• The Navarre Village 55 and older community is lobbying Ohio legislators to establish a rent control policy statewide.
• Village residents are irked that their monthly property rental rate shot up to $425 per month from $355 under new ownership.
• About 150 residents attended a public meeting recently and may form a tenants association to lobby state officials on rent control.

BETHLEHEM TWP. – Betty Holland has been a content Navarre Village resident for 13 years, but her view took a turn last fall when new owners of her manufactured home community upped the rent.

"I've always felt happy and safe here. Then all of the sudden — wham!" said...

The legal battle over more than two dozen trees felled at a Tampa mobile home park just ended in a court decision.

The tree cutting business will be fined $234,000, according to a City of Tampa memo.

The 2019 tree-clearing at the Life O’ Reilly mobile home park on Gandy Boulevard took down 28 trees, including nine large old oaks considered “grand” trees.

The incident — which dismayed tree advocates and was called an “egregious violation” by Tampa Mayor Jane Castor — came on the heels of a new state law barring local governments from regulating tree removal.

The city originally sought $420,000 each in fines from the park’s owner as well as...

The five people who were killed when a tornado barreled through their Missouri village were inside a mobile home or adjacent camper that were obliterated, authorities said Thursday.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol released the names of the victims. Glenn Burcks, 62, lived in the mobile home. Susan Sullivan, 57, also lived there along with her 37-year-old nephew, James Skaggs. Also killed were Sullivan’s 16-year-old granddaughter, Destinee Nicole Koenig of Sikeston, Missouri, and 18-year-old Michael McCoy. Koenig’s obituary said McCoy was her boyfriend.

The tornado strafed a 22-mile (35-kilometer) stretch of southeastern Missouri,...

MIDWAY — More than 35 families and individuals living in a long-established mobile home park in Midway will have to find a new place to live in the coming months because the park is preparing to close next year.

Tenants of Shoaf’s Country Estates off of Norman Shoaf Road in northern Davidson County were notified in March that the mobile home park will close in 2024, and they have to make arrangements to have their homes moved.

Lindley White, manager of Shoaf’s Country Estates, said that the decision to close the park was not made easily. White is married to Liz Shoaf White, who is a co-owner with her brother, Todd Shoaf.

“We had to come...

TEHAMA COUNTY, Calif. — The Tehama County Sheriff's Office (TCSO) have continued to patrol the Antelope Homewood mobile home park off of Belle-Mill Road after several people were arrested at the park this week.

KRCR spoke with TCSO Captain Derek Sherrill who said that it's been a problem area for them for several years.

"We've been having a long-time issue with high crime rates in that particular area, so to help thwart that we have been initiating daily patrols in the area with enforcement action with those that we find in violation of the law," said Sherrill.

KRCR's Tyler Van Dyke had a chance to see, firsthand, the atrocious conditions...

The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless and the United Residents of Euclid Beach are not giving up a fight to protect the mobile home park in Collinwood.

Driving the news: The groups unveiled a painted trailer emblazoned with messages — "Residents demand to stay!" and "Let E.B. residents stay" — during a demonstration yesterday outside the downtown offices of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy.

• Representatives from the groups also delivered nearly 5,000 signatures from an online petition to save the community.

Catch up quick: The conservancy announced in February its plans to convert the site to greenspace, which would displace...

Negotiations between the land owner and homeowners continue for the sale of the Pines Trailer Park in Bradenton Beach.

Bill Gorman, president at Lifestyle Choice Realty Inc. of Casselberry, representing the homeowner’s association, confirmed March 30, that negotiations are ongoing but declined to disclose other details related to the potential sale of the park at 103 Church Ave.

The Pines’ HOA retained Gorman to represent the homeowners’ interests in the sale of the park land, a process that got underway in late January.

The owners, Jackson Partnership of Bradenton, with Richard and William Jackson as its officers, listed the park for...

BERRIEN SPRINGS, Mich. (WNDU) - Homes of America, the property owners of River Grove Mobile Home Park in Berrien Springs, held a meeting on Friday to hear residents’ concerns.

Even though the meeting was held from 2 p.m., to 4 p.m., at the Berrien Springs Public Library, a public location, 16 News Now was told that press was not allowed inside.

After the meeting, residents shared that they were able to voice their concerns about abandoned trailers, and issues with water pipes and sewage.

According to residents of River Grove Mobile Home Park, many of the issues they have aren’t new and have been problems for years.

Homes of America is the...

An Orem, Utah-based company that invests in mobile home and manufactured home sites across the country has purchased the Cloverleaf Community in Fort Collins for $57 million. A related property was also purchased for $3 million.

The transactions, dated March 14, were between buyer Cloverleaf Colorado II LLC and seller Royce Cloverleaf LLC based in Phoenix, Arizona. The buyer listed an address of 51 W. Center St. in Orem, which is the same address as Havenpark Communities, which owns about 25 mobile home parks across the country.

Cloverleaf Community is located at 412 E. Mulberry in Fort Collins. It contains 391 home sites.

Royce...

Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic state lawmakers unveiled the most significant land-use reform in decades last week. The sweeping new efforts to address Colorado’s housing crisis are focused on increasing residential density in the state’s cities and towns.

“This is how we will make more housing options for every Colorado budget in every community, drive down costs that are pricing Coloradans out of our homes and out of our neighborhoods,” Polis said.

The Common Sense Institute found Colorado had a housing shortage of 225,000 units in 2021, and the affordability of purchasing a home was the lowest in 33 years. According to the Bell Policy...

COLDWATER — After listening to residents of for nearly an hour Monday, the Coldwater Planning Commission unanimously voted to approve a special land use permit to expand Trail Tree Village manufactured housing development to the west by between 76 to 78 lots.

Concerns prompted the developer to propose and the commission to require four conditions and changes to the site plan before work on the undeveloped 17.86 acres can begin. 

Kim Scott, the representative of owner Cambio Communities of Southfield, agreed to make four changes in the site plan after hearing concerns:

• A buffer of two rows of pine trees between the project and Thompson...

RED BLUFF, Calif. - The Antelope Mobile Home Park is getting its own crime task force.  

Several people living at Antelope Homewood Mobile Home Park say trash, fire and crime have become all too common at the mobile home park. 

Some people said they've seen increased drugs and theft, and police answer calls here regularly.

"I've noticed a lot of the drug traffic that has increased here," one person said. "A lot of the kids aren't able to come out and play here anymore like they used to because they don't feel safe."

"It just doesn't feel like a park should," another resident said. "You should feel safe enough to let your kids and...

Residents of multiple mobile home parks have been left to figure out how to move out of their current homes due to redevelopment efforts in the surrounding communities.

"Before this news about us having to leave, I lived a good life here,” said Las Casitas resident Freddy Ortiz.

Ortiz has lived in the Las Casitas mobile home park with his mom, dad and brother for 15 years. He says his stress levels have been rising since learning all residents will need to leave by May 1, 2023.

"It was just so crazy because everything is so expensive now and to find a house is not easy,” added Ortiz.

The Ortiz family plans to pack up and leave the mobile...

MERIDEN — The initial stages of development are underway for a tiny home subdivision on North Broad Street.

Foundations for 12 tiny homes at the former site of Smitty's Snack Bar and an adjacent trailer park are being constructed by Salvatore Carabetta, doing business as North Broad Park LLC.

They received a special exception from the Zoning Board of Appeals to change the use at 1173 and 1187 N. Broad St. from a mixed-use, 12-unit mobile home park with restaurant to a 12-unit detached multi-family development with no restaurant. The homes would be leased.

The Zoning Board of Appeals granted the request with conditions this past summer....

HURON — Driven to remedy several issues at an unsightly RV/mobile home park, which poses many safety concerns and health hazards, Huron officials took some decisive action.

During Tuesday’s city council meeting, staff members announced they’ll commit $900,000 to purchase what’s known as Oster’s mobile home park at Cleveland and Rye Beach (U.S. 6) roads beside LEMmy’s. The site totals about 2.5 acres. The actual owners are several trustees.

After each resident moves out, likely taking place throughout 2023, officials plan on clearing this site.

For years, problems presented issues for all who lived in or nearby this area.

“Oster’s mobile...

Severe storms in the South that killed at least 21 people in Mississippi and Alabama highlight the dangers of being inside a mobile home or manufactured home during severe weather.

Many of the dozens of homes destroyed in the storms were manufactured. In the hardest-hit community of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, 24% of housing units in the county are manufactured homes according to the Census Bureau.

In fact, of the 104 tornado fatalities in 2021, 23 were in manufactured homes, according to NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center. In 2020, 39 of the 76 tornado deaths that year were in manufactured homes. Through Nov. 30 of this year, more than half...

Mobile home residents in California face an outsize risk of failing utility systems, flooding and fires as a result of infrastructure that frequently hasn’t been updated or repaired in decades. 

In 1984, California passed a law to help remedy this: a loan program, paid into by the residents themselves, to buy and in later iterations, fix their parks.

But that solution, for the last 10 years, has helped only one of California’s 4,500 mobile home parks.

State administrators approved a single loan application, in 2021, from a fund now worth $33.5 million, the state’s Housing and Community Development Department confirmed to CalMatters. The...

Rep. Cheryl Golek, D-Harpswell, presented L.D. 815, “An Act to Provide Energy Efficiency Program Outreach and Assistance to Manufactured Housing Residents,” before the Legislature’s Labor and Housing Committee on Tuesday.

The bill would require Efficiency Maine and the Maine State Housing Authority to develop an education program and conduct outreach to residents of manufactured housing to increase the awareness of the energy efficiency programs available to residents. Additionally, the proposal would establish a program to provide financial assistance to qualifying individuals to purchase and install high-efficiency heat pump systems and...

California-based 3D-printing construction tech company Mighty Buildings says it’s on a new and ambitious growth trajectory. From Hawaii to Saudi Arabia, it plans to build communities of sustainable, net-zero, 3D-printed houses fabricated in microfactories that can be spun up virtually anywhere in a matter of months.

“The scale economics of our microfactories makes it feasible to build anywhere,” says Scott Gebicke, Mighty Buildings’ CEO. “This microfactory approach is one of the main reasons I joined the company because the scalability is really impressive.”

Gebicke has been at the helm of Mighty Buildings for just three months, following...

The manufactured housing sector has gained prominence in the past few years due to its resiliency and stability, particularly when economic conditions deteriorate and demand for affordable housing reaches new highs. While it is true that the sector is still experiencing decades-old stigma, some owners and operators are stubbornly determined to show that well-managed manufactured homes can be a palpable solution to the nationwide affordable housing crisis.

“We are in a unique position to contribute to the national conversation about the benefits offered by manufactured homes, including their affordability, contributions to increasing the...