The “For Sale” sign is a sign of the times at the Pines Trailer Park in Bradenton Beach.

Some owners are putting their homes up for sale after the ownership of the park, 103 Church Ave., Bradenton Beach, delivered notice May 8 of an offer from an unknown entity to purchase the park land.

The notice, prepared by attorney David A. Luczak, representing park owners, stated the Jackson Partnership was considering an offer outlining a purchase price of $16,250,000 for all park-owned land, mobile homes, recreational vehicles, equipment, materials, vehicles and buildings.

The notice said closing would come 45 days from the successful completion...

It’s easy to miss the entrance to manufactured home communities if you don’t live there. Tucked away from view, these enclaves, sometimes called trailer parks, offer housing for very low-income folks, with monthly costs averaging $564, half the $1,046 for apartments, according to City Lab.

There are more than 13,000 of these homes in Thurston County, about 11% of our housing stock, according to Thurston Regional Planning Council data. Nationwide, an estimated 17.7 million people live in manufactured homes. That’s a lot of folks, of whom 70% are very low-income senior citizens. And many of these homes are at risk.

The vulnerability of...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — The Farmworkers of America said it received several complaints about Chalet North evicting for minor infractions.

The mobile home park is along Alpine Drive, not far from Orange Blossom Trail.

Some residents feel the owners of Chalet North are taking advantage of them because they don’t understand the law.

A spokesperson for Chalet North said it only uses the eviction process, which is lengthy and costly, as a last resort.

Outside of Chalet North’s gates today, current and former residents protested the mobile home park’s management and what they said are unfair eviction practices.

Former resident Leticia Ramiraz...

“Shark Tank” star Barbara Corcoran — long known as a successful business executive — shocked fans when she took viewers inside her mobile home. Yes, her mobile home.

In a TikTok video posted by Caleb Simpson, the creator known to document a host of celebrity houses, Corcoran is seen giving a tour of her humble West Coast pad in affluent Pacific Palisades. The video has already amassed over 5.5 million views.

“Who would have thought Barbara Corcoran would have her own trailer,” Simpson said in the video.

“It’s a called a double-wide,” Corcoran, 74, quipped in response. “Here’s my Taj Mahal,” she added, explaining that she paid $800,000 for...

Mount Airy and Surry County officials agree that there is a housing shortage in this area, but solutions are as hard to come by as a house for rent.

Some residents of mobile home parks say they feel stuck in bad rental situations that are not safe or healthy because they lack any other options which keeps them locked in place. With so few options to rent, and prices that quite frankly are not possible for some folks to afford, some residents of these parks say the situation is making them sick emotionally and in some cases physically as well.

The North Carolina Department of Justice advises, “If the landlord fails to fix something that...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Desperate renters in Lancaster are calling on Ohio lawmakers for change and control when it comes to increasing and unaffordable rent.

"Look at this outside of your ivory tower," Dan Wykle told ABC6 On Your Side Problem Solvers after forming a tenants' organization at Colonial Estates Mobile Home Park and registering it with the state. "Understand there are people out here who are hurting bad."

Wykle has organized a series of protests in front of his Lancaster mobile home park since June after he said park owners continue to increase lot rent. He said many of his organization members are seniors and on fixed...

Hattie Wood had been through floods at the Berlin Mobile Home Park before. The first arrived during her first spring in the park, almost 30 years ago. It ruined her family’s shed but didn’t reach their home. In 2011, Tropical Storm Irene brought water up to the base of the residence, but again it was spared.

This time, “it took everything,” Wood said on Thursday afternoon, as she returned home for the first time since Vermont’s historic flooding overtook the park earlier this week.

Our region has some of the oldest housing stock in the state of New York. According to the 2022-2024 Chautauqua County Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan (https://chqgov.com/sites/default/files/document-files/2023-01/CHQ.CHA–.2022.Final–.pdf), “Housing structures in the County are relatively old with 40.5% built in 1939 or earlier, compared to 31.0% in New York State. In Chautauqua County, 52.7% of homes were built prior to 1950, compared to 32.3% in New York State”. These homes might have been great when folks were younger, but as we age, they may need some work done to maintain the home or improve the...

A new state loan program could help solve another part of the complex equation for Colorado mobile home park resident groups that are looking to secure their long-term housing future, including various local efforts.

Last month, Gov. Jared Polis announced the new Mobile Home Park Resident Empowerment Program, which will provide $28 million in loans across the state to help facilitate resident ownership of parks whose landlords are willing to sell.

Overseen by the Colorado Department of Local Affairs Division of Housing/Office of Housing Finance and Sustainability, the Mobile Home Park Acquisition Fund will have three loan administrators,...

Blaine City Council voted 5-2 during its July 10 meeting to uphold its decision to enact a six-month emergency moratorium on processing manufactured home park building permit applications. Over 20 people spoke during a public hearing before the vote while others brimmed the council chambers to listen. 

City council approved the moratorium May 22 to allow time for city staff to clean up code inconsistencies. The underlying zoning code allows for manufactured home parks but the planned unit development (PUD) code does not. Manufactured home parks that are five acres or larger are required to be developed as PUDs.

Blaine city code only...

LONGMONT — The popular tiny home movement is growing bigger in Colorado thanks to a new law aimed at allowing factory-built homes of about 400 square feet or less to become permanent fixtures in neighborhoods and in one case, to be used as an emerging therapy to get homeless military veterans back on their feet.

Advocates say House Bill 1242 , which went into effect July 1, will spur more purchases since it sets building standards for the scaled-down structures. The new rules also allow cities and counties to create legal pathways to let people live in tiny homes for a lifetime as opposed to just 180 days, advocates say. 

“Before this...

The Albemarle County Planning Commission recommended approval of a Special Use Permit request for the new owner of the renamed Crozet Mobile Home Community (MHC) at the commission’s June 27 meeting. The mobile home park on Park Road just east of Crozet Park has existed in that location continuously for over 40 years, predating most of the development around it. The 15-acre community currently hosts 73 manufactured homes, and the parcel’s new owners—who acquired the MHC in 2022 for $4 million—would like to add 14 more units to the site.

County senior planner Kevin McCollum explained that because the mobile home park was established before...

Christy Nair waves to neighbors as she strolls to her house perched on the edge of Silver City West, a 55-and-up mobile home and recreational vehicle park in Morro Bay. As she opens the front door, her 13-year-old pug, Duke, skips from a sunny spot on the sofa to the door — wagging his tail in anticipation of treats or head scratches. Nair, a retiree, has called Silver City West home for the past 11 years — but she worries about difficulties others may face when they choose to rent there or at other mobile home parks in the city.

About three years ago, Nair discovered black mold in the home she originally purchased at Silver City West,...

ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - A group of families in a mobile home park in Rowan County reached out to WBTV after their running water was restricted by the landlord to only three hours a day.

The landlord says there’s a leak and that until it can be located and fixed, they have to limit the water to more than a dozen homes. It’s been going on for a month now, and they want answers and water.

The taps and the spigots are dry at the Mobile Manor off Hartley Road, except for certain times of day.

“7 in the morning to 8:30, then it’s cut off the rest of the day until 7 to 8:30 at night,” resident Brandy Brewer said.

It’s been that way for a...

A Colorado state agency confirms to CBS News Colorado it is investigating complaints of unfair and exploitative practices at a mobile home park in Arapahoe County. 

Activists claim the alleged issues there are an example of a problematic trend happening to mobile home parks across the country. They say large private equity companies are buying up mobile home parks, raising rent prices, and implementing costly policies, which they say take advantage of the people who live there, and critics say the same is happening at Foxridge Farm in northeastern Aurora. 

Residents say some people at Foxridge Farm are having to pay up to $3,800 a month...

By the end of Shekinah Samaya-Thomas’s first date with her now-husband Chris, she had made two things very clear: She was going to get married — not necessarily to him — and she was going to own a house.

For two people looking to establish a life together in the San Francisco Bay Area, getting married was the easy part. Buying a house was another story — both had experienced homelessness and Mr. Samaya-Thomas had no credit when the two first met. Housing prices in the East Bay continued to rise.

Claire Fahy is an editorial assistant based in New York who covers breaking news and general assignment stories.

In 2021, a California-based investor group purchased Golden Hill Mobile Home Park in Golden, Colorado, a small city just outside Denver in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Less than two years later, rents doubled for the nearly 40 households that called the community home, pushing residents—some that had lived there for decades—to seek cheaper alternatives in an area already feeling the pressure of an affordable housing crisis. 

But this week, residents of the Golden Hills community got some good news: They are now the owners of the land their homes sit on, thanks in part to a 2020 state law that gave them the opportunity to purchase...

Relatively few affordable housing-oriented bills cleared the General Assembly this year, albeit with a high-profile exception.

In early June, housing justice organizations celebrated passage of a bill guaranteeing most tenants a right to legal representation during eviction proceedings — a version of a bill that failed in a dramatic midnight vote at the end of the 2022 legislative session.

And last week, Gov. Carney quietly signed legislation enabling counties to use realty transfer tax revenue to fund affordable housing projects, opening the possibility that Sussex County could use a portion of its substantial revenues from pandemic-era...

Walla Walla seniors facing rising rents in manufactured housing communities and apartments have an opportunity to share their plight with state lawmakers this week.

Rental costs — including lot rent and utility fees for water, sewer and stormwater passed through by management — increased by $193 over 22 months at Rancho Villa, a manufactured home community for those 55 and older in Walla Walla.

Mobile and manufactured home residents from Rancho Villa and retirees living in other rental properties around Walla Walla shared their financial challenges at a community town hall in March, asking state lawmakers to help by implementing rent...

Across the US, homeownership is becoming increasingly inaccessible for low- and moderate-income households. While land costs are a driving force in this trend, construction costs carry some of the blame as well. However, “Comparison of the Costs of Manufactured and Site-Built Housing,” a new paper I co-authored with Chris Herbert and James Shen finds that manufactured housing offers a potential solution to rising construction costs, with a significant cost advantage over site-built homes. Given this cost advantage, we suggest that housing advocates and policymakers take steps to promote more widespread adoption of manufactured housing as...

A TINY home dweller has narrowly avoided homelessness after she was evicted from the property where she had lived for nine years.

Back in 2017, Yvonne Perrigo and her retired mother were living at the Skyview Trailer Park in Missoula, Montana, when the landlord left a note saying they needed to leave within six months.

There were plans to raze the park and build a new affordable apartment complex.

That's when Perrigo had to begin the painstaking and financially taxing process of moving her mobile home to another trailer park, the Missoulian reported.

"It was one of the roughest times I’ve ever had," she told the outlet.

"We were seriously...

A new federal law proposed by three U.S. senators, including Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal, aims to protect mobile home owners. The law would curtail extreme rent increases and other predatory operator tactics.

In recent years, mobile home communities across the country continue the shift from locally owned and operated to hedge fund management.

Dave Delohery, president of the CT Mobile Homeowners Alliance, has lived in mobile homes for about a decade.

Delohery is a resident of the former Jensen mobile home community in Southington. It was purchased in 2019 by Sun Communities, the nation’s second largest manufactured home...