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Maine Morning Star: Bills to help mobile park residents protect homes advance but funding remains an obstacle for some

  •    Originally released by Maine Morning Star on June 5th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on June 13th, 2025

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Building off of a law passed last year, the Maine Legislature has advanced a number of bills that aim to support mobile home park residents in purchasing their parks.

The Senate voted in favor of two of these bills on Thursday. Others have already passed both chambers but still need to be funded.  

“As legislators, we consistently hear that one of the top issues on the minds of Maine people is access to safe, affordable housing,” Sen. Chip Curry (D-Belfast), co-chair of the Housing and Economic Development Committee, said during a press conference following Thursday’s votes. “That’s why our committee has been focused on two deeply...

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On Wednesday, the Senate also passed LD 1016, which would establish the assistance program fund but also a fee to help with ongoing funding. The fee would be paid by certain park buyers equal to $10,000 for each lot in the community. “I want to be very clear, I have no intention to de-incentivize the purchase of these parks by everyone,” said Sen. Cameron Reny (D-Lincoln), the bill sponsor. “There are exceptions to this fee to state and municipal housing authorities, for resident owner cooperatives and for smaller businesses and individuals with net worths of less than $50 million.” However, Sen. Rick Bennett (R-Oxford), who supported the minority committee report recommending against the bill’s passage, said he finds some of the carveouts troubling, specifically the one based on net worth. “It is treating people unfairly based on an arbitrary amount of money that that person or entity owns,” Bennett said. “I believe this is unconstitutional for that reason, although it’s very well intentioned.”

So now Maine is going to charge any park buyer who has more than $50 million of net worth a fee of $10,000 per lot – clearly to make it impossible for them to buy anything in the state. Even one of the idiots in the Maine senate admitted that it’s basically unconstitutional (which I assume means that it will end up in litigation for years and then probably defeated). I would say that all park owners should boycott Maine as a result of this attack on the industry, but the problem is that there is literally nothing anyone buys that comes from Maine except lobster and poorly made L.L. Bean pants.

Forbes: Probing Alternative Solutions To The Affordable Housing Crisis

  •    Originally released by Forbes on June 10th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on June 13th, 2025

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The crisis impacting housing affordability stands among the most pervasive and complicated challenges facing the nation. In virtually every part of the country, housing costs have outstripped incomes. That’s left huge swaths of the population either rent burdened or entirely removed from homeownership. The crisis is most acute in the nation’s largest cities, but smaller cities, towns and rural areas are not immune.

“This isn’t just a question of economics,” says Jonathan Curtis, founder and CEO of Southern California-based real estate development firm Cedar Street Partners. “When people can’t afford stable housing, everything else becomes...

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It underscored the need to modernize how cities think about growth, especially in high-opportunity areas where exclusionary practices still hold sway.

Did Kamala Harris write this? What a bunch of nonsense.

Cascade PBS: WA mobile homeowners, advocates react to new rent stabilization law

  •    Originally released by Cascade PBS on June 3rd, 2025
  •    Commentary made on June 6th, 2025

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Brenda Valdez feels like she can finally exhale.

The mother of two and mobile home owner from Elma in Grays Harbor County said she no longer has to hold her breath waiting for the next lot rent hike to come knocking at her door after Washington state adopted an unprecedented 5% annual limit on rent increases for manufactured home owners last month. 

Valdez said her lot rent — what she pays for the ground under her mobile home — had nearly doubled in the past decade, and she expected to face another $100-a-month increase in July.

“$100 – it’s like worth a week of groceries for my kids, it’s half of my energy bill, it’s a pair...

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After years of fighting for mobile home tenants’ rights, Deb Wilson is celebrating new rent stabilization requirements, signed into law this month, that will cap rent increases for mobile homeowners at 5% per year.

Sure, Deb and her neighbors will celebrate their big win for a while. And then they will get a notice that the park is being closed for redevelopment. None of these idiots apparently understand that by approving the 5% cap on mobile home park lot rent – and 10% on apartments – they signed a death warrant for Washington state parks. Who wouldn’t tear their park down and build apartments – or literally any other use – instead? The answer, nobody. Goodbye mobile home parks, hello new apartment units.

Realtor.com: What’s It Really Like To Live in a Mobile Home, According To Owners and Agents

  •    Originally released by Realtor.com on May 29th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on June 6th, 2025

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Mobile homes are the new starter homes. Between sky-high interest rates, high home prices, and limited availability of real estate overall, becoming a homeowner is something many Americans feel they can't afford.

While renting is a good option for some, others are finding creative ways to live in their desired locations, despite the prohibitive price tag - like mobile homes.

Mobile homes are no longer just the go-to preference of thrifty retirees. Many people from across the age and life-experience spectrum are looking to manufactured homes and accessory dwelling units (ADU) as a new mode of affordable homeownership.

But if you’ve been...

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Mobile homes are the new starter homes. Between sky-high interest rates, high home prices, and limited availability of real estate overall, becoming a homeowner is something many Americans feel they can't afford. While renting is a good option for some, others are finding creative ways to live in their desired locations, despite the prohibitive price tag - like mobile homes. Mobile homes are no longer just the go-to preference of thrifty retirees. Many people from across the age and life-experience spectrum are looking to manufactured homes and accessory dwelling units (ADU) as a new mode of affordable homeownership.

A rare, favorable review of our product. But that’s two weeks in a row so I like the trend.

Hartford Courant: CT mobile home protections bill stalls over rent caps sticking point

  •    Originally released by Hartford Courant on May 30th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on June 6th, 2025

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The Connecticut House of Representatives on Wednesday spent hours debating a bill that would strengthen protections for mobile and manufactured home owners, many of whom are seniors, but decided to stop the discussion in the face of Republican opposition.

The sticking point — even in a limited capacity — was a proposal to create a rent cap.

Mobile home owners typically own their homes, but not the land they sit on. Residents pay rent to the park owner on the land. House Bill 5428 would limit annual rent increases to 2% of rent plus any increases in the annual consumer price index and provide a process for park owners to appeal that limit...

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Republicans opposed it as well, saying it interfered with landlords’ rights and the free market.

Even though the Republicans are right on all counts, Connecticut has a Democrat trifecta of Governor, House and Senate so the Republican voting block in the state has no power at all. But quietly, in the background, many of the Democrats also agree with the Republicans on this. Rent control is housing suicide and has been well proven in all those states that have enacted it. That’s really why they don’t enact rent control.

MSN: Over 50 Houston families evicted from mobile home park — some were charged rent after leaving, advocates say

  •    Originally released by MSN on June 3rd, 2025
  •    Commentary made on June 6th, 2025

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Taking up residence in a mobile home park can be an economical means of putting a roof over one's head.

But more than 50 families at County Road Mobile Home Park in Houston, Texas, were displaced after the land they were living on was sold, according to KHOU 11 News. Residents had until April 8 to move out, and some were forced to spend thousands of dollars to relocate.

Marta De La Garza, who lived in the park with her family for five years, says she had to shell out $9,000 — $3,000 for transportation and $6,000 to set up utilities — to move to a new location.

"We had to pay for the people who moved the mobile home. We had to pay a...

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And another park bites the dust.

Maine Republic: Amid growing interest from out-of-state investors, Maine mobile homeowners ask for more protections

  •    Originally released by Maine Republic on May 28th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on June 6th, 2025

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Dawn Beaulieu lives in a double wide on a corner lot in Friendly Village Mobile Home Park in Gorham.

It's the perfect size for her and terrier mix, Bella.

She has lived in this home for more than two decades and in Friendly Village for close to 30 years. The mortgage, on top of the monthly lot rent of just more than $600, is a lot with her single income, but she makes it work.

"I've paid 22.5 years of a 25-year mortgage. I have two and a half years left," Beaulieu said. "And then I own my home. I am scared to lose it before I get to that point."

She also worries about many of her neighbors in this community of 302 lots, with 263 occupied...

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Fallacy #1: A $600 lot rent is too high in Brunswick, Maine. In fact, it’s far too low. The evidence: the average single family home in Brunswick costs $443,000 and the average apartment is $1,893 per month.

Marieke Giasson, who lives at Bay Bridge Estates in Brunswick, said monthly lot rent typically went up about $15 or $20 a year. She paid $410 a month in 2021. Then, Legacy Communities, an Arizona company that owns about 70 manufactured home parks around the country, bought her park. In the last three years, Giasson said rent has increased by 46%. She now pays about $600 a month.

The fact is that $600 per month lot rent in Brunswick is ridiculously, indefensibly, impossibly low.

Fallacy #2:  The tenants buying a mobile home park for $22 million will yield lower rents. The truth is that the lot rent will be the same in order to cover all operating costs and a $22 million mortgage and down-payment loan.

On Tuesday, the Friendly Village residents submitted their own bid to purchase the park for more than the community's initial asking price of $22 million.

How can the U.S. media be this math and logic challenged?

Mitchell Republic: Renters of city-owned trailer park seek new homes as rental contract terminations loom

  •    Originally released by Mitchell Republic on May 30th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on June 6th, 2025

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MITCHELL – Good intentions have to be backed up with good actions. At least, that's how some tenants at a local trailer park feel about a plan that removes their homes to make way for a city-led housing development.

In early April, the city announced the intent to purchase the 35-unit mobile home park near Hitchcock Park, with the goal of developing the lots for housing and to remove the eyesore along East First Avenue. This meant existing renters would have to relocate and Mitchell Mayor Jordan Hanson made statements about not making tenants move out too quickly. Plans have also been finalized to donate two lots to Habitat for...

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And another park bites the dust.

The Aspen Times: Basalt residents seek support to purchase mobile home parks

  •    Originally released by The Aspen Times on May 29th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on June 6th, 2025

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Basalt Town Council discussed a potential financial contribution to help purchase two, downvalley mobile home parks to help residents retain their housing. 

The Aspen Basalt Mobile Home Park in Basalt and Carbondale’s Mountain Valley Mobile Home Park gave notice to their tenants in late March they were starting the process of either selling the parks to a private buyer or giving residents the opportunity to buy it themselves. 

Residents on Tuesday filled council chambers to discuss purchasing the parks, with the goal of garnering support from local municipalities, as well as Colorado and national nonprofits.

Elizabeth Rivas, an Aspen...

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If it agrees, Basalt could join other local governments to raise $20 million to assist with the purchase of both mobile home parks. Basalt Town Manager Ryan Mahoney and Basalt Town Council members discussed a contribution of $250,000 toward the purchase. The $20 million goal, however, might be difficult for local municipalities to reach on their own.  “It’s looking at this time that the $20 million ask is probably a little tall for the governments, if I had to read the tea leaves,” said Mahoney. 

What’s so frustrating about these articles – which dominate the landscape right now – is that their logic is missing one fundamental reality: the lot rent will be the same or more under resident ownership as it will be under corporate ownership. Here’s why:

  • The cost of every single line item on the P&L is the same whether owned by a non-profit or a for-profit company (water, sewer, electric, insurance, property tax, etc.).
  • The cost of the debt service (mortgage interest and principal payment) is the same whether the buyer is a non-profit or a for-profit corporation.
  • Therefore, the lot rent will be the same regardless of who buys the park – the non-profit has zero financial advantage for the tenants.

But there’s even more to the story. As anyone who has researched the end result of tenant-owned communities knows, the quality of life and the collection of rent go down when the amateur tenants run the property. They can’t evict their friends and they refuse to make cap-x repairs. The managers show favoritism to their friends and zero capability to find new debt when the loans come due. Essentially, a total disaster with a time-delay fuse.

So let’s cut the crap about how tenants buying the properties yields lower rents ad better quality of life. That’s a total lie. Instead, this is really just about virtue signaling. And, in this case, the city manager that offers $250,000 towards a $20 million target knows it’s just a way to get a headline and nothing more. The end.

Marin Independent Journal: Marin Voice: Novato’s manufactured home community on path to resident ownership

  •    Originally released by Marin Independent Journal on May 23rd, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 30th, 2025

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The residents of Marin Valley Mobile Country Club, an affordable, vibrant over-55 manufactured home community in Novato, have been taking the necessary steps toward achieving the long-awaited goal of becoming resident-owned.

The crucial effort, led by MVMCC’s Park Acquisition Corporation, a nonprofit California mutual benefit corporation, of acquiring it from its current owner, the City of Novato, is important for the thriving community, which offers one of few affordable housing opportunities in Marin. The goal is to become a resident-owned cooperative providing affordability, security and independence now and into the future.

Residents...

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They do realize that under “tenant-ownership” their rents will go up a ton, the quality of life will plummet, and they’ll probably default on the loan when it comes due, right? I bet nobody bothered to mention those realities. Just ask those four parks in Canon City, Colorado that are resident-owned and now in foreclosure.

Portland Press Herald: More money could be headed to help Maine mobile home residents

  •    Originally released by Portland Press Herald on May 24th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 30th, 2025

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Lawmakers supported a bill to add $3 million to a fund to help residents purchase their mobile home parks. But its fate hinges on whether it makes it into the budget.

Friendly Village mobile home park in Gorham is one of several in Maine being eyed by out-of-state investors. A bill advancing in the Legislature would help residents make offers to buy their parks instead.

 

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Lawmakers supported a bill to add $3 million to a fund to help residents purchase their mobile home parks. But its fate hinges on whether it makes it into the budget.

Maybe Maine legislators are math challenged, but $3 million in a 70% LTV lending world will only buy $10 million of parks. That might handle one or two parks. Hardly the landmark gesture that has any meaningful consequences. But, of course, it was only about virtue signaling anyway, right?

The Seattle Times: WA renters, landlords prepare for new cap on rent hikes

  •    Originally released by The Seattle Times on May 24th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 30th, 2025

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A monumental change hit Washington’s rental market this month, one in the works for years: caps on rent hikes.

But what it means for cash-strapped residents, and whether it will curb a market where housing costs have soared in recent decades, remains a live question.

Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a bill into law earlier this month capping annual rent hikes at 10% per year for many apartments and 5% at mobile home parks. That means that for a tenant in a $1,500 apartment covered by the new law, their rent could increase to no more than $1,650 in a single year.

Supporters say the new caps offer a commonsense way to give tenants more...

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Washington needs to now prepare for all mobile home parks to be torn down to build apartments. How in the world can you have a 5% cap on mobile home park rents and 10% on apartments? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. So here’s a simple message to all park owners in Washington: 1) go get the permits to build apartments and 2) tear down your park and build as many apartments as you can on the land. Apparently, that’s exactly what the state wants you to do.

But first, let’s see how this holds up in court as it will surely be litigated.

WTOL: 'Unacceptable' conditions prompt city of Toledo to declare mobile home park unfit for human habitation

  •    Originally released by WTOL on May 23rd, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 30th, 2025

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TOLEDO, Ohio — The city of Toledo has declared a neglected south Toledo mobile home park "unfit for human habitation," and told its three remaining households they need to seek alternative housing. 

The city said in a bulletin Friday that Riverside Mobile Home Park, located just off City Park Avenue near the Anthony Wayne Trail, was unsanitary and dangerous, and described living conditions as "inhumane." It said the cause of these problems was "years of owner neglect."

Additionally, the Department of Building and Code Compliance identified structural decay, a lack of water and sewer service, and hazardous electrical conditions. These...

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And another park bites the dust.

Iowa City Press-Citizen: A JoCo supervisors' letter asks local mobile home parks to halt rent hikes, address concerns

  •    Originally released by Iowa City Press-Citizen on May 23rd, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 30th, 2025

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Johnson County leaders are standing by their residents, asking the owner of several manufactured home communities to refrain from raising rent in order to address a litany of safety concerns.

The letter, signed by Johnson County Board of Supervisors Chair Jon Green, calls on Havenpark Communities' "owners and management" to impose a two-year pause on lot rent, "while you work with residents to address these health and safety concerns."

"We feel as though this will help to repair some of the harm and hardships that these residents have had toendure during your acquisition of their neighborhood and the severe decline in services," Green...

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"The Board of Supervisors is constrained from placing any rent-related conditions upon park ownership," Green told the Press-Citizen. "We do, however, request they refrain from further lot rent increases and welcome any dialogue with them."

What a ridiculous concept – a county in a state that has no rent control asking a property owner to voluntarily impose rent control on themselves. Why stop there? Maybe the county should ask the restaurants, grocery stores, car dealerships – every business – to stop raising prices? I’m sure the county will also agree to halt all property tax increases, right? Oops, that’s the one sector that’s off-limits, right? “Rules for thee but not for me” in action.

Tri City Record: San Juan Mobile Home Park residents voice grievances

  •    Originally released by Tri City Record on May 24th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 30th, 2025

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Residents of San Juan Mobile Home Park are bracing for a steep rent hike that threatens to upend their lives. With rates set to nearly double by July, longtime tenants say they face a daunting choice: find a way to pay or lose the homes they’ve had for years.

They are speaking out against the new owners’ demands, calling for fair treatment and a chance to stay in the community they’ve built. Some residents gathered across the street from the park to air their concerns.

Kelly Garcia, who has a daughter, age 11, and cares for her grandson, 2, said the rent increase will present an unmanageable burden. She said she was notified the rent will...

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According to Aztec police records, there have been more than 632 calls for service to the San Juan Mobile Home Park in the past two years.

That quote pretty much tells the whole story. This mobile home park was a complete disaster and now a new owner is attempting to turn it around, bring it back to life, and provide a quality living experience for the residents. The new owners are complete heroes for taking on this dump. Anyone with common sense realizes this. However, the writer of this story tries so hard to instead spin the story that the new owners are inhumane tyrants who demand that people clean up their act and pay a fair rent. I’m sorry, but don’t tell me the status quo was great when the police were called literally every day of the week for two straight years!

Golden Transcript: Golden-area groups collaborate to design first-of-its-kind modular home

  •    Originally released by Golden Transcript on May 18th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 23rd, 2025

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Lot No. 7 of the Golden Hills mobile home park is empty right now, but a year from now, it will be the site of a unique modular home.

And, longer-term, locals hope Lot No. 7 will be the beginning of a larger trend that could help hundreds of others across Colorado and beyond.

Golden Hills residents have been working with the Neighborhood Rehab Project, Colorado School of Mines students and staff, and a local housing development company to design a first-of-its-kind modular home that’s affordable, sustainable and scalable.

The 12 Mines students — now Class of 2025 graduates — designed it during the academic year as part of the Capstone...

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This article leaves me very confused. These homes have no HUD seals, yet the city is letting them go into a mobile home park (in which HUD seals are typically required). Did anyone bother to research this fact? Is the city waiving this requirement? Clearly, this is nicer than a regular HUD-code mobile home because it doesn’t suffer from all the bureaucratic requirements to get that HUD seal. But if you remove that requirement, mobile home manufacturers are doomed – the victim to the simple fact that unregulated housing is more attractive.

Post Independent: Glenwood Springs commits $1.5 million to help residents purchase mobile home park

  •    Originally released by Post Independent on May 18th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 23rd, 2025

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Glenwood Springs City Council voted Thursday to move forward with a $1.5 million contribution from the city’s 2C workforce housing fund to help residents of Mountain Mobile Home Park form a cooperative and buy the land beneath their homes.

The 40-unit park, located along U.S. Highway 6 adjacent to Bighorn Toyota, was recently listed for $4.5 million. More than half of its residents earn less than 20% of the area median income, according to city Housing Development Manager Kevin Reyes.

If purchased by a private investor, Reyes warned, the park could face significant rent hikes or redevelopment. Currently, there are no zoning protections or...

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Read how flaky the financial construction of this deal is – and this is just the DOWN PAYMENT:

The $1.5 million city contribution will be split into two installments. The first, up to $750,000, would be disbursed at or near closing. The second would be available no earlier than September, when additional 2C revenue is expected to become available. Thistle confirmed that the cooperative would take out a short-term bridge loan to cover the full closing cost, repaid once the city’s second tranche is issued.

If they can’t even come up with the cash to close, can you imagine how complicated and screwed up the note would be on this deal? Who’s going to personally guarantee the debt when the tenants have zero skin in the game and even the down payment is in the form of an IOU? I’d put the odds of the tenants pulling this off at the usual 1%.

And then there’s this little addition hidden in the bottom of the story:

The project’s financial pro forma, included in council packets, estimates an average lot rent increase of $135 per month for residents with the full city contribution factored in …

So the rent is going up $135 per month on day one of the tenants buying the park? Did anyone bother to tell the tenants that? A corporate buyer would not go up nearly that much in rent.

As usual, this non-profit virtue signaling simply leaves the tenants with a more than uncertain future – with basically higher lot rent, poorer management, and probably a loan default within 5 years (just like those 4 parks already in foreclosure in Canon City, Colorado with ROC, featured in the last few weeks).

NBC MIAMI: ‘I'm staying': Deadline arrives for Li'l Abner Mobile Home Park residents to move out

  •    Originally released by NBC MIAMI on May 19th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 23rd, 2025

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Hundreds of people living at a Sweetwater mobile home park are now forced to find somewhere else to live as the official deadline for their move out arrived Monday. Still, some say they're not going anywhere.

Li'l Abner Mobile Home Park is where more than 900 residents first received eviction notices last November, learning they'd have until May 19 to move out.

The owners of the park have already started demolitions of vacated mobile homes, but some residents have stayed till the end.

On Monday, the community looked as if a tornado had torn through. Some houses stood, and others were already knocked down.

In some spots, the ground was...

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And another park bites the dust.

Lookout Santa Cruz: RTC stands firm on June 30 deadline for mobile home parks encroaching on Coastal Rail Trail

  •    Originally released by Lookout Santa Cruz on May 16th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 23rd, 2025

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Santa Cruz County’s transit agency is sticking to a June 30 deadline for property owners of two Live Oak mobile home parks to move homes and other structures off land designated for the Coastal Rail Trail. But county officials say they have struck an agreement with one of the parks’ residents to defer any legal action against residents until they can study the issue further.

Last year, residents of Castle Mobile Home Estates and Blue and Gold Star Mobile Home Park received notices from the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission. The notices said the agency had completed a boundary survey and found that some of the homes...

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And another park bites the dust … times two.

M Live: A $2M grant was supposed to revive a mobile home park. Then residents got 4 days to get out.

  •    Originally released by M Live on May 18th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 23rd, 2025

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DEWITT TOWNSHIP, MI - A piece of printer paper stuck to Tina Riggs’ front door gave an official notice: she had four days to move out.

Riggs was shocked by the letter given to residents of Kristana Manufactured Home Park on Friday, March 28. It said due to “declining occupancy rates and the inability to maintain the community’s infrastructure,” the park would close on Tuesday, April 1.

Then on April 2, the water was shut off.

Riggs, 62, is now one of a handful of residents still living at Kristana – an aging manufactured housing community in DeWitt Township about five miles north of Lansing.

 

“I’m staying here as long as I can,”...

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Mass Live: Ludlow mobile home park tenants call for owner to halt tree removal

  •    Originally released by Mass Live on May 16th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 23rd, 2025

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LUDLOW — Workers continued to fell trees at the West Street Village Mobile Home Community in Ludlow Thursday, the smell of freshly cut wood filling the air, mixing with the sound of a woodchipper.

Several dozen trees that once provided shade and privacy for residents at the mobile home park were reduced to stumps. Some residents say they believe the tree work was being done because they are legally challenging an increase of rent at the park.

“These were mostly all strong and healthy trees,” said resident Ethan Field, the president of the park’s housing association.

 

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Several dozen trees that once provided shade and privacy for residents at the mobile home park were reduced to stumps. Some residents say they believe the tree work was being done because they are legally challenging an increase of rent at the park.

Who would be dumb enough to think that a park owner would spend tens of thousands of dollars because they’re mad at the residents for fighting a rent increase? Only in Massachusetts!

Press Herald: Maine lawmakers consider bill to stop mobile home park sales for 3 months

  •    Originally released by Press Herald on May 14th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 23rd, 2025

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A Wyoming investment firm wants to purchase Friendly Village mobile home park in Gorham as part of a four-state, eight-park deal for $87.5 million. Lawmakers are exploring a bill that would create a three-month moratorium on the sale of mobile home parks

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Week after week, there’s nothing but idiocy coming out of Maine. The good news is that it has among the fewest mobile home parks in the U.S.

The Minnesota Star Tribune: ‘Marshall, please help us’: Residents voice fears at mobile home park closure hearing

  •    Originally released by The Minnesota Star Tribune on May 9th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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MARSHALL, MINN. – Residents of the Broadmoor Valley mobile home park voiced fear, frustration and pleas for help at a city-convened public hearing on the park’s impending closure.

The hearing, a required step under Minnesota law, saw the Marshall City Council appoint a neutral third party to navigate the complex process of closing the park, which has been embroiled in litigation in recent years.

“Marshall, please help us,” park resident Anais Rodriguez said at the hearing on Wednesday night. “We are part of Marshall, we are residents from Marshall, and I want to stay here to continue growing my kids and see them graduate from...

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Prism: Li’l Abner Mobile Home residents run for local office as park faces eviction and displacement

  •    Originally released by Prism on May 13th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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The eerily quiet lull on Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park’s 112th Avenue is routinely interrupted by the clang of a demolition crane. In just four months, half of the mobile home park in Sweetwater, Florida, has been razed to the ground. An old hibiscus bush nurtured by one family for decades is gone. A handful of mobile homes sparsely populates the once-packed community, giving way to a towering new development and leaving ample space for its inevitable replicas across what used to be affordable housing.

Despite an ongoing class-action lawsuit, tenants have chosen to evacuate their own homes before a May 19 deadline in order to secure a...

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph: Report details life in mobile home communities owned by outside entities

  •    Originally released by Bluefield Daily Telegraph on May 10th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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Princeton – Mobile home communities, also known as trailer parks, are facts of life around West Virginia and throughout the nation, but a report compiled by two nonprofit organizations with help from Mercer County residents argues that out-of-state owners are making these parks less than desirable places to live.

In February 2023, Mountain State Justice, a statewide nonprofit legal services and advocacy organization, announced they filed a lawsuit in Mercer County Circuit Court on behalf of the residents in five manufactured housing communities against an out-of-state private equity firm and its affiliates.

The lawsuit’s...

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Yes, as you probably guessed here’s another regurgitation of the earlier West Virginia “private equity groups are evil” narrative, only this time by the “Bluefield Daily Telegraph” which as a subscriber base of … wait for it … a whopping 14,642 individuals. Once again, maybe nobody got the message that Joe Manchin is gone now and West Virginia has a Republican Senate, House and Governor. But who knows, maybe by the time the Democrats win back those three sectors the Bluefield Daily Telegraph might have broken the 20,000 threshold and be a little less irrelevant.