Mobile Home Park News Briefing

Less than half an hour drive away from the shiny skyscrapers of downtown Miami, what is left of the Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park bleeds out in the sun like an open, festering wound.

The once-lively streets are empty, and the weeds are taking over. Row after row of colorful trailers stare at the casual passerby through their dark, empty windows, the odd open door swinging back and forth in the wind like an eerie wave of welcome. 

Each one of them has a big red cross on the side, accompanied by a sign reading: “You have been evicted from these premises.”

This site was approved for more than 900 apartments.

By next June, 60 households in north Charlotte will be forced out to make way for new development. Forest Park Mobile Home Park off Prosperity Church Road — a community with a large immigrant population — is where many have grown up and established a community. But by June 21, families who’ve planted decades of roots and invested thousands into their homes will have to leave it all behind to make way for the vision of developer Wood Partners. That vision includes transforming the land into a complex of apartments, townhomes and some commercial — emulating new developments popping up across the Charlotte metro area. Since this summer,...

A storm-damaged, repeatedly flooded mobile home park near Derby Lane will become a multifamily housing complex, despite environmental concerns.

Plans to permanently evacuate the Twin City Mobile Home Park began after Hurricane Idalia in 2023. Hurricanes Helene and Milton exacerbate ongoing issues; however, a handful of households have remained throughout the recently launched demolition process.

Pinellas County Commissioners unanimously approved a zoning change Tuesday at 10636 Gandy Boulevard to facilitate the property’s redevelopment. The 8.94-acre parcel was home to Twin City for 71 years.

Former resident Erin Roth urged commissioners...

CASPER — When Lynette Grant woke up in late October to a notice detailing a 56% jump in rent taped to the door of her mobile home, it didn’t take long to start questioning why the increase was so drastic — and how it was even allowed.

Grant worried what the surge from $400 to $625 beginning in January 2026 would mean for her neighbors in Westside Mobile Home Court in Mills on fixed incomes and brought her concerns to a city of Mills work session in November, where she was informed the city had little power to help the community.

In the aftermath of the lot rent increase notice, Grant’s research pointed her to a glaring issue for...

Charlotte-based Wood Partners on Dec. 15 received rezoning approval for 19.5 acres along Prosperity Church Road, between Butner Trail Lane and Nada Park Circle. It has plans for a development with 395 multifamily and townhome units and 25,000 square feet of retail and restaurant use.

Wood Partners received approval to build 395 residential units and retail space on nearly 20 acres along Prosperity Church Road, displacing current mobile home park residents.

Six homeowners at a mobile home park in Aztec, New Mexico, allege in a new lawsuit that a Tennessee-based company violated state laws when it abruptly imposed new park rules, fees and lease terms on tenants and then used those illegal measures to threaten eviction.

The New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, a nonprofit legal aid organization, filed the lawsuit late last week on the tenants’ behalf against Capital Communities PM LLC, which owns mobile home parks across the country, including the San Juan Mobile Home Park in Aztec. 

According to the lawsuit, Capital Communities bought the 85-lot property in April and then a month later...

TRENTON — Legislation sponsored by Senator John Burzichelli and Senator Paul Moriarty that would give homeowners in mobile home parks the opportunity to keep their homes by purchasing the parks before they are sold or converted for other uses, was approved by the Senate today. 

The bill, S-3913, known as the “Manufactured Home Park Protection Act,” would give resident homeowners of mobile and manufactured homes the right of first refusal if the owners of their home parks anticipate selling or changing the use of the land. 

“This will give residents of mobile home parks the opportunity to remain in their homes and preserve their...

CASPER — When Lynette Grant woke up in late October to a notice detailing a 56% jump in rent taped to the door of her mobile home, it didn’t take long to start questioning why the increase was so drastic — and how it was even allowed.

Grant worried what the surge from $400 to $625 beginning in January 2026 would mean for her neighbors in Westside Mobile Home Court in Mills on fixed incomes and brought her concerns to a city of Mills work session in November, where she was informed the city had little power to help the community.

In the aftermath of the lot rent increase notice, Grant’s research pointed her to a glaring issue for seeking...

Hundreds of Bell residents protested against the plan to close two mobile home parks during the city council meeting on Wednesday. 

The city of Bell owns both of the mobile home parks, which house about 300 families. The plan aimed to redevelop the land into new affordable housing, seniors homes, retail, restaurants and entertainment spaces. 

Residents expressed their concern that they'll lose their homes and possibly be priced out of their neighborhoods.

"A lot of folks just found out about this decision," protester Clarisa Perez said. "A lot of folks are scared to lose their homes, especially during this holiday season."

In a statement,...

Matthew Clevenger and his family signed a rent-to-own lease on a mobile home at Greenmount Station in April because he said the property manager told them about a “new promotion” that would allow them to pay it off in half the time. The owner, a limited liability company called Homes of America, would apply the $600 lot rent the family pays to lease the land, as well as their $500 monthly payment for the trailer, toward the purchase price, he said.

But Homes of America recently sent notices informing Greenmount Station tenants it is ending all rental leases. Renters can either buy their mobile homes from the company or will be required to...

Residents of Fairfax County’s manufactured home communities pressed county leaders yesterday (Tuesday) to do more to protect the properties from redevelopment and those who live there from displacement.

“We don’t want to be moved out of the county — we’d like to stay in our homes,” said Denia Moya, a resident of the Harmony Place Mobile Home Park (8018 Richmond Highway) in Hybla Valley.

That Route 1 complex of about 70 homes is one of seven manufactured-home properties totaling 1,769 units across the county. Typically, residents own the homes but rent the land, leaving them vulnerable to redevelopment and increasing...

The San Jose Housing and Community Development Commission is recommending not to raise rents for residents living in the city’s 58 mobile home parks.

A majority of commissioners on Thursday didn’t support a proposed 10% increase to space rents once a mobile home is sold. The city Housing Department proposed the increase as a way to provide more revenue for capital improvements as it updates its decades-old mobile home rent policy. Commissioners voted 9-4 to accept only changes to the policy that conform with Assembly Bill 2782, which ended long-term leases from being exempt from excessive rent hikes.

Under the existing policy, property...

One of America’s most affordable paths to homeownership is slipping away.

At manufactured home parks – sometimes called trailer parks or mobile home parks – rents are rapidly rising due to large-scale buyouts by private equity firms.

“Twas the weeks before Christmas, both parks in despair, not a manager stirred — not a soul seemed to care,” approximately 20 people read together Wednesday in King Arthur mobile home park, in a parody of the 1823 holiday poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”.

King Arthur and Mountain Meadows mobile home parks, off U.S. 191 between Bozeman and Four Corners, were under contract to prospective buyer Cabrillo Management Corporation, a San Diego-based property investment company, as of Wednesday.

Gathered next to the King Arthur Park clubhouse, picketing residents, Bozeman Tenants United members and politicians passed around a megaphone to...

This year, after more than seven years of planning and construction, the first Ponderosa Mobile Home Park resident to get a home through a partnership with the City of Boulder and Habitat for Humanity moved into her new net-zero triplex.

Across the street, a similarly sized two-bedroom house is selling for about three-quarters of a million dollars. But the Ponderosa resident, who wished to remain anonymous, paid less than $200,000 for her home. 

“I’m very fortunate, I realize,” she said. “To be living in Boulder in an inexpensive home is pretty amazing.” 

Tenants were forced to leave the park on Nov. 17, months after the city of Toledo first condemned the property in May.

For years, factory-built homes have been treated as housing's last resort: the “trailers” you drove past on the edge of town, not the place you aspired to build wealth.

That stigma is now colliding with a new reality. As home prices and construction costs keep climbing, everyone from federal lawmakers to celebrity designers and community-based nonprofits are suddenly looking to off-site construction—homes built in factories and assembled on-site—as a way to add more housing, faster and at a lower price point.

In Washington, DC, that shift is crystallizing in the Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream (ROAD) to Housing Act of 2025, a...

In California, mobile homes make up to 6% of the state’s housing stock. With as many as 300,000 homes in 5,000 mobile home parks in the state, they play a critical role in providing affordable housing. But state laws and efforts by for-profit developers to buy up mobile home communities are putting this kind of housing at risk. We talk to experts about the challenges mobile home owners face.

Guests:

Bruce Stanton, general counsel, Golden State Manufactured Home Owners League

Mary Currie, resident, Marin Valley Mobile Country Club

Randy Keller, advocacy manager, manufactured home parks acquisition, California Center for Cooperative...

The top Senate Democrat on the congressional Joint Economic Committee launched a new probe Monday into investment firms that hold large stakes in mobile home parks.

Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire has asked six firms to produce internal documents and materials showing the impact their business practices have had on mobile home residents and the profits their investments have generated.

About 22 million people in the U.S. live in mobile home communities across the country, and in recent years, investment companies and private equity firms have bought up many of the parks.

The firms that received letters include some of the biggest...

A mobile home park in North Charlotte is being sold to developers, resulting in the displacement of the large immigrant community that have called the park of 60-plus lots home for as long as 20 years.

Forest Park Mobile Homes is located in a rapidly expanding and sought-after area. The nearby I-485 loop allows easy access to the rest of the city, and the Prosperity Church area offers walkability to small businesses, a Publix, and a movie theater.

Wood Partners, the developer who is purchasing the Forest Park land, filed a rezoning petition with the City of Charlotte to demolish the mobile homes and replace them with multi-family units,...

JAY — When the Select Board meets this Monday, it may have enough information to move ahead on a request to limit rent increases on mobile home lots.

At its Nov. 24 meeting, the board asked Town Manager Shiloh LaFreniere to consult with the town’s attorney on whether state law allows Jay to regulate such rent hikes.

“I’m hoping to have the information back from our attorney in time for the meeting (Monday),” LaFreniere said Wednesday. “It’s complicated because other municipalities that have acted have different forms of government, so we need to find out just what we can do as a town with a Select Board (and town meeting and manager) form...

San Jose mobile home residents say the city blindsided them by proposing changes that will increase rents.

The Housing Department is considering an update to its mobile home rent policy that would include a one-time rent increase up to 10% whenever a mobile home is sold, among other changes. Under the existing policy, property owners are allowed a 3% to 7% rent increase on each parcel every year. Anything more than that will require city approval, and they can’t increase rent to market rate prices except when the property is abandoned, the resident is evicted or when a sale falls through.

Residents said the city conducted no outreach to...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Missouri Congressman Emanuel Cleaver says he wants to eliminate a 51-year-old federal law that drives up housing costs.

Representative Cleaver (D-MO) said the Housing Supply Expansion Act of 2025 would remove a requirement that forces manufactured homes to include a permanent chassis - even after installation.

Cleaver says removing the chassis requirement would:

• Lower construction costs
• Increase design flexibility
• Open more locations for affordable housing
• Help young and low-income families buy homes

CHESHIRE — Improvements at the Berkshire Village manufactured home park are mostly done, according to its owners, but residents say the fixes are the bare minimum and more must be done. 

Last week, Crown Communities' Justin Damore, who is the lead engineer on the repair project, explained the renovations to the Cheshire Select Board, which acts as the park's rent control board. The fixes, which are mostly concentrated around the park's septic system and were flagged by the state Department of Environmental Protection, must be complete before Crown can raise rents on the park's tenants, many of whom were in attendance. 

Damore, who...