Mobile Home Park News Briefing

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Families at Forest Park Mobile Home Park in northeast Charlotte are in the final stages of moving off the property after a deadline to vacate the decades-old community passed Sunday.

Residents said the closure is forcing long-time tenants out of Charlotte and reflects a wider affordability crunch. A developer plans to replace the mobile home park with new apartments and townhomes, according to previous rezoning petitions.

“It’s horrible, it’s been a nightmare,” said Raul Ramirez, who has lived in the park for 30 years. He said even with some time to pack up and move, “it seems like the time is not enough.”

Ramirez...

Residents at San Lazaro Mobile Home Park just outside Boulder's city limits are hoping to become Colorado's 20th Resident-Owned Community, or ROC, under a state law that gives mobile home residents the opportunity to purchase their park when an owner decides to sell.

For families like Maria Ramirez's, the effort may be the only way to afford to stay in their home.

"It's our little home... We have nowhere else to go," said Ramirez, who addressed our crew in Spanish.

Ramirez has lived at San Lazaro Mobile Home Park with her family for nine years. The entire community, reported to be 213 homes, is now up for sale with an asking price of...

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

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...

BRUNSWICK (WGME) -- Brunswick is now one of six Maine municipalities to adopt a rent stabilization ordinance focused on mobile home parks.

Other towns are considering similar measures as residents say rents are increasing while conditions in some parks are not keeping pace.

Dan Neumann, a field organizer with the Maine Labor Climate Council, says the issue has become a top concern for residents his team has worked with across the state.

“The number one issue with a bullet, was people are very concerned about being able to live in these parks for the forceable future,” Neumann said.

Neumann says ownership changes are a major factor driving...

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.

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...

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...

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...

FAIR HAVEN, Vt. (WCAX) - Residents of Green Mountain Mobile Home Manor in Fair Haven must move out by Sept. 1 as administrators plan to close the park and sell the property.

ohn Capen and Pauline Larose have lived at Green Mountain Mobile Home Manor for the past few years after moving out of the state’s hotel voucher program.

“We’re looking at options about going out of the state because the housing here is just so short and we came from a hotel ourselves for two years before we got our place,” Larose said.

“It is all famliies, elderly, people who truly need to keep their homes,” Capen added.

Court-appointed administrator Kevin Kite...

ARUNDEL – Residents in Arundel have passed a new ordinance that will limit how much property owners can raise monthly rent rates on mobile homes in town.

Residents passed the measure at the annual town meeting on June 10. Town Clerk Rachel Bull said an actual tally of the vote was not available, but 175 voters were present, and it passed by a show of hands.

“There were so many ‘yesses’ you could hear the arms go up,” said Jennifer Moreau, who lives on Shady Lane in Shady Oaks Mobile Home Park.

Bull said the ordinance went into effect on passage. The new ordinance, according to town documents, limits the number of times property owners can...

JAY, Maine — The Select Board faces a busy summer as it works toward an August deadline to draft an ordinance that would limit rent increases for mobile home lots.

The board is also considering whether to replace the Jay Police Department’s outdated Tasers.

Town Manager Shiloh LaFreniere told the board Monday night that a mobile home rent‑control ordinance must be approved by Aug. 24 to appear on the Nov. 3 ballot.

On April 28, voters at the annual town meeting approved writing an ordinance to freeze lot rental fees for mobile home parks, retroactive to Dec. 8, 2025. Mobile home residents, who generally own their homes but rent...

Attorneys for the residents of Silver Court Trailer Park have asked a judge to halt eviction proceedings on the Little Havana property, citing a Florida mobile home law meant to protect vulnerable people from becoming homeless.

The Silver Court Homeowners Association (HOA) filed a motion for a temporary injunction in Miami-Dade County court, arguing 1989 Sunny Court LLC — the park's owner — didn't get the legally-required government permission to change the zoning on the mobile home park before evicting people.

"The HOA seeks a declaratory judgment against 1989 SUNNY COURT LLC finding that it violated its obligation of good faith and fair...

Residents, lawmakers, and affordable housing advocates are pressing the Pennsylvania Senate to act on manufactured home community protections that have stalled in that chamber for one year.

Speakers at a recent press conference in Harrisburg criticized out-of-state investment and private equity firms, saying they are dramatically increasing lot rents while allowing services and upkeep to deteriorate – undermining one of the last truly affordable homeownership options available to many Pennsylvanians.

Chants of “Pass the bills!” were heard throughout the event, as residents filled the Capitol Media Center to standing-room-only...

NORTHWEST TALLAHASSEE, FL — Cherokee Estates on White Drive is closing after more than 50 years, displacing residents who received 30-day notices to vacate. The owner cites an untraceable water leak that more than doubled the property's monthly water bill.

WATCH FULL REPORT BELOW:

Owner Rick Hartsfield says his father built Cherokee Estates in 1967, but the more-than-5-acre property has been in the family since the 1920s. Hartsfield says an untraceable water leak caused the property's monthly water bill to jump from about $6,000 to more than $13,000.

"It's just a legacy that, you know, for unforeseen circumstances that we're having to...

The Pitkin County Board of County Commissioners voted Wednesday to override the Planning and Zoning Commission’s finding of non-conformance for the Phillips Mobile Home Park redevelopment, citing rapidly deteriorating and dangerous infrastructure.

The Phillips Mobile Home park was purchased by Pitkin County to help preserve affordable housing that otherwise would’ve been lost if the park had been sold on the open market. When Pitkin County purchased the park, commissioners knew of infrastructure challenges and conducted a Health Impact Assessment. The board has since focused on housing safety, wildfire resilience, and water and wastewater...