Mobile Home Park News Briefing

A New Jersey-based company that owns mobile home parks and prefabricated residential communities in a dozen states will be Westmoreland County’s largest taxpayer in 2026.

New totals from the county’s tax assessment office reveal United Mobile Homes Properties Inc. has taken the top spot among local taxpayers, replacing the owners of Westmoreland Mall in Hempfield who for decades topped the list of property owners with the most valued assets.

According to the most recent figures, the company’s holdings in the county are assessed at more than $12.4 million, which translates to a market value of more than $140 million.

The company owns more...

Wendy and Phil Durocher took their seats in a dim conference room in the annals of the Pinellas County courthouse and got ready to plead their case. They came armed with a binder of receipts, itemized spreadsheets and photographs of their storm-damaged mobile home, meticulously highlighted and annotated.

After months of agonizing, a county magistrate would soon decide whether the Durochers would be allowed to keep their Palm Harbor home, deemed “substantially damaged” from flooding during Hurricane Helene.

Unless the Durochers could prove the county’s building department had miscalculated, their home would have to be torn down or...

On March 23, Congressman Maxwell Frost (D-FL) introduced new legislation to promote affordable housing and fight back against profiteering Wall Street investors by helping residents purchase and own their parks.[1]  Titled the Promoting Residential Ownership of (PRO) Manufactured Home Communities Act, the act addresses the urgent need to protect manufactured housing residents from greed-driven skyrocketing costs, hostile eviction, and unlivable conditions.[2]

The legislation aims to help residents build wealth and maintain long-term housing stability in the face of those rising costs.[3]  “Manufactured housing should be an opportunity for...

In 2024, a coalition in Arizona successfully changed state law to keep mobile home park owners from restricting certain air conditioners that were considered ugly or noisy.

Now, one of those stakeholder groups is pushing new legislation to improve these communities.

The Arizona Association of Manufactured Home Owners held eight listening sessions with residents, utility companies and groups like the anti-poverty organizer Wildfire AZ to help draft bills that would not only change state law but also add more enforcement.

One bill would require more education for park managers; two others would prevent park owners from charging residents...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - A fishing pole rests on the ground in Elizabeth Small’s backyard. The owner of a mobile home says it needs a few tweaks before she can cast off again.

Small instead spends her focus on yard work this day off.

“I’m so proud of this place. I really am,” she celebrated.

Inside Riverview Mobile Home Park at 2530 South Main Street, Rockford, the 37-year-old finds a slice of peace on her lot. The property is sandwiched between Illinois Route 2, a gateway into downtown, as well as the Rock River — Small’s backyard.

For decades, Chatham Estates Mobile Home Park has been a quiet pocket of affordability for hundreds of families, seniors and immigrants in Cary.

But fears of displacement have loomed over the 27-acre mobile-home community, and now with a planned sale they are a reality.

According to Town of Cary records, Pennsylvania-based luxury builder Toll Brothers is under contract to buy the land at 607 Cedar St. for the Maple Avenue redevelopment project. The property, owned by Curtis Westbrook Sr. for over 40 years, is expected to sell for about $30 million, according to Triangle Business Journal, which first reported the news.

Toll Brothers and...

A mobile home park closure in Mesa is forcing residents to relocate.

Stephania Melton has been fighting to keep a roof over her head ever since she and her four children moved into their three-bedroom trailer in the Hunter Ridge Mobile Home Park more than two years ago.

The 44-year-old cook and kitchen supervisor from Alabama said the trouble began around March of 2024 after payments for several bills were deducted from her bank account simultaneously, leaving her $2 short on her $1,300 monthly rent.

The Hunter Ridge online payment portal locked her out. 

“I wasn’t able to pay my rent,” Melton told Capital B Atlanta while standing outside her home near Jonesboro. “It’s been two years and they still say,...

The Sonoma City Council will hold a study session at their April 15, 2026, meeting, to review and discuss a draft ordinance related to mobilehome park closures and conversions.

This draft ordinance reflects direction previously provided by the City Council and incorporates updates to align with recent changes in state law, including AB 2782 and SB 610. The proposed updates focus on strengthening requirements related to relocation impact reports, notice timelines, relocation assistance, and protections for residents, particularly for lower-income households and individuals with disabilities.

As part of this study session, the Council will...

Sometimes it doesn’t matter how many heavy hitters are on your side or how many of your ducks are in a row, those in a position of power just won’t budge. That was the case at Monday’s Garfield County Commissioner (BOCC) meeting when a group of said heavy hitters, supporting residents of the 98-lot Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park, who want to purchase the park, showed up bright and early for the public comment period. 

Last year, Aspen-Basalt and Mountain Valley mobile home park residents in the Roaring Fork Valley successfully purchased the parks for $42 million. April Long, executive director of the West Mountain Regional Housing...

Galanis and Vayo, along with Abby Bronson, director of policy and advocacy at the Community Loan Fund, participated in a forum entitled “Home Sweet (Extra) Home: How ADUs and other alternatives can boost housing supply in NH.” The April 2 webinar was hosted by NH Business Review.

Housing supply and its affordability are an important workforce issue in New Hampshire, according to Galanis.

She offered data that shows how New Hampshire is making progress on replenishing its housing supply, but that it needs to happen at a faster pace and it needs to be more affordable.

In a Congress largely marked by gridlock, housing may soon be an exception. Or, if the effort to pass the current housing bill falls short, it could be yet another confirmation of federal dysfunction.

As Kim Johnson, senior director of policy at the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), observes, “Something needs to be done on housing, and a lot of that stems from members of Congress simply hearing from their constituents.” She cautions, though, that “the trickier question has always been, What is that thing or things that need to be done?”

In this year’s Congress, housing legislation has moved quite far, with each house of...

There’s a simple reality getting lost in the conversation around rent control in Pennsylvania: it doesn’t protect affordability. It reduces it over time. This isn’t theoretical. Extensive studies show rent control lowers housing quality, discourages investment, and ultimately reduces the supply of affordable housing.

I own a manufactured home community in Bedford County. I’m a hands-on operator, and over the past year I’ve invested heavily to improve the property.

When I bought the community, it was neglected. Residents dealt with muddy driveways, overgrown trees, junk accumulation, blighted homes, and rampant drug activity.

Since...

We are your neighbors, but maybe not for long if the wealthy owner of the land underneath our manufactured homes has his way.

Some of us have lived in South Park Estates for 30 years, while others arrived more recently — all drawn to one of the last places in Midtown Anchorage where a working family could actually own a home. We speak English, Spanish, Tagalog, Lao, Thai and Arabic. We value our children, our community, our elders and our stability. But we might lose that security, and the equity we’ve patiently built, if Shaun Debenham closes our park and builds commercial space and luxury apartments on our site.

Mr. Debenham does not...

Former residents of the fire-ravaged Tahitian Terrace mobile home park in Pacific Palisades are no longer waiting to see what happens to the land where their homes once stood.

Instead, they’re organizing—reviving a residents’ association, working with a statewide advocacy group and exploring a plan to collectively buy the property, which was home to about 150 units before the fire, so they can rebuild and return.

For some, the loss was immediate. Chris Russo, who had just closed escrow on a  670-square-foot home near the beach that she had saved up to buy and grow old in, said the fire destroyed the community the very next day.

“This...

After almost a year of advocacy and tinkering, Fortuna’s city council decided last night to adopt a rent stabilization ordinance for the 283 mobile homes within its city limits. 

Last summer, residents of the Royal Crest mobile home park, many of them on fixed incomes and threatened by the possibility of becoming homeless, began clamoring for rules that would govern how much the owners of the park could increase their rents. The back-and-forth negotiations between the residents, the city, and the owners has taken up much of the last nine months. 

Even in its completed form, none of the representatives from the park’s advocacy organization...

More than 200 families living in a mobile home park in Little Havana are urgently seeking help from elected officials and community organizations as they face eviction within the next six months.

Residents at Silver Court Mobile Home Park were notified on March 11 that they must vacate the land by Sept. 30. The notice was sent by The Urban Group, a firm representing the property owner. Those who leave earlier — by May 31 — are eligible for the highest financial incentive.

For many, however, the compensation being offered is not enough.

"I think it should be a specific stipend," State Sen. Ileana Garcia said. "I don't think they should be...

For years, manufactured home park owners across Arizona would restrict what types of air conditioners or cooling devices people used on their mobile homes because they were noisy or ugly. That was until 2024, when a coalition of groups changed state law to make the practice illegal. 

Now a new legislative session is in full swing, and with it the hopes for new tools to improve the experiences of mobile home residents in Arizona.

Kath Noble is the president of the Arizona Association of Manufactured Home Owners, one of the groups involved in changing the 2024 law.

This year, she and other stakeholders around the state spent months in...

For many people, mobile home parks are an affordable place to raise a family or retire. But manufactured housing is also big business in Minnesota for out-of-state buyers.

Cait Kelley shared her reporting on a bill before the Minnesota Legislature that aims to keep parks budget-friendly.

We attempt to make transcripts for Minnesota Now available the next business day after a broadcast. When ready they will appear here.

On a Saturday morning in the ski town of Durango, Colo., a family of five lounges in their pajamas inside a small, rectangular mobile home. This is the trailer Verónica and her family have called home for almost a decade.

Down a narrow hallway, there are a couple of closet-sized bedrooms and a small bathroom with a cheerful gnome shower curtain. But the open-floor-plan living room-meets-kitchen is the preferred hangout space. Right now, a kid's cartoon blares on the TV.

"To the outside world, it might just seem like a tiny little trailer," Verónica said in Spanish. "But to us, it's a home, cozy and full of love, peace and calm."

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WPDE) — Rent for mobile home lots is rising, leaving residents with no recourse. People living in mobile homes reached out to ABC 15 in frustration.

Marcus moved to her home in the Grand Strand in 2020, paying $275 to rent the lot.

Now she's paying $685 for the lot alone, more than double. But she's not the only one facing a hike in lot rent.

Some data shows mobile home lot rents have...

BRADENTON BEACH – During the March 19 city commission meeting, Building Official Rob Perry estimated there were only five to seven inhabited mobile homes left in the 86-unit Pines Trailer Park.

Pines Trailer Park Homeowners Association vice-president Rex Geissler disputed Perry’s assertion and emailed The Sun on March 25 saying that number is closer to 20.

A once-bustling community, the park now has a handful of residences that appear to be inhabited – with cars in the carports, bicycles outside and plants still blooming. Yet, the majority of the mobile homes are empty and some are in disrepair. There have been reports of squatters...

VARNA, N.Y. —  Residents of Hillside Acres mobile home park in Varna are holding out for a miracle most don’t expect will happen.

The mobile home community has waged an all-out effort to purchase the park before an out-of-state-developer does. But ahead of a Wednesday deadline, they still need at least $3 million to make their financing plan work. 

Resident Alan Bitar said the threat of an outside buyer has weighed on the community. He said he worries that the community could “suffer” in the hands of an outside owner.

“What we need is $3 million,” he said on March 26. “There’s somebody out there that wants to protect the community.  We...

More than 200 families living in a Little Havana mobile home park are being forced to leave their homes, raising concerns about displacement and the impact on elderly residents with limited resources.

Residents at Silver Court Mobile Home Park, located near Southwest 8th Street and 32nd Avenue, say they were given six months to vacate after receiving a notice on March 11 from a firm representing the property owner.

The situation mirrors a recent case in Sweetwater, where hundreds of families were also displaced under similar terms, with financial incentives decreasing the longer residents wait to leave.

For 93-year-old Teresa Alvarez, the...

Idaho lawmakers narrowly agreed to send a bill aimed at lowering prices for first-time homebuyers to the governor’s desk on Thursday, continuing a late comeback for housing reform this legislative session.

The House of Representatives voted 36-34 to pass a twice-amended version of Senate Bill 1352, which overrides most local laws that prevent “starter-home subdivisions” — that is, dense, small-lot homes designed to sell for less than typical single-family options. Thursday’s vote teetered on a tie with every vote cast until Rep. Dori Healey, R-Boise, flipped her vote to yes before the final count. Healey could not immediately be reached...