Mobile Home Park News Briefing

(VIDEO) Novato seniors continue fight for ownership of mobile home park after decades of payments
Kevin Ko reports.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Residents at Riverview Mobile Home Park gathered Saturday morning with Rockford city leaders hoping for answers about a proposal that could eventually replace their neighborhood with an RV park.

Emotions surfaced throughout the meeting as residents voiced fears about affordability, housing availability and uncertainty surrounding what happens next if the proposal moves forward.

“I’m 68 years old. I shouldn’t be going through all this,” one resident told city leaders during the discussion.

Rockford City Council Alderpeople Gabrielle Torina, Gina Meeks, Dawn Granath and Aprel Prunty joined the meeting alongside...

Elisept Vanegas held her niece in a sidehug as they watched a bulldozer ram into their kitchen and bring down their front door. Their five children played in the grass, and one boy held his hand over his mouth, unblinking at the site.

Vanegas, who has lived at Forest View Mobile Home park for two years, stood at the culmination of a nearly yearlong effort to save the park after Blue Island officials ordered the property owners to evict residents, citing unsafe conditions, incorrect zoning, unpaid water debt and code violations.

As 66 homes are set to be demolished by the end of May, what’s next for the more than 15-acre parcel at 13800...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Residents at the Ferndale Mobile Home Park in North Charleston say they are scrambling to figure out their next steps after receiving notice they must vacate the property by May 31—just 12 days away.

Families say the notice came after the land was sold to a new owner, identified by residents as New Tides LLC. Many say they own their mobile homes but rent the land underneath them, making relocation both complicated and costly.

“The letter told us that we have until the 31st of this month to move our mobile home,” resident Bruce Ford said.

Residents say they were initially told there would be meetings and...

WARREN, Mich. – Manufactured housing residents at a Southeast Michigan community are taking the rare move and creating a resident-union. It comes after Local 4 reported on a series of stories about issues plaguing communities across the region.

“Join the resident-union. We will be there for you,” Mike Whitty, the director of the resident-union and Mr. Mike’s Neighborhood, said when reading a sign displayed in his front yard.

When you pull up to Whitty’s home at Lafayette Place in Warren, you’ll hear some old tunes and get that familiar wave.

His mission is simple.

“The service standpoint. Creating programs to be able to bring neighbors...

Jenn Moreau has been living in Shady Oaks Mobile Home Park in Arundel for a decade.

"This was a very safe place to land," Moreau said.

She owns her home, but not the land beneath it. Moreau says her monthly rent went from $530 to $660 in less than a year.

"We don't want to cause trouble. We don't want to go after anybody, but we want to stay in our homes," Moreau said.

Now, Moreau and other Arundel voters have a choice come this June, whether or not to implement a rent stabilization ordinance on mobile home parks.

Kevin Fletcher is a certified commercial investment member and broker and owns several mobile home parks in central Maine,...

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — Julie Heins only planned to live in San Lazaro mobile home park for a short time. Nearly 40 years later, it is still the place she calls home.

More than 800 people live in the Boulder County mobile home park, and many of them share that same deep connection to the community.

"I've lived here for about eight years," resident Wendy Kinal said. "There's just a really good neighborhood and family feel and I feel safe here."

Denver7's Claire Lavezzorio spoke to residents about their concerns in the video player below:

Fellow resident Susana Rodriguez echoed that sentiment.

"I'm very proud to live here," Rodriguez...

This week, KGNU’s Rossana Longo Better and Juliana Krigsman spoke with residents at San Lazaro Mobile Home Park in Boulder Colorado, as they raised their concerns about the sale of the park.

Residents are facing uncertainty as their park switches landlords. They have the option to purchase the park themselves, for $40 million. If they are not able to purchase it themselves, residents worry that their lot prices will drastically increase, and potentially leave people displaced.

38-year resident Julie Heins told Krigsman that her biggest concerns are displacement, cost, and families with children having to leave the school...

The Hayden Municipal Housing Authority has secured a $2.5 million philanthropic loan from the Yampa Valley Community Foundation to help finance the purchase of the Pinyon Pines Mobile Home Community, a move aimed at preserving one of the town’s most critical affordable housing developments, after residents spent more than a year fighting to keep it, according to a recent statement from the YVCF.

The funding, provided by the foundation through its Housing Accelerator Fund, is part of a broader package assembled to maintain affordability at the 63-home park, which represents roughly 7% of Hayden’s population.

The purchase marks a...

When residents of San Lazaro mobile home park learned the property was up for sale, many shared the same fear as resident Lety Garcia: displacement. 

“We are afraid that new owners will raise rent or close the park, and many families will be displaced from their homes,” she said.

Residents say San Lazaro, located in unincorporated Boulder County near Boulder, is more than just housing for its 800-plus residents. It is a diverse, close-knit community where people know and rely on their neighbors. Many have called the park home for decades, some for more than 40 years. Unwilling to risk that community on an unknown buyer, residents are...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - A proposal to convert Riverview Mobile Home Park to an RV park was laid over Monday night.

Some community members who live at the mobile home park spoke at city council Monday night opposing the proposal.

Alderwoman Gabrielle Torina (D-5th Ward) made the motion to lay over the vote as she felt more time was needed to meet with the people who would be kicked out of their homes.

Rockford City Council’s Code and Regulation Committee did not vote on proposed development for an RV park where a single-family residential area currently stands, 2530, 2710 and 2720 S. Main Street.

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Tenants at two Bozeman mobile home parks are still refusing to pay rent after they said another increase took effect just before the properties changed hands.

Rent was due May 1, and the strike reached day 12 as residents at Mountain Meadows Mobile Home Park and King Arthur Park pushed back against the latest increase.

Between Mountain Meadows and King Arthur Mobile Home Parks, more than half the residents are taking part in the strike.

Residents on strike said mobile home lot rent went up 11% last month without an explanation and just before the sale of the properties to a new owner.

“The largest rent hike that we've...

Deann Sweeper’s favorite thing about her home in Lakewood Vista isn’t her view of the pond fountain at the center, or the geese nesting on its shore. It's the sense of community she’s built over eight years with her neighbors.

She said now, Lakewood Vista is for sale for the second time since she’s lived here.

"We want to keep that community,” she said. “We’re old. What are we going to do if we can’t live here anymore?”

Sweeper is chair of the board chosen by more than 200 residents to lead efforts to try and buy the mobile home park and turn it into a resident owned community. Their efforts were first reported by the Eugene...

Manufactured housing communities—where residents often own their homes but lease the land beneath them—have traditionally been viewed as an affordable housing option.

However, private equity firms and large investment companies are increasingly acquiring mobile home communities and raising rents.

That's what recently happened at Smoky Palms North in Clinton, TN, where rents more than doubled under new corporate ownership.

“They’re raising my rent from $275 to $650,” Lillian Goins told WATE. “Yes. I’m retired. I work two days part-time to make ends meet. I think this is absolutely ridiculous. I can understand when somebody bought it, you...

By his best guess, 68-year-old JR Colledge has lived at Shady Acres mobile home park for about 20 years. It’s some of the cheapest housing in the city. But Shady Acres is threatened by the looming major makeover of the nearby Provo Towne Centre mall.

The gray-haired jokester lives with his “psycho” orange cat, Simba, and his brother-in-law, who shares the rent. Colledge is worried about finding a new place for all of them to live that’s within their budget and in a good area.

“I don't see this project going anywhere but messing up a bunch of lives,” he said.

Neighbors Dave and Kay Larsen have lived here a decade longer than Colledge....

Controversial mobile home park management company Harmony Communities’ second attempt to raise the rent at a Nipomo mobile home park was knocked down by the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors at its May 5 meeting.

Following rent increase requests for Buena Vista Mobile Home Park and Cambria’s Oak Terrace mobile home park in 2024, which were rejected by the Mobilehome Rent Review Board and the Board of Supervisors in 2025, Harmony again asked the rent review board to approve a rent hike in October 2025.

“Staff’s interpretation forces the owner’s real-dollar profit to shrink by 40 percent of the inflation rate every year,...

NOVATO, Calif. - Residents of a major affordable mobile home park in Novato say they are continuing a decades-long fight to keep their community in their own hands. The 400 residents who live in the 311 homes that comprise the Marin Valley Mobile Country Club fear losing their community and are now receiving assistance from You Are the Power, a nationwide tax-exempt organization that uses social media to help citizens navigate local government disputes.

The backstory:

Three decades ago, the city of Novato floated bonds to support low-income, affordable housing. The agreement dictated that residents would pay for all...

Yellowstone County Treasurer Hank Peters was sitting at his desk on the morning of April 20, preparing one of the first batches of 2026 property tax bills to be mailed out, when he noticed something wasn’t quite right.

The property tax bills for mobile home owners that Peters was reviewing showed collections far higher than the previous year.

“You see the number, and it’s like, ‘OK, wow, that’s a lot more than I was expecting,’” Peters said in a phone interview Monday.

What Peters observed is happening in other Montana counties, too: Many mobile home owners — who receive their property tax bills months earlier than the rest of residential...

A bill to control rent increases in manufactured home parks in New York passed in both houses.

If signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul, the legislation would require mobile home park owners to provide a written justification and documentation for rent increases over 3%.

Building on 2019 legislation — the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act, which capped rent increases at 3% — this new legislation would close a loophole that allowed park owners to raise rents above 3% without providing any justification for the increases.

In August 2025, the Times Herald-Record reported on rent increases over 3% at a Newburgh manufactured home park...

MESA, AZ — Residents in a mobile home park in Mesa were still packing up to leave the day after they were told to vacate. Some told ABC15 that they had a few more days due to extenuating circumstances.

Dozens of residents in the La Casita Mobile Home Park near McKellips Road and Mesa Drive were told they were given an eviction letter in October with a deadline date of April 30 to vacate.

In a letter given to residents, it read that the land the park was on had been sold and would be converted into commercial development.

For resident Ed Littell, leaving is a hard pill to swallow. Littell said he’s lived there for almost 30 years. It was...

Tenants at two mobile home parks in Bozeman are set to begin a rent strike Friday after their outgoing landlord notified residents of $97 monthly rent hikes in late March. 

Occupants of over 60% of the units at King Arthur and Mountain Meadows Parks voted unanimously earlier this week to withhold their rent payments for the month of May. This move amounts to nearly $53,000, according to Bozeman Tenants United, the group organizing the effort. 

A rent strike is a collective action in which tenants withhold rent payments to pressure landlords into negotiating terms. The King Arthur and Mountain Meadows chapters of Bozeman Tenants United...

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.

Jay voters approved a mobile home park rent moratorium Tuesday night by a 449–213 vote, handing a major victory to residents who have spent months organizing for stability and protection from displacement.

The measure immediately halts excessive lot rent increases, offering residents relief while the town works toward a longer-term solution, such as an ordinance adopted by other towns across the state.

“It had to be done – it was a necessity for our livelihoods,” said Tanya Dwyer, a resident of Hidden Circle Park. “It’s been a long journey, but we saw success at the end of the tunnel. We fought for what we thought was right. Now people...

Angered by years of rising costs and scaled-back services, mobile home park residents in Killingworth plan a massive turnout at their town’s Fair Rent Committee this weekend to push for a cap on rent increases.

Many residents of the nearly 300 homes at Beechwood have become increasingly dissatisfied since Michigan-based Sun Communities bought the property in 2019, and say they fear eventually being priced out altogether.

“They have been increasing the annual rent for the land our homes occupy at an alarming rate, which will exceed $10,000 annually within nine years,” resident Barbra Shapiro said. “I live on Social Security. Sun’s...

The city of Evansville will offer financial assistance to residents of a neglected mobile home park. WNIN’s John Gibson has details:

The City Council voted Monday night to provide up to 15-thousand dollars to help residents pay to move out 0f the park off Oak Hill Road, near Oak Hill Cemetery.

The money will come from interest earned on American Rescue Plan funds.

Residents of the park can each receive up to one-thousand dollars by the end of this year.

The non-profit HOPE of Evansville will distribute the money and return any funds not used.

The mobile home park has been the scene of fire-damaged trailers, piles of trash and debris, and...