Mobile Home Park News Briefing

When about 85 residents lost water for two months in the Lightner Creek Mobile Home Park earlier this year west of Durango, there was little anyone could do.

Two days after the Feb. 13 outage, the park’s owner, Darlene Mann, received a cease-and-desist order from Christina Postolowski, manager of the Mobile Home Park Oversight Program. The order compelled Mann to comply with the various sections of the Mobile Home Park Act by repairing the water system, providing water to residents until service was restored, repairing a blocked sewer line and fully cleaning up a spill of raw sewage on park property.

When Mann did not comply with the...

PHOENIX -- The razing of older mobile home parks across the United States worries advocates who say bulldozing them permanently eliminates some of the already limited housing for the poorest of the poor.

A recent survey by the National Low Income Housing Coalition showed a U.S.-wide shortage of 7.3 million affordable rental homes for extremely low-income renters, defined in Arizona as a three-member household making $28,850 or less.

"Mobile homes are a much bigger part of our affordable housing stock than people know," said Mark Stapp, who directs Arizona State University's master's degree program in real estate development. "Once it's...

SPARKS, Nev. (KOLO) -In many ways, Jeanneil Marzan is a typical resident of her seniors-only mobile home park in Sparks.

She’s owned her manufactured home for 10 years, and for all those years she’s shouldered the responsibilities of any homeowner. Her home and others nearby are well kept.

Although she owns and maintains the structure, someone else owns the ground it sits on and her landlord has just changed. In December, the park was bought by an investment group, the Carlisle Corporation.

They’ve raised the rent for new residents. She pays $790 a month. Someone moving in across the street would pay just over a thousand, but there are no...

San Antonio – The City of San Antonio plans to use part of its first housing bond to help create the city’s first mobile home park cooperative.

As part of the second round of proposals to use bond and federal dollars, city staff on Wednesday recommended helping fund a plan to purchase a South Side mobile home park and convert it into a co-op. That means the tenants of the 56-site Riverside Terrace on Mission Road would then own the park themselves and have the authority to set rents and make any improvements.

City staff recommended approving a little less than $2.9 million of the $150 million housing bond as well as $250,000 in fee...

PHOENIX (AP) — Alondra Ruiz Vazquez and her husband were comfortable in Periwinkle Mobile Home Park for a decade, feeling lucky to own their mobile home and pay about $450 a month for their lot in a city with spiraling rents.

But now they and dozens of other families have until May 28 to leave the Phoenix park, which nearby Grand Canyon University purchased seven years ago to build student housing. Two other mobile home communities are also being cleared this spring for new developments in a city where no new parks have been built in more than 30 years.

“I'm here, well, because I have nowhere to go,” said Isabel Ramos, who lives at...

RIVERDALE — As the deadline to vacate the Lesley’s Mobile Home Park site looms, only a handful of stragglers remain.

“I’m waiting to the last minute,” said one of the remaining residents, Flora Espinoza, who’s lived at the park for 23 years. Lesley’s, which sits in the shadow of Riverdale Road where it crosses the Weber River, has space for 55 units, but only five or six units are still occupied.

Espinoza still hasn’t found a buyer for her unit, at least at a price that’s acceptable to her, and she’s holding out. “I’ve cried a lot over this,” she said from her porch, one of her grandsons eating inside the unit while her two dogs, Chiquita...

The same week that the Phoenix City Council was debating providing a mobile home zoning overlay at three mobile home parks that are facing imminent eviction and displacement, another mobile home park at the I-17 and Indian School Road showed up for sale on Zillow. 

The listing stated that the tenants were facing annual rent increases and that future rezoning and redevelopment was imminent. This would allow for the demolition of the existing 34 mobile homes and subsequent eviction of all the residents to build about 192 units of market-rate housing. 

Even if the community organized to reject the rezoning application, most mobile home parks...

Atiny mobile home in Palm Springs, CA, rumored to have once been actor Desi Arnaz‘s makeup trailer is this week’s most popular listing on Realtor.com®.

Named “Lucille” after Arnaz’s real-life wife and “I Love Lucy” co-star, Lucille Ball, the 336-square-foot abode is part of a mobile park community known as Horizon Mobile Village. Located directly under the famous Bob Hope House, the affordable and adorable dwelling is already pending sale.

Other real estate offerings that made the popularity list include a massive Lone Star estate with a 50-car garage, a California megamansion that Eddie Murphy once owned, and a hobbit-style home in...

MONROE CITY, Mo. (KHQA) — Residents of one Monroe City Trailer Court are unhappy about the cost of living and unhealthy living conditions.

"They have all these high expectations, but them not wanting to fix anything, how are you going to have high expectations when you are a slumlord," said one tenant who requested their identity remain unknown.

Residents in the Monroe Community Trailer Court have had concerns about the condition of the area for sometime now.

They say they have seen more crime and unhealthy living conditions when new owners took over.

Ben White lived in the former Kendrick Mobile Home Park since 1972.

He says when the new...

Homeowners in the Pines Trailer Park, 103 Church Ave., Bradenton Beach, received notice May 8 of an offer from an unknown entity seeking to purchase the park land.

The notice was prepared by attorney David A. Luczak, representing the Jackson Partnership, which owns the land on the bayside in the city’s historic district.

The property is one of two mobile home parks on Anna Maria Island — both are in Bradenton Beach.

The notice outlined an offer that includes a purchase price of $16,250,000 for park-owned land, as well as any park-owned mobile homes, recreational vehicles, equipment, materials, vehicles and buildings.

The notice also...

And when a so-far unidentified developer wanted to change all that and offered more than half a billion dollars to buy them out, the residents were near unanimous with their answer – you've got to be kidding me!

Even now, they don't regret their decision to turn down the bid, as DailyMail.com got an inside look at the community and spoke to residents who said no to the offer of $502,496,000.

'This is paradise,' resident Chuck Swift told DailyMail.com. 'I mean, you're sitting on my boat right now and I live the same lifestyle as a mega multimillionaire that's six blocks south. Obviously it's a trailer, but I can go out to the inlet, out to...

When the North Country Village Cooperative asked the state last year for help with failing drinking water and wastewater systems, the manufactured home community was placed at No. 5 on a priority list.

Fifty-seven homes occupy the former 1960s three-season campground, just a few miles from the beautiful expanse of Lake Winnipesaukee in the small town of Tuftonboro. The leach field systems were defective and breaking down. Some needed to be pumped every six months or less. Septic tanks were undersized.

Drinking water was another issue altogether. The water system was just barely meeting daily demand, according to project documents, and one...

NORTH LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Many residents at the Pair-A-Dice Senior Mobile Home Park say they were told to leave by June 2nd because the park is being torn down.

"Where are you going to put all the senior citizens who are on a fixed income," said Pair-A-Dice Senior Mobile Home Park resident, David Kille.

Another resident, Sayed Mohammad Sayed has lived in the park for nearly two decades. Over the years, he said he has invested about $20,000 into his home, but says Agora Realty, the company that recently purchased the land is only offering him $3,750 to relocate by June 2nd.

"Now to move from here and not give me the correct money is...

INDIO (CNS) – Overnight water pipeline work aimed at enhancing water quality and reliability in a mobile home park will prompt the closure of a portion of Indio Boulevard through early Tuesday.

From 10 p.m. Monday until 4 a.m. Tuesday, the eastbound lanes of Indio Boulevard between Jefferson and Madison Streets will be closed, according to the city of Indio. The work will convert the Elm Mobile Home Park’s private water system to the City of Indio/Indio Water Authority (IWA) system.

“The City/IWA entered into an agreement with the State Water Resources Control Board to provide a safe and reliable water supply to the 48 households in Elm’s...

LAURINBURG — 63-year-old Tina Perry has lived at the Town and Country Estate mobile home park, situated between the new and old Hillside Cemeteries in Laurinburg, for 36 years.

The land was recently acquired by Park Haven Management and, along with new ownership, an order to vacate the park. Perry, who owns her home but rents the plot of land it sits on, remains undaunted and is currently crusading against the new owners to keep her home where it has been for over half her life.

Town and country mobile home park is comprised of homeowners and renters. Approximately eight to ten individuals own their homes and rent the land, whereas six to...

(ABC 6 News) – There will be a public hearing about the closing of Bob’s Trailer Park on Monday.

The Rochester city council will review the park owner’s closure statement and assess the impact the park’s closing could have. Bob’s was bought by “TSJ Parks LLC” in 2021, with plans to turn the trailer park into low-income housing for seniors.

ABC 6 News has reported on several issues this trailer park faced before, including the public health and safety concerns related to a compromised water system.

This past October residents were officially given their notice to leave, but some residents say they never received a notice and were told they...

This story was originally produced by the Concord Monitor. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative.

An affordable, manageable starter home in New Hampshire can come in many different shapes and sizes – a small single-family home, an accessory dwelling unit on an existing lot, a manufactured home, or even a tiny house, on a small tract of land.

However, due to the discrepancy of zoning codes and ordinances statewide, some of these housing options are practically off the table in certain communities.

A new tool from researchers at Saint Anselm College, the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas, provides an...

A mobile home being towed on a trailer slid onto the road at Loop 564 and U.S. 69 on Friday afternoon.

The incident has reportedly blocked traffic in the Mineola intersection, and at the time of reporting, is still being cleared.

In the Indianapolis eviction court where my students and I work, Jessica and her family come to court in a panic. Jessica contracted COVID-19 and missed several weeks of work, which caused her to fall behind on the rent she owed to a mobile home park. Now she and her elderly mother and a brother living with disabilities, who all live together in the family home, are facing eviction.

The good news: Jessica and her family came to court with several folded and dog-eared money orders they had cobbled together, which together added up to the rent due. The bad news: the landlords say they won’t dismiss the eviction case unless Jessica pays for...

RUSKIN, Fla. — A Hillsborough County woman said the owners of her mobile home park forced her to take down her security cameras within seven days, claiming she was breaking the law.

But the ABC Action News I-Team has learned where and how you can use security cameras is not always clear in Florida.

“I had a camera right here,” said Joni Evans, who lives in the Captain’s Landing Mobile Home Park in Ruskin. “And there was another camera right here.”

Evans said she bought the cameras more than six years ago after someone burglarized her tool shed, painting a racial slur and cutting down her pride flag.

“It had my wife just thoroughly upset....

A new 16,500-square-foot medical and retail development could break ground in Callahan before the year’s end. 

An application had not been filed with Callahan Town Hall as of Tuesday, according to town officials.  

The proposed Coastal Callahan Center is planned at 541299 U.S. 1, in the same location as the present Pinetree Trailer Park. E.H. Callahan, LLC is listed as the new property owner, according to the Nassau County Property Appraiser’s Office website. The property currently consists of 10 mobile home lots and two structures. Only a few mobile homes appear occupied. 

The 5.24-acre mixed-use development is part of Jacksonville-based...

Four mobile home parks in the region recently voted to form a cooperative in order to counteract some of the issues they experience. 

Residents of all four mobile home communities in the area are facing rent hikes of between 11% and 101%. (See accompanying chart) 

According to the National Cooperative Business Association, manufactured housing is susceptible to unique concerns. Since residents only own their homes, and not the land that their homes are on, they can be subject to poor infrastructure. This issue was exemplified by the Appaloosa Court situation when residents experienced problems with their water supply.

In March, Victoria...

I have always been a fan of manufactured and modular home building. Converting home building from a site-built production system to a manufactured product is supposed to reduce waste and create a higher-quality product. Manufacturing is also supposed to be faster and less expensive.

That’s the promise, but I wonder if manufacturing will ever live up to those expectations.

Throughout home building’s modern history, bursts of momentum have occurred in prefabricated housing. All eventually receded into history. Examples include the pre-war Sears kit homes, the post-war Levitt & Sons and Lustron offerings, and the mobile home boom of the...

The journey from eyesore to internet fame can be fleeting. And fatal.

Just ask the crumbling mobile home that for a couple of weeks sat on the side of a Terrebonne Parish road after the trailer carrying it away broke down. Because it was falling apart, the mobile home was pushed to the side of the road in Schriever, where it was left, blue tarps flapping in the wind.

The humble abode, however, was on the cusp of a social media stardom. A Thibodaux resident grew tired of seeing the dilapidated structure on West Park Avenue day after day.

“We would pass and say, ‘That’s hideous,’” said the man, who wishes to remain anonymous.

So he...

The Red Oaks mobile home park off Benns Church Boulevard may change hands for the first time in 35 years.  According to a state notice, the 178-lot community went on the market April 28 for a listed price of $15 million.  The Virginia Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act requires mobile community landlords to provide their tenants and the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development with written notice at least 90 days ahead of accepting any purchase offer.

Brent Bollin, a resident of the park since 1996, told The Smithfield Times he received his copy of the notice in the mail on May 1.  The notice lists Coastal Investors LLC of...