 13 deadline to make an offer on the property.

The grant brings the total subsidy raised to $11.1 million, just $1.9 million shy of the $13 million necessary to supplement a $12 million loan that the residents...

For many residents at Pleasant Village Mobile Home Park in Bedford County, the quiet 55+ community has been home for years.

Now, they say they’re being told they have to leave.

“We received a letter from the original landowners saying that they were going to be closing on April 1st and that there was a new buyer,” said Homeowner Teresa Stosick.

Residents we spoke with say Creative Pultrusions, a manufacturing company located just down the road, purchased the property earlier this year.

6 News obtained a notice from the company’s attorneys, stating that the land will be redeveloped for business purposes and that they will no longer rent...

RED BLUFF, Calif. - Tehama County Board of Supervisors are set to consider a rent stabilization ordinance that could cap annual rent increases at mobile home parks at 5% at their meeting Tuesday. The proposal comes after residents at River Bluff RV & Mobile Home Park faced rental increases of hundreds of dollars per month.

Steve Huffman, a park resident for 20 years, said the sudden rent hike disrupted his retirement plans. "I had all my finances set up for retirement, driving a truck for 25 years. And they come in and say, your rents are raised by $298. And I'm like, you know that's too much at one time. You know, people can't handle...

A Fair Haven mother of five is calling on Vermont lawmakers to intervene in the planned closure of Green Mountain Mobile Manor, warning that 25 residents, including 11 children, face displacement with no realistic place to go and with less time than state law would typically allow.

Hope Turi, a resident of the park and a college student pursuing a bachelor's degree in social work, submitted a letter to the Vermont Legislature detailing the crisis facing her family and neighbors. Turi said her family purchased their home in the park just one year ago, investing their savings into what she described as the only affordable path to...

BEREA, Ky. (LEX NEWS) — Residents of Community Village mobile home park in Berea claim they were blindsided by a sudden ownership change, a major rent increase, and a new lease agreement — all delivered on the same day.

Residents said they were notified on June 10 about the changes, including a jump in monthly lot rent from $260 to $460, set to take effect Aug. 1.

Jeana Kelley, one of the residents, described her reaction to the news.

"I had a little bit of a meltdown last Wednesday when it all happened. I just, I just couldn't believe it," she said.

Kelley said the increases have been building for years, but nothing like this.

Some residents say they are losing access to their storm shelter and that crime has recently increased after gates and security were removed.