Mobile Home Park News Briefing

BIDDEFORD (WGME) -- Mobile home rents are on the rise.

Residents at a Biddeford mobile home park say their monthly rent has soared.

Tuesday night, they say thought relief was in sight, as city leaders debated a new rent control ordinance. But in the end, there was no deal.

Madeline Gallant has lived in a three-bedroom, two-bath home for nine years.

And for a time, she had it all to herself.

• Also read: Sanford City Council passes mobile home rent control ordinance

“I had to have my daughter and grandson come,” Gallant said.

She says she needed to bring them in just so she could afford her rent, which has gone from $300 a month to $650 in...

Neighbors in a mobile home park say they are now paying hundreds of dollars more each month just to rent their lots.

A petition drive already has dozens of signatures from folks who live at Idelwild Acres in Burke County. Many of the people there own their homes, but they say they can't afford the steep price increase for the land it sits on.

Julia Hughes showed Channel 9's Dave Faherty the signatures on the petition drive at Idlewild Acres mobile home park. She recently got a notice that her lot rental would be going up to $700 a month on August 1.

"And they want to go up on my lot … just my lot, not my trailer. I own my trailer, they...

READING, Pa. – During his budget speech Tuesday, Gov. Josh Shapiro highlighted what he says is a growing housing problem across Pennsylvania.

“Christine Ziemer, who lives in Berks County and joins us here today, knows this firsthand,” Shapiro said. “Christine and her husband, Joe, who passed away late last year, they downsized in 2019 to move closer to their grandkids.”

The governor explained that Ziemer and her husband bought into a manufactured home community — a type of housing where residents own their homes, but not the land. According to Shapiro, more than 56,000 households across Pennsylvania live in similar communities.

“That’s...

Damien Teague has lived in San Lazaro Mobile Home Park in Boulder County, CO, for 18 years.

So when he received a Post-it on his door on March 20 saying that the owners were planning to sell the park for $42.5 million, his heart sank.

"The next morning, I was sitting on my back porch working with ChatGPT to explore my options, just feeling the stress of the unknowns," he tells Realtor.com®. "As I was sitting there, I also felt the stress of the 212 other households that were feeling the same thing, and that was enough for me to take action."

The medically retired Navy veteran had learned of a Colorado law granting mobile home...

When Brenda Dewitt moved into Hancock Heights Estates, a 100-plus site mobile home park outside Ellsworth, three years ago, she was expecting to retire and live off her Social Security for her golden years.

Now, she said, rent and water rate increases have prompted her to return to work for the first time in four years. Her monthly rent has gone up nearly $30 from last year, with rate increases varying by resident to $60 or more.

“I’ve had to go back to work, and it’s killing me,” Dewitt said. “I have two bad knees that need to be replaced, a bad lower back, but I need to work to pay the bills. My husband is 72 years old, and he...

DEWITT TOWNSHIP, MI - Rebecca Jackson moved out of her home of seven years at the end of March.

Jackson, 52, now lives five minutes down the road, but she still misses the animals that wandered through her yard at Kristana Mobile Home Park in DeWitt Township, about three miles north of Lansing.

“It’s been really hard on me. We don’t see the deer. We don’t see everything we had out there,” she said. “On a bad day, we’d go out, sit and watch them. It seems like they took it away.”

The aging mobile home park, once slated for redevelopment with a $2 million grant from the state, now sits vacant: condemned homes, overgrown grass...

BARNSTABLE COUNTY, Mass. —

The state’s highest court has ruled against residents of a Cape Cod mobile home park who wanted to buy their community — but the decision could make it easier for other manufactured housing residents in Massachusetts to do the same.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday that residents of Pocasset Park in Bourne did not meet all the legal requirements needed to purchase the park under the state’s right of first refusal law.

That law gives manufactured housing residents the opportunity to buy their community before it is sold to another buyer, as long as they meet certain requirements and match the...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Rockford’s Code and Regulation Committee advances a proposal that would see a change of ownership for a mobile home neighborhood along South Main Street.

The committee approved the special use permit for a planned RV park in a 3-1 vote, with Alderman Tamir Bell being the sole vote against the measure.

If passed by the full council, River View Mobile Home Park would be owned under Midwest Yard Holdings, which has plans to change the mobile home park to an RV and “5th wheel” community, which would force current residents to move.

The proposal now heads to the full council for potential final approval.

Roughly 20 million Americans live in manufactured houses, which are homes made in factories.

Although they’re often called mobile homes or trailers, that’s really a misnomer because their owners can’t easily relocate them. Typically, the people who own them rent the land underneath the houses from the owners of manufactured home parks. Sometimes, an owner will rent their home to someone else while paying to rent the land as well.

Manufactured homes tend to be far more affordable than other single-family homes because they have lower upfront and monthly expenses. A typical one costs around US$120,000; smaller ones, known as single-wides,...

(The Center Square) – Legislation designed to protect residents in Pennsylvania’s manufactured home communities has been stalled in committee for a year, leaving homeowners, residents, and the industry itself in limbo.

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — The deadline has passed for residents to leave Evergreen Trailer Park in south Reno, but not everyone has been able to find a new place to live.

At the end of April, residents were told they had 30 days to move out. The deadline for everyone to leave was Sunday, and as of Monday morning, there were still a few people who had not left.

Glory, a resident, said the park has been an affordable place to live during a difficult time. She has not found a new place to live.

“The rent is affordable. After I went through my divorce, I couldn't afford much and starting over is hard. This has been home and everybody...

In December of 2024, due to ongoing building code violations at Hermantown’s Maple Field Trailer Par...

The soon-to-be-removed residents of the Silver Court Trailer Park know they can't stay — they're just asking for more time to pack up and leave the homes they've owned for decades.

This past March, mobile home owners at the park in Little Havana were notified by the park owner, Zan Marquis, of California-based Marquis Property Company, that the land would be redeveloped and the residents had six months to vacate the premises. The owner has not said what the park will be redeveloped into, nor has the property been rezoned for a new use as yet.

"I've lived in Silver Court for 25 years," 68-year-old park resident Victoria Diaz told WLRN in...

Local residents, nonprofits, governments and private donors are once again rallying together to help a for-sale mobile home park become a resident-owned community. If the purchase is successful, Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park — located in unincorporated Garfield County along Highway 82 between Carbondale and Glenwood Springs — would be the fourth park in the Roaring Fork Valley over the past year to transition to resident ownership.

Residents of mobile home parks often own their homes but rent the land underneath from a private landlord, leaving them vulnerable to displacement if owners redevelop or raise...

REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Residents of Long’s Mobile Home Court on Plymouth Road are facing a tight deadline to find new housing after Redford Township — now owner of the property — says infrastructure failures and unsafe living conditions have made the site uninhabitable.

Township officials say residents have 30 to 45 days to leave following recent court action and eviction notices served to the park. For many residents who have called Long’s home for years, the news has been devastating.

“Half of us haven’t even been sleeping. We don’t know what to do anymore,” said Lori Gauthier, a resident of the park. “You know I just started to get...

Douglassville, PA – Today, Governor Josh Shapiro visited a manufactured housing community in Berks County to call for reform to protect Pennsylvanians living in manufactured home communities from predatory practices often used by out-of-state property management companies. In his 2026 Budget Address, Governor Shapiro called on the Pennsylvania General Assembly to pass legislation limiting annual lot rent increases for manufactured housing communities. This legislation, coupled with reforms included in the Governor’s 2026-27 proposed budget and Housing Action Plan, would protect manufactured homeowners and help make housing more affordable...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — After weeks of organizing, residents at Ferndale Mobile Home Park in North Charleston have reached an agreement with the property’s new owner, New Tide LLC, that provides more time and added relocation support as families prepare to leave the community.

Residents were initially told they had to vacate the park by May 31 after the land was sold to New Tide LLC, a deadline that many said was impossible to meet given the high cost and logistics of moving a mobile home. Families say they were offered incentives such as $1,000 for those who relocated by the deadline, but said that amount fell far short of what...

For nearly a decade, Teresa Lezama built a life at Silver Court Trailer Park in Miami.

She paid roughly $55,000 for her trailer home on park property, where she raised her family. The park where she rents land for her trailer was quiet, affordable, and stable, one of the few places left in Miami where working-class residents could realistically afford to live.

As of March 11, she said, all of that is slipping away.

“They left a notice on the door saying we had to move out,” Lezama told Prism, referencing a letter from The Urban Group, a real estate consulting firm acting on behalf of park owner 1989 Sunny Court LLC. “It affected me a lot....

Residents of Plateau Village mobile home park, which is set to close at the end of the year, are pulling together for a benefit concert this weekend.

The event will take place 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Barn at Stoner Commons, 605 Granite Run Drive in Manheim Township. All proceeds will go to residents of the manufactured home community for adults age 55 and over.

Four local bands are donating their services to the benefit: Winged Victory, Keri Edwards Band, Band of Llamas and Nicks In Time, a Stevie Nicks tribute band. The event will also feature Plateau Village residents telling their personal stories.

Nicks In Time lead vocalist...

For decades, the mobile home park known as Chatham Estates was an oasis of affordability off of East Chatham Street, one that allowed working-class families to live and work in the heart of Cary.

Today, it's a patchwork of empty lots, leftover debris, and homes torn from the ground. Residents have until June 30 to move out to make room for a housing development slated for the 27-acre lot.

Mexican immigrant Angelina Zúñiga will leave the community after 30 years of living in the trailas, as the mobile homes are referred to informally in Spanish.

"I've had a whole life here," said Zuniga, 62, in Spanish. "Three years ago they told us that...

There are 56,000 Pennsylvania households in manufactured homes and thousands have been subjected to significant increases to their monthly lot rent in recent years.

In his budget address last month, Governor Shapiro called on the legislature to pass legislation limiting lot rent increases for manufactured homeowners.

Governor Shapiro’s visit to Douglass Village highlighted his budget proposal and his Housing Action Plan to meet Pennsylvania’s housing needs and make housing more affordable.

Douglassville, PA – Today, Governor Josh Shapiro visited a manufactured housing community in Berks County to call for reform to protect Pennsylvanians...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Residents of a North Charleston mobile home park say they are being forced out after the property was sold, leaving many scrambling to relocate with little time or financial support.

Tenants at the Ferndale mobile home community said they received notices in March informing them they must vacate the property by May 31. Several residents said the sudden timeline caught them off guard.

“They could have told us, ‘Hey, this is coming.’ We didn’t get that,” said resident Bruce Ford. “If they had contacted us early and offered more money, offered more time, everything would have worked out smoothly. Most of the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) reintroduced the Frank Adelmann Manufactured Housing Community Sustainability Act, which would incentivize manufactured home park owners to sell the park to community residents or nonprofits, rather than another developer or landlord. Rep. Omar is joined by Congressman Chris Pappas (D-NH) in co-leading this legislation. Companion legislation is being introduced in the U.S. Senate by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).

“Manufactured homeowners deserve the same stability, dignity, and protection as any other homeowner,” said Congresswoman Omar. “Too many families who own their homes are still...

Residents of a Hancock mobile home park say their property’s out-of-state, multinational corporate owners are steadily pricing them out of a once-affordable community.

The publicly traded corporation Sun Communities, which markets itself as one of the world’s largest real estate investment trusts, acquired Hancock Heights Mobile Home Park — a 113-site property about 10 minutes east of Ellsworth on Route 1 — about five years ago.

Since then, residents say the corporation has raised rents excessively and neglected the park’s maintenance, creating water and sewage problems that compound the financial strain on residents,...

Lori Fournier calls her three-bedroom home at Meadows of Hopkinton her utopia.

In the six years since she moved in, she has remodeled the manufactured home to be everything she ever wanted, even installing an ADA-compliant walk-in shower to accommodate her disability.

But after Sado Parks, a Michigan-based investment firm, purchased the housing park in December, Fournier, 57, finds herself in a position she never anticipated — planning to sell.

“I love living here, I’d live here until I die,” she said, as her voice cracked under the emotion of it all. “But I think it’s going to be a contentious relationship with this owner, and that’s my...