Mobile Home Park News Briefing

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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."

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...

Operating conditions in the manufactured housing sector continue to perform well as both occupancy and asking rents improved in 2025. Continued deliveries were not enough to drive occupancy rates lower, as demand for manufactured housing remains elevated across the country. The Pacific region was the only area of the U.S. to record a decrease in occupancy in 2025, and even then, the rate dipped by just 10 basis points to 98.9%, which is the highest of any region. Tight occupancy led to continued rent growth. Rents advanced by 6.0% during 2025 to $772 per month. While gains were steeper in the previous three years, the recent increase...

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...

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...

Sammi Silver never thought she would be advocating for rent control. Silver has worked as a realtor and property manager for years.

Silver, 40, moved in 2021 into Cimarron Park, a manufactured home park in Lake Elmo, and it seemed like the best way to get on her feet in the midst of a breakup and starting a new business during the pandemic. She was attracted to the “bougie” park amenities, like a golf course and a pool.

Being a mobile home owner, Silver said, “was supposed to be the step between for me, not the permanent destination that it's slowly becoming.”

Silver, who also serves as the vice president of the Cimarron resident...

WILMINGTON — The town board is going back to the drawing board after a spirited public hearing that saw several community members voice concerns to a proposed local law that would ease current zoning code restrictions on manufactured homes.

The intent of proposed Local Law No. 2 of 2026 is to make it easier for manufactured homes to be installed throughout the town by reducing the minimum lot size from the current 3 acres to what the code required for traditional, or stick-built, homes. In the hamlet area, colloquially considered the “center” of town, the minimum is one half-acre, increasing to one acre in the moderate intensity land,...

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...

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...

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...

ARUNDEL –– Town officials in Arundel are joining communities across the state in wrestling with soaring mobile home rent rates in local parks.

On Monday, as residents rallied at town hall to ask for help, the select board said it is working toward a final version of an ordinance for what it calls “rent stabilization.” 

Town Manager Keith Trefethen said the town has been working on the proposed ordinance since January and expects to put it before voters at the annual town meeting on June 10.

Jennifer Moreau said she has been living in Shady Oaks Mobile Home Park for the past 10 years. On Jan. 1, she said, her rent went up $40, then again...

The bill, authored by Sen. Liz Bolden, DFL-Rochester, aims to achieve three things: define reasonable rent and prevent unreasonable rent increases from forcing residents out of their homes, give residents a better chance at owning their homes and enhance the enforcement of existing laws to protect residents.

Sen. Bolden’s bill comes as manufactured housing parks are purchased by out of state private equity firms that raise lot rents and make what was once considered one of the last affordable housing options that much less attainable.

ARUNDEL, Maine —

Residents of a mobile home park in Arundel are urging town leaders to address what they call a loophole in a proposed rent control ordinance before it goes to a town-wide vote in June.

People living in Shady Oaks say the measure, as currently written, would allow the park’s owner to raise rents on vacant lots to so-called “market rates” — without a cap and without a clear definition of what that term means.

A group of tenants is planning to rally ahead of Monday night's select board meeting to push for changes. The rally is expected to take place shortly before the meeting begins.

Priced out of traditional homes during an affordability crisis, many in Wisconsin have found another way to pursue an ownership dream.

Experts estimate that more than 100,000 Wisconsin residents live in manufactured homes, the more accurate name for what many call mobile homes or trailers — structures that make up the country’s largest portion of unsubsidized low-income housing. Many live in parks where they own their homes but rent the land beneath them.

But Wisconsin’s government is failing to enforce basic protections for residents at a time when private equity firms are buying up parks to maximize profits, a Wisconsin Watch/WPR...

A company that manages mobile home parks in Tucson and across the U.S. is arguing it is not legally required to update its electrical systems from 1962 for manufactured home residents at a park in Tucson today. 

That’s according to the latest legal volley between BoaVida Communities, the property management company under an investment firm that invests in mobile home park properties across the country, and Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes. 

BoaVida has taken the first step in a possible countersuit: filing a notice of claim, a legal effort to resolve a disagreement before a lawsuit is filed, to the Attorney General’s Office. 

Mayes...

WILMINGTON — On the heels of enacting changes intended to curtail large retail development and beef up screening requirements for commercial projects, the Wilmington Town Board is eyeing revisions to the zoning code once again.

There is a public hearing on the proposed Local Law No. 2 of 2026 at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25 at the Wilmington Community Center. The law’s intent is to make it easier to install manufactured homes through friendlier zoning regulations.

The proposed law would lessen the amount of lot size needed for a manufactured home. It also seeks to decrease the minimum square footage of a “dwelling unit” from the...