Mobile Home Park News Briefing

A new owner at a Missoula County mobile home park in Montana is drawing complaints from residents who say steep lot-rent increases and little communication are making it harder for families to remain there.

As concerns pile up over costs, maintenance, and safety, tenants are asking county officials to help push for answers.

At Target Range Mobile Home Park, residents recently organized a tenants union as lot rents climbed after Admiral Communities became the new owner, according to the Missoula Current.

Park resident Lisa Coon said her costs show how dramatic the change has been: What was once $475 in lot rent is now a...

Melissa Schroeder sits in her living room with her neighbors wondering how much longer she can afford to remain in her manufactured home, and if help will ever come.

Like many in the Red Maple Acres community — which has more than 200 lots on the border of Lower Macungie and Upper Macungie townships near Wescosville — Schroeder has had to deal with steep prices on the land she rents from the owner, GSP Management Co.

While she owns her house, she rents the lot from GSP, which recently bought the 18-acre property from ARX Communities for $30.5 million. There are also utilities and property taxes. Simply picking up and moving somewhere less...

Sanger mobile home residents, specifically from the Vista Del Monte Mobile Home Park, returned to the Sanger City Council to ask for rent control regulations amid escalating financial pressures and fears of steep space-rent increases.

The management of a mobile home park near Woodstock city limits says it is communicating with residents as a developer is considering buying the property to build a new neighborhood there.

EVANSVILLE — The city set aside $15,000 to help residents in a neglected mobile home park move out, but as of July 13, no tenants have reached out about the money.

BILLINGS — Residents at Golden Meadows Mobile Home Park say a steep increase in monthly lot rent could make it difficult for many of their neighbors, particularly seniors and people living on fixed incomes, to remain in the community.

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Residents recently received letters at the end of June notifying them that monthly lot rent will increase on Aug. 1 from $530 to $705, a $175 monthly increase that amounts to about 33% and an additional $2,100 per year. The increase applies to the park's roughly 520 lots, with some newer renters seeing larger increases.

Mobile home park residents of Pine Tree Estates in Standish packed the Standish Town Council meeting on Tuesday to ask for a rent stabilization ordinance.

Residents told the council that their lot rents have been raised by hundreds of dollars since RHP Properties, the largest private owner of manufactured home communities in the United States, bought the park in 2019. Many of the residents are older than 55, on fixed incomes and struggling to make ends meet as the cost of living in Maine rises.

“(Our neighbors) are scared that after spending decades building their lives here in Standish, that they may no longer be able to afford to stay,”...

Petaluma has served as a proving ground for tightened mobile home park regulations and is poised to do so again as the owners of Little Woods Mobile Villa seek to push forward with shuttering the 78-space park off Lakeville Highway.

The city has been a ground zero of sorts as a group of park owners have launched a flurry of lawsuits over new rules passed to limit rent increases on mobile home spaces and bolster resident protections as part of a wave of tighter regulations regionally and at the state level.

In June 2024, Little Woods owners notified the city of their intent to close, setting off a lengthy, complex and not often used...

The small patch of dirt encircling Carmen Silverio Guardado’s home bears fruit — lots of it. There are pomegranates, guavas, dragon fruit and nectarines. She also grows oregano and lemongrass, which she brews into a tea to soothe stomach issues.

All of this Silverio Guardado and her husband cultivate beside the two-bedroom mobile home they have owned for 12 years.

They have no plans to move — mostly because they could not afford to live anywhere else.

Mobile homes are the cheapest form of housing in California. On average, owners spend about $1,200 a month on housing, hundreds of dollars less than apartment renters and traditional...

TEMPLE, Texas (KWTX) - Residents of Santa Fe Trails mobile home park in Temple said they were told in February that the city purchased the property, and they would need to either move their trailers or find a new place to live by the end of August.

According to the City of Temple, the property was purchased after the owner offered to sell it, having decided that expanding was not an option. Now residents are being asked to relocate, and some are finding that harder than expected.

Julie Prince-Goodwin, who lives at the park on a fixed income, said she has been unable to find a new home.

“I just don’t know what I’m going to do. I have no...

TWO HUNDRED HOUSEHOLDS in an American Canyon mobile home park face whopping rent increases in September — in many cases close to $300 a month, a boost of more than 40 percent for most.

SACO –– Saco may soon join other communities in capping rent increases at mobile home parks.

City Council is reviewing a proposal preventing landlords from raising rents more than once a year, and renters must get 90 days' notice.

The ordinance caps increases at either 5% or equal to the most recent Consumer Price Index annual percentage change, plus 1%, whichever is lower. The CPI tracks changes in the prices of goods and services nationwide.

The draft’s introductory language states: “Residents of those parks should expect to be protected from unnecessary, excessive cost increases because they may be put at risk of severe housing...

A manufactured home community in Albany is now owned by the people who live there. In June the residents of Albany Acres bought the property from former owner Patrick Houghton of Ranger Properties LLC.

To buy the property, residents formed a cooperative and will now run the community as a not-for-profit corporation.

“They purchase the land and infrastructure underneath their homes, and they run it as a democratic business in perpetuity afterwards,” Sarah Marchant said.

She is the chief operating officer and senior vice president of the resident-owned communities program at the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, which provided financing...

Maria Franco has lived in the Park Royale Mobile Home Community for 25 years, in the Van Nuys neighborhood in north Los Angeles. The community has just under 150 rectangular homes, lined up neatly on a large field of mostly asphalt, with fruit trees popping up here and there.

Two years ago, Franco faced a string of bad luck. The 65-year-old lost her long-time job packing orders at a distribution company when it abruptly moved to another county, a commute too far for her to make.

Then her hot water heater clonked out, so she hauled warm water from her stovetop to her bathroom, scooping it over her head for a shower.

San Lazaro Mobile Home Park residents have started a donation campaign as they continue their effort to raise money to buy the park in unincorporated Boulder County from a private owner.

San Lazaro Park Properties bought the community, which was built in the 1960s, in 1983 and recently sent a notice of a plan to sell. State law gives residents the first right of refusal to buy the park, allowing them 120 days to organize, raise money and make a competitive offer. Based on the residents’ interpretation, if an outside offer is made, they would also have an additional 120 days to make a counteroffer.

Park owners have said the price residents...

[Video] Orange County highlights past efforts to shut down troubled mobile home park

TEMPLE, Texas (KWTX) - Residents of Santa Fe Trails mobile home park in Temple said they were told in February that the city purchased the property, and they would need to either move their trailers or find a new place to live by the end of August.

According to the City of Temple, the property was purchased after the owner offered to sell it, having decided that expanding was not an option. Now residents are being asked to relocate, and some are finding that harder than expected.

Julie Prince-Goodwin, who lives at the park on a fixed income, said she has been unable to find a new home.

“I just don’t know what I’m going to do. I have no...

SARATOGA — An appeal has temporarily halted the eviction of three residents of the Saratoga Lakeview Mobile Home Park, delaying plans to demolish their homes and redevelop the property.

The latest legal twist extends a yearslong fight over the mobile home park on state Route 9P, a prime Saratoga Lake property that owner Michael Giovanone wants to convert into a boat and RV storage facility.

Giovanone bought the 3.2-acre park in 2021 with plans to expand his adjoining Boat N RV Condos business. Under the purchase agreement, however, he was required to wait five years before changing the property’s use and was expected to pay each homeowner...

The private equity company Brookfield is in the process of acquiring Yes Communities, one of the largest owners of manufactured home parks in the U.S., with about 270 parks and 77,000 home sites.

There have been news reports over the last few years, during some of the hottest summers on record, that Yes Communities threatened residents with lease violations and of being forced out of their homes if they didn’t remove window air conditioning units.

When Brookfield owns the parks, will it address the ban on Window A/C Units?

A letter to residents of Countryside Village in South Bend, Indiana, read, “If you have window A/C units you must...

The putrid smell of human waste has permeated Tatyana Boykin’s trailer home for months, forcing her, her sister, their disabled mother and brother, to spend most of the year living out of their car.

The family has photographs of a disconnected pipe beneath their three-bedroom trailer at Hunter Ridge Mobile Home Park that they say has pumped raw sewage into the crawl space beneath their home and caused water with excrement to back flow into their drains, toilet and bathtub.

That hasn’t stopped the property management team at Hunter Ridge — a massive, eviction-plagued trailer park on Tara Road near Jonesboro — from charging Boykin, the only...

A drummer beat an empty water jug, and the voices cried out: “Raquel, escucha,” for they were in “la lucha.” So chanted nearly two dozen residents of Little Havana’s Silver Court trailer park and their supporters outside the office of Miami-Dade County Commissioner Raquel Regalado on Wednesday afternoon as they called on their District 7 commissioner for help.

In March, the 200-plus families living in Silver Court learned the park would be closing and that they had six months to vacate. The park’s owner, 1989 Sunny Court LLC — which is owned by California-based real estate firm Marquis Property Company — has said it wants to develop the...

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...