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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.

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.

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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.

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!

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?

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.

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).

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.

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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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.

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!

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.

The Colorado Sun: Colorado’s largest community built from shipping containers is providing a housing road map

  •    Originally released by The Colorado Sun on May 12th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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BUENA VISTA – Jerry Champlin had a plan to help ease the housing crunch in Buena Vista. Why not build a dozen tiny homes around a central courtyard on a residential lot a block from downtown and rent them out for $1,000 a month? 

He bought a small home on a big lot in 2019 and floated his plan. Six years later, he’s about to start renting. But the plan, pushed and shoved by local rules and soaring costs, has changed. 

He’s now stacked 21 shipping containers around the courtyard in a community he’s called BV Basecamp. He built 16 units in 17 of those steel boxes and the rest are community spaces for office work, storage and studios. 

And...

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Years ago the late Tony Hsieh, the founder of Zappos, had his assistant give me a tour of Airstream Village, the mobile home & RV park that he lived in on the bad side of Las Vegas (the guy had $800 million from the sale of Zappos but was eccentric to say the least). As we were walking to Tony’s property, we passed by an abandoned collection of metal container homes in a field. I asked the assistant “what’s that” and they said “Tony experimented building a residential community out of storage containers once, but in the end he decided they just don’t work and he abandoned it – they get too hot and nobody liked them”.

I trust Tony’s instincts on that one.

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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And another park bites the dust…

Oregon Live: Oregon bill would prohibit bans on mobile homes

  •    Originally released by Oregon Live on May 7th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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A bill making its way through the Oregon Legislature would prevent new planned communities from banning manufactured and modular homes.

House Bill 3144 would not impact existing communities, only new communities moving forward. Manufactured units would still be subject to the same design requirements of other homes in a community.

“While successfully addressing the crisis will take many types of creative solutions, frankly, this bill is an easy one,” bill sponsor Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, told the Senate Committee on Housing and Development on Monday afternoon.

Marsh is the chair of the House Committee on Housing and Homelessness. She...

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Another positive industry article (although I don’t agree with the concept that you should be able to place a mobile home on a vacant lot next to a McMansion – which would clearly ruin property values).

Next City: Private Equity Is Turning Mobile Homes Into Health Hazards. What Can Governments Do?

  •    Originally released by Next City on May 9th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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This story is the first in a series on manufactured housing and solutions to help mitigate threats facing mobile home residents, from private equity ownership to climate change.

Four years ago, Valeria Steele’s West Virginia mobile home park was purchased by Homes of America, a subsidiary of well-known “vulture fund” Alden Global Capital. The private equity giant has become infamous for buying distressed newspapers, cutting staff, offloading assets and loading them with debt.

“They don’t make any attempt to sell them,” Steele says. “They don’t make any attempt to repair them. And that’s the norm among a lot of their properties.”

Sure...

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So clearly the folks at MHAction (the radical “free rent” non-profit) has turned their attention to West Virginia and are hoping that an article in NextCity.org (a wokester on-line paper with only 45,000 subscribers) will entice other publications to pump up their fictional narrative that “private equity groups” are now creating “health hazards” by buying up dilapidated trailer parks and bringing them back to life. The only problem is that none of this tale makes any sense. Private equity groups spend big money in the attempt to hit a 20% IRR, which necessitates retention of existing customers, attraction of new customers, enhancement of the property condition to meet lender requirements, and running what was formerly a disorganized mess under mom-and-pop in a business-like manner. I have never seen – in 30 years – a single property that was worse off under a new private equity group owner than it was under mom-and-pop. The narrative that this writer advances that a private equity group would deliberately buy a property to run it into the ground and go bankrupt is absolutely absurd. All this is about, given the players involved, is an attempt to manipulate the West Virginia government into enacting rent control and tenant first-option on sale provisions. Unfortunately for MHAction and NextCity.org, West Virginia currently has a Republican trifecta, meaning the Republican party controls the governorship, the state senate, and the state house – so these wokesters are completely wasting their time.

Planetizen: Poor Conditions in Mobile Home Parks Put Residents at Risk

  •    Originally released by Planetizen on May 11th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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In addition to rising costs and threats of displacement, U.S. mobile home residents face “serious health hazards,” according to a new report from Human Impact Partners and advocacy group Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction).

As Hope Davis explains in an article in Next City, the report used tenant interviews, information from mobile home operator Homes for America, and public records to understand how poor infrastructure and deteriorating conditions put manufactured home residents at risk from extreme heat and cold, poor water quality, and unhealthy air. “In the report, researchers documented water quality violations at five Homes of...

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As predicted, some goofy website called Planetizen.com (audience of 40,000 subscribers) has regurgitated the absurd article from NextCity.org almost verbatim, in an attempt to brainwash you into becoming a woke idiot. Did it work?

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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And another park bites the dust…

Marshall Independent: Broadmoor residents speak out on planned park closure

  •    Originally released by Marshall Independent on May 9th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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MARSHALL — Residents of the Broadmoor Valley mobile home park said it’s a place they’ve called home — and they were calling for help to keep it from being closed down.

“We are part of Marshall. We are residents from Marshall, and I want to stay here,” resident Anais Rodriguez said during the hearing.

“It would be really hard for me to start all over,” another resident said in a written statement read at the hearing.

More than 60 people, including Broadmoor Valley residents and Marshall area community members, attended a public hearing held by the Marshall City Council on Wednesday night. The city was required to hold the hearing as part...

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And another park bites the dust…

Miami News Times: Diego Waisman's Sunset Colonies Documents Miami's Endangered Mobile Home Communities

  •    Originally released by Miami News Times on May 8th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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In late 2024, the residents of Sweetwater's Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park were told the park would close to make way for an affordable housing complex. Some community members took $14,000 buyouts, but others have stayed and filed a class action lawsuit against the park's owner, CREI Holdings, in an effort to stop the evictions. The jury's still out on what will happen to the remaining residents of the community, but the phenomenon of underprivileged locals losing their homes to a rapidly changing Miami is becoming increasingly common.

The mobile home communities that once proliferated throughout South Florida's urban landscape have one after...

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And an itemization of many parks that have bitten the dust …

KNOP News 2: North Platte City Council endorses mobile home park

  •    Originally released by KNOP News 2 on May 8th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 16th, 2025

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NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) - The need for quality, affordable housing persists across Lincoln County.

Projects like the Mulligan Meadows Housing Subdivision and a number of apartment complexes have made a dent in the housing crisis. Tuesday, the North Platte City Council endorsed another project that would drastically aid in addressing the housing crunch as well.

Nebraska-based Chief Industries has purchased a 43-acre, undeveloped lot along East Philip Street and South Bicentennial Avenue in Eastern North Platte.

“We have an agreement to obtain the 6.13 acres north of the Twin Platte NRD. So, right now we’re going through some design...

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A rare, positive article on mobile home parks. Great!

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.

TRI CITY RECORD: Big changes coming as new owners start at San Juan Mobile Home Park

  •    Originally released by TRI CITY RECORD on May 6th, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 9th, 2025

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After decades of deteriorating conditions and hundreds of police calls, a troubled Aztec mobile home park is set for transformation. New owners plan to address crime, blight, and infrastructure issues that have long frustrated city officials.

The San Juan Mobile Home Park, located at 305 N. Light Plant Road in Aztec, was recently purchased by Capital Communities, which operates 70 mobile home parks across the U.S. Built in 1960 with over 85 spaces, the park will now operate under new regulations, and cleanup efforts are already underway.

The new owners have informed residents of their policies, which include the removal of non-running...

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Here’s a story of new owners bringing an old mobile home park back to life. How come we don’t hear more of these stories from the media? These types of owners should be celebrated as the true heroes of affordable housing!

OPB: Washington state rent cap legislation brings reprieve to senior tenants of manufactured homes

  •    Originally released by OPB on May 1st, 2025
  •    Commentary made on May 9th, 2025

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Robin Zorich and her husband have lived seven years at a manufactured home in Woodland Park East, a 55-year-old mobile home park north of Vancouver, Washington. Although she owns the house, she rents the land it sits on.

The couple downsized from their house in Vancouver, where they had lived for 20 years, before moving into the mobile home, believing that it was easier to get around in a single-level home.

Their rent has gone up every year, rising from $610 when they purchased the home in 2017 to $1,300 per month. These days, they’re cutting costs to make the payments.

Yet a reprieve came Sunday when the state House and Senate passed the...

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Everyone saw rent control coming in Washington state, so I’m not shocked. Just disappointed in how stupid the state legislators in Washington are. As a result of their actions, there will be no new supply of housing in the state, nor will anyone put a penny into cap-x since you can’t ever get the money back. And all the mobile home parks will eventually be torn down and redeveloped into better uses that have no rent control (think retail center, etc.). Total idiots.