Mobile Home Park News Briefing

(Missoula Current) The residents of a small trailer park moved closer this week to owning the land under their homes after members of the Missoula City Council agreed to dedicate funding from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund toward the effort, pending the outcome of a public hearing.

But the $181,000 allocation to convert the mobile home park, located in the Franklin to the Fort Neighborhood, to a community-owned residence effectively depletes the Trust Fund's reserve balance of all revenue.

Emily Harris-Shears, the city's housing policy specialist, said that while draining the reserve account may leave a new project unfunded, the money...

In the first half of last year, more than 50,000 manufactured homes were shipped across the country — a 31% year-over-year increase, according to the latest numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The average sale price was $124,900, and while that number represents a two-year increase of nearly $40,000, manufactured homes remain an affordable option for an inventory-depleted U.S. housing market.

While 22 million Americans live in manufactured homes, according to the Manufactured Housing Institute, there remains a stigma nationally, as many people revert to memories of ill-kept mobile home parks. Mobile homes, legally defined as such because...

EMMETT TWP. — The Calhoun County Public Health Department is investigating a sewage overflow within Evergreen Oak Forest Mobile Home Park.

In a Wednesday release, county health officials said they ordered the owner of the park to correct the issues causing the failure of the sewer system after receiving several complaints from residents.

There are approximately 165 residents within the park, and park management has relocated two families to other trailers in the park as a result of the ongoing issues, county officials said.

The Health Department is not in the process of evicting anyone from the park at this time, nor has the park been...

Lacey City Council on Thursday approved a plan to study mobile homes in the area, a year after a resident raised concerns about the future of his own home. In December 2021, the resident sought a rezone of Mountain Greens, a mobile home park in the 5200 block of 55th Lane Southeast, wanting to change the zoning from low-density residential. The resident feared that under its current zoning the mobile home park could be sold and residents evicted so the property could be redeveloped. Mobile home owners own their homes, but typically rent the underlying land from the park owner.

The rezone request was not added to the Lacey Planning...

Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott and the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) announced the launch of the Manufactured Home Improvement and Repair Program (MHIR)(link is external), offering financial assistance to manufactured home communities (commonly known as mobile home park) as well as current and prospective manufactured home owners. The program, funded by $4 million from the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), will provide financial assistance for park improvements, home repair and foundation installation.

“The MHIR program is focused on revitalizing an important part of the State’s affordable...

Palo Alto City Council acknowledged tonight (Feb. 13) that residents of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park will deal with stress and anxiety as the Santa Clara County Housing Authority relocates them and replaces their homes.

“You‘re going to be forced to move out. You’re going to have to make large purchasing decisions,” Vice Mayor Greer Stone said to Buena Vista residents in the room. “We feel that anxiety that all of you are going to experience over the next several years.”

Flaherty Ward, the director of real estate for the housing authority, told council that all residents can return to the park after its renovated, and nobody should...

STOCKTON -- Isabel Lopez has lived across from the Stockton Park Village mobile home park at 1914 Auto Drive for years. She watched with a smile on her face as a long-awaited cleanup took place.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office, along with other agencies, conducted 35 dump runs and collected 196,180 pounds of trash from the mobile home park last month, according to data released last week.

"I feel very happy honestly because before it was such an awful mess," Lopez said in Spanish. "...other people would come to throw away trash, it was like a dump site and there was a lot of animals."

The cleanup effort happened after a court...

A pair of Republican-sponsored bills intended to help mobile-home park residents weather Montana’s acute housing shortage drew vehement opposition from park owners, real estate agents and the Montana Landlord Association in their initial hearings Monday morning.

House Bill 429, sponsored by Rep. George Nikolakakos, R-Great Falls, would require the owners of mobile-home parks with more than 50 units to give residents 60 days notice if they sell the property. It also requires owners to review counteroffers if a residents’ association uses that time to organize in an effort to purchase the park.

House Bill 428, sponsored by Rep. Mike...

Michael Walls has taken a liking to the small town of Jackpot, Nevada.

“We fell in love with this little community,” Walls said, after moving there two years ago with his wife.

The small, unincorporated community of mostly casino and hotel workers, sits on U.S. Highway 93 just south of the Idaho-Nevada border.

Walls provides security for Barton’s Club 93, and he said the employees at the casino and motel have bonded like family.

But now, with changes coming to the mobile home park he’s living in and limited housing options available, he said “we might be on our way out.”

Walls and many other Jackpot residents became concerned...

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — Time is ticking for the people living at a St. Joseph County mobile home park to vacate their homes.

Hollywood Mobile Home Park is being cleared away to be prepped for sale.

Residents tell WSBT they have become so desperate, they turned to the mayor.

During last week's "Meet the Mayor" event, a couple of them went hoping to get help.

The mobile home park is not within city limits, so there was not much Mayor Mueller could offer.

Indiana State code requires mobile home park owners to give 180-days’ notice before closing the property.

t does not specify financial assistance to help with move out.

The 41...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Residents of Euclid Beach Mobile Home Park will be meeting this afternoon to voice their displeasure over the Neighborhood plan The Western Reserve Land Conservancy (WRLC) announced Thursday that they will be displacing the residents and turn the land into green space as part of the Cleveland Metroparks System

Over 100 people will have their homes lose their homes.

The mobile home park sits on the site of the former iconic amusement park Euclid Beach Park, will become part of the city’s park system with hopes that it will be managed by the Cleveland Metroparks.

This comes after an extensive land-use study and...

PRINCETON, W.Va. (WVVA) - Mobile home park residents across Mercer County, W.Va. said Thursday they’re facing increased pressure to vacate their homes. Three different residents WVVA spoke with said they received the exact same notice on Wednesday -- adding requirements from managerial approval to sell one’s home, to requirements surrounding lawn care, pet ownership, home alterations and much more. Those new requirements all came following a near-doubling of lot rents in at least five mobile home parks in the county, all of which those we spoke with Thursday currently reside in.

Residents WVVA spoke with said such requirements had never...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — 8 On Your Side is helping a local mobile home community fight an unexpected rent and tax increase, cutting through the red tape and showing them a path to challenging the double whammy.

8 On Your Side talked to residents at the Sunshine Mobile Home Park in St. Petersburg who say the latest rent like has them feeling devastated.

“It usually matches the social security increase each year, close to that, but this time it’s almost three times as much,” Donna Pettaway said.

According to a notice from the park’s owner, residents will also be charged $957 for the ad valorem tax and $42 for the non-ad valorem tax.

“Most...

A former manager of a mobile home park in Mount Vernon is facing charges of theft and fraud after police say he lied to his employer about damages in the 2020 derecho.

Antonio Govea, 44, of Mount Vernon, is charged with ongoing criminal conduct, first-degree theft, money laundering, first-degree fraudulent practice and two counts of forgery.

Govea was employed as the park manager of Colonial Estates Mobile Home Park at 1225 First Ave. NW, Mount Vernon, between July 1, 2020, and May 15, 2022, according to a criminal complaint.

After the derecho, Govea told Birch Realty, the company that owns the park, that certain mobile homes there had...

As mobile homes continue to be displaced by development, a bipartisan bill aims to increase funding to a program to provide relief to those impacted. 

Mobile homes have been vanishing across the Valley most often being replaced by luxury apartments or similar developments. The Phoenix City Council earlier this year approved $300,000 for legal services for three mobile home parks facing similar issues but advocates have said it hasn’t been enough. 

The proposed legislation would increase the allotments dispersed by the Mobile Home Relocation Fund by more than 60% for some cases. It also increases the amount the landlord must pay to the...

I commend Gov. Tina Kotek’s bold vision in dealing with our current housing emergency, (“Kotek homebuilding target is ambitious, potentially costly and politically fraught, experts say,” Jan. 29). I would suggest that we don’t ignore Oregon’s strong manufactured home industry as one pathway for getting more homes built quickly and affordably.

Modern factory-built homes are manufactured to high standards. They can be built and installed much more quickly than a site-built home. A loosening of zoning restrictions that say where they can be located would go a long way toward meeting the governor’s housing goal and would provide good jobs...

Christmas weekend four Rice County families experienced emergencies related to frozen water pipes, one of which ended up bursting. Fortunately, the Mobile Home Rehabilitation Project (MHRP) assisted the families in identifying and arranging for repairs, as well as coordinating with insurance to cover the costs.

Without access to the MHRP, these families may have been without water and ultimately without housing during the holidays.

The MHRP serves mobile home residents who live within the boundaries of the Faribault or Northfield school districts and are from low-income households, and it prioritizes families with young...

EAST LANSING — Four months ago, 77-year-old Lois Hagy thought she might have to leave her home after 20 years.

Last March she and more than a dozen residents who live in manufactured homes in The Reserve at Falcon Pointe received a letter stating they had to move because the property owner, FP Investors, LLC, was changing the land use to a single-family condominium site.

So the residents, who own their homes but not the property they sit on, were told they had to move by March 11, 2023, or the company would evict them.

“We were supposed to be out of here,” Hagy said.

The company has since had a change of heart.

It communicated its new...

The manufactured housing industry has been on an upward trajectory in the past decade. Drawn by the strong and stable income manufactured homes communities, an increasing number of institutional investors and owner-operators have been diving into the segment. And during periods of economic uncertainty, this asset type is very resilient because it provides a much-needed affordable housing option.

“Mobile home parks are historically a recession-proof asset due to the shortage of affordable housing across the country,” Kevan Enger, partner & manufactured housing director at Capstone Cos., told Multi-Housing News. “It does well in good times...

Rice County commissioners warily took the first steps toward what they say will be a long process to protect the residents in its "last affordable housing" against "bad corporate players."

Commissioners are mulling an ordinance that would require mobile-home communities to give notice if the property is going up for sale and give resident associations the first opportunity to buy the community. Rice County would be the first to enact such requirements, prompting concern from some commissioners over whether it would be legal. 

"I kept reading these articles about other states and these hedge funds and giant corporations buying up these...

Where streets once looked more like rivers in Acampo, life has returned to parts of San Joaquin County evacuated during January's winter storms.

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Olmsted County Public Health began working with the City of Rochester over two years ago in an effort to address ongoing public health and safety concerns at Bob’s Trailer Park.

According to the city, the goal of this collaboration has been focused on creating a safe and healthy environment and bringing the park into compliance with applicable Minnesota laws, administrative rules, and City ordinances and codes.

Olmsted County Housing has worked with impacted individuals to find alternative housing and has shared information on housing resources since December 20, 2022. It continues to work with the City of...

WILTON, Iowa — Dozens of residents at South Towne Mobile Home Park in Wilton, Iowa have had enough after their rent has gone up 54% the past eight months. 

They are outraged at the new management company, Kodiak Property Management, based out of Detroit. They took over about a year ago, and since then residents have not felt at home.

"It was $250 a month rent when I bought the trailer and moved in thinking that I would be able to save money to eventually have a down payment to purchase my own home. And instead, the rent is now $385," said resident Phyllis Wood.

Residents joined together to meet with area lawmakers at a community...

Alongside his mother, aunt, brother and neighbors, Alexis Ortiz lifted shovelful after shovelful of muck from his driveway. It was a gray mid-January afternoon and the first day of real respite from the series of destructive atmospheric rivers that swept through the region earlier in the month.

Twenty-nine years old with short black hair, a stocky build and a countenance softened by exhaustion, Ortiz moved slowly as he stepped away from his muddy driveway and into his muddy living room, brushing past the red notice from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office declaring the structure unsafe to inhabit.

The bleak scene inside offered few...

A Puyallup mobile home park that housed 42 families now sits empty. The few remaining families moved out of Meridian Mobile Estates on Jan. 31, city spokesperson Eric Johnson wrote in an email. One family was finishing moving their belongings the following day. Demolition is expected sometime this spring. The mobile home park at 202 27th Ave. SE had 15 families who hadn’t yet moved in early December, and they had until Jan. 31 to relocate.

Timberlane Partners bought the property the mobile home park sits on for $6.5 million in 2021. The developer plans to build 230 apartments there. “At this point, it is still very early in the process,...