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January 2025
Got $500? This Top-Performing Investment Could Continue to Deliver Resilient Returns.
For example, manufactured home communities might not seem like an appealing investment at first glance. However, they’ve been some of the best-performing real estate investments over the past couple of decades due to the durable demand for space in these properties.
Matt DiLallo, The Motley Fool, Yahoo Finance
Jan. 5, 2025
1 in 5 Manufactured Home Borrowers Use Risky Contract Financing
However, many manufactured home borrowers struggle to access these types of loans. Nationwide, lenders deny about half of mortgage and home-only loan applications (roughly 40% and 64%, respectively) for manufactured home purchases.3
Pew Charitable Trusts
Jan. 9, 2025
Hurst Fire burns near Sylmar mobile home park that burned down over 15 years ago
The Hurst Fire in Sylmar has prompted the evacuation of residents of the Oakridge Mobile Home Park.
KTLA5 News
Jan. 8, 2025
Palisades fire shoots up to 17,200 acres — 1,000 structures destroyed
Blake Armstrong is a resident of the Tahitian Terrace mobile home park community in Pacific Palisades, where homes burned.
Blake Armstrong, who had lived at Tahitian Terrace for three years, evacuated Tuesday afternoon but returned Wednesday morning to survey the scene.
Los Angeles Daily News
Jan. 8, 2025
Is Affordable Housing Linked Scandal at Champion Homes Brewing?
Is Champion Homes (SKY) Joining Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Members Hit by Conflicts, Fiduciary Fails, Probes and Legal Actions?
Patch Media
Jan 4, 2025
Sustainable Communities: The Future of Manufactured Homes
Because they’re built in a more controlled environment than homes constructed on-site, manufactured homes require less material and create less waste in the building process (manufacturedhousing.org). Their compact design, coupled with HUD’s building code for energy efficiency, gives manufactured homes a leg up in sustainability efforts.
To add to these benefits, some manufactured home communities are taking on a new sustainability initiative: covered solar RV storage for their residents who live on-the-go
Billings Gazette
Jan. 3, 2025
A Close Brush With Loss for a Community That Knows It Well
A 2008 fire gutted a mobile home park in the suburb of Sylmar. Last week, the Hurst fire came frighteningly close, and residents still haven’t let their guard down.
New York Times
Jan 12, 2025
Birds-eye view of devastated mobile home community in California
A community of mobile homes tucked in between luxury mansions has been devastated by the Palisades Fire in Southern California. Maurice DuBois gets a birds-eye view of the wreckage.
CBS News
Jan. 12, 2025
In One of L.A.’s Richest ZIP Codes, Food Service Workers Also Lost Their Homes
In addition to pricey mansions, the homes of working-class people were also lost, including a mobile home park on Pacific Coast Highway.
New York Times
Jan 10, 2025
The LA fires raise many questions for renters. LAist has answers
Many of those who lost homes — temporarily, or permanently — are renters. What comes next for those tenant households has generated a lot of confusion. Other L.A. renters outside the burn areas are also worried about new rent increases or pressure to move out.
LAist
Jan. 17, 2025
As residents in two Live Oak mobile home parks await a final Regional Transportation Commission report regarding who is responsible for paying to remedy encroachments along the Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line, County Supervisor Manu Koenig’s office has requested that the commission focus on working with the parks’ owners and not the residents.
Lookout, Santa Cruz
Jan 17, 2025
Mobilehome owners install solar energy systems without park owner interference
Why this matters: Mobilehome park owners have a captive clientele in the owners and tenants of mobilehomes in space within the park. This often results in rules triggering fees and rent adjustments for activities such as installing and using solar energy systems. This legislation prohibits interference, as laid out below.
First Tuesday Journal
Jan. 16, 2025
Remaining Edison Mobile Home Park residents face being left without a home
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Residents have lost hope that the power will ever come back on at Edison Mobile Home Park, now they’re worried that they won’t even have a home in the coming days.
KGET.com
Jan 17, 2025
FEMA Awards Eau Claire County an Initial $70K of a $1.2M Grant to Build a Community Saferoom
“FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program enables communities to implement critical mitigation measures to reduce or eliminate the risk of future disaster losses,” said Tom Sivak, regional administrator, FEMA Region 5. “This project will enable local residents to have a safe place to go when severe weather threatens the Altoona area.”
FEMA.gov
Jan. 15, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom issues order to expedite temporary housing for people displaced by LA fires
Newsom’s executive order on Jan. 16, the latest issued by the governor in recent days in the wake of the catastrophic fires, is meant to streamline the construction of accessory dwelling units and make it easier to place temporary trailers on a property while a new residence is being built or a damaged one is fixed.
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And it also suspends fees for mobile home parks for the next three years under the Mobilehome Park Act, Special Occupancy Parks Act and Manufactured Housing Act.
Redlands Daily Facts
Jan 16, 2025
February 2025
Township spends $10M to stop mobile home park plans near Ann Arbor
Township officials analyzed “potential impacts on the environment and township resources of having 500 units in an area that didn’t have access to public water and sewer, and the possibility of more traffic on Warren Road,” she said, also noting “that’s what prompted the negotiations.”
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Public services would have cost township residents more than $500,000 annually with no increase in property tax revenue to cover that cost, according to the township’s announcement, which also notes how a housing unit built on a chassis is not subject to property taxes under Michigan law.
Advance Local Media
Feb. 5, 2025
Paulson, 50, initially listed the property for $2 million back in May 2024, three years after she purchased it for less than half of that price.
In August of that same year, she offered up a discount to potential buyers, reducing her ask to $1.79 million—but even that steep drop appears to have failed to secure any interested parties.
Yahoo Life
Feb.4, 2025
Flooding forces mobile home residents to evacuate
The mobile home park, which is located off Sonoma Highway, was flooded with 3 feet of water when nearby Agua Caliente Creek overflowed its banks, said SVFD Chief Stephen Akre. The main roadway of the park was flooded, with water reaching the bottom of some mobile homes.
Sonoma Index-Tribune
Feb, 6, 2025
Riverside Mobile Home Financing: A Comprehensive Guide to Securing Your Dream Home
Whether you’re a first-time buyer or looking to upgrade, understanding your options for Riverside mobile home financing is essential for making an informed decision. This article breaks down the key steps and factors involved in financing your mobile home in Riverside.
Big News Network.com
Feb. 7, 2025
A Malibu real estate agent warned California homeowners about the need to protect themselves after a serial squatter reportedly targeted the beachfront community for years, a problem she said could become worse after the Los Angeles wildfires.
New York Post.com
Feb, 1, 2025
Cedar Falls Residents Co-Op closes deal, officially owns mobile home park
“On Tuesday, it became official. Cedar Falls Mobile Home Park is now owned by those who live there.”
WABI5
Feb, 18, 2025
Citrus Heights mobile home park has been without gas services for 6 days
For six days, the nearly 200 homes at Creekside Estates mobile home park have been without any gas service.
CBS News
Feb. 20, 2025
Riverside County Relocates 100+ Families from Oasis Mobile Home Park to Safer Housing
This relocation initiative is supported by a $30 million state grant that county officials are using to assist mobile home park owners in improving housing and infrastructure throughout the area.
NBC Palm Springs
Feb. 21, 2025
Solar farm, mobile home park owner sues for legal fees
A mobile home park owner who fought the city of Santa Clarita in the courts for years over solar panels he put up all over his hillside property wants the city to pay his legal fees for what he described as a lawsuit that violated his rights as a property owner, he said Friday.
The Signal. Santa Clarita Valley
Feb. 21, 2025
San Jose says mobile home park owner can’t raise rent
A mobile home park owner who fought the city of Santa Clarita in the courts for years over solar panels he put up all over his hillside property wants the city to pay his legal fees for what he described as a lawsuit that violated his rights as a property owner, he said Friday.
San Jose Spotlight
Feb. 26, 2025
Local group is appealing project to add 10 new mobile homes in Los Osos
McGibney says he welcomes people to Los Osos but doesn’t feel the approval of 10 new mobile homes at the park across from Sweet Springs Nature Preserve is in the town’s best interest.
KSBY6
Feb. 25, 2025
Connolly proposes protections for mobile home residents
AB 456 would stop mobile home park managers from requiring residents to repair their homes’ interiors before the properties can be sold. AB 806 would prohibit managers from restricting residents from installing cooling devices and would also require parks to have cooling centers.
Marin Independent Journal
Feb. 23, 2025
Dozens of eviction notices go to Yuba mobile home owners
Sacramento attorney Joseph W. Carroll said his client’s goal is to rescind all the notices and not evict any of the resident/homeowners so long as the residents correct violations identified by the state agency that regulates mobile home parks.
“My client only served the 60 day notices because the (California Department of Housing and Community Development) advised the park owner that its permit to operate would be suspended if any resident/homeowner did not immediately correct the violations,” Carroll said.
The Appeal
Feb. 27, 2025
March 2025
Manufactured Crisis: Losing the Nation’s Largest Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing
Before the Utah-based manufactured housing owner and operator bought the property, rent increases were predictable and the amounts were sustainable. Property management was easy to get along with, Ketels says. He even worked for the park’s former owner in exchange for a discount in his lot rent—the monthly fee homeowners pay to site their home in the park, hook it up to utilities, and access community amenities.
But those days are long gone.
Shelterforce
March 04, 2025
Manufactured home park residents pray for relief as lawmakers aim at rent
Manufactured home parks have undergone a national trend in recent years, shifting from the hands of small landlords to real estate investment trusts or owners who buy up numerous parks and increase rents. The tenants of those parks, often seniors living on fixed incomes, are left with little choice but to pay because in Southwest Washington — as with many areas in the Northwest — affordable housing is increasingly hard to find.
Oregon Public Broadcasting
March 4, 2025
From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions
Tenant organizing, and tenant unions specifically, are an attempt to ensure that tenants—44 million households nationwide—are not merely consumers of housing policy but authors of their own stories.
Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ)
March 05, 2025
San Rafael Residents Fear Eviction from Affordable Housing | Pacific Sun
Joe Nagy, 75, pays his rent on time each month. Still, last week, the disabled senior received a 60-day notice to terminate his tenancy at the RV Park of San Rafael, where he has lived for 29 years.
Pacific Sun
March 4, 2025
Petaluma countersues mobile home park operator, continuing dispute over who can live there
The city’s lawsuit seeks to enforce Youngstown Mobile Home Park’s designation as a seniors-only residential area.
Park operators claim the city’s ordinance regulating that designation is unlawful and discriminatory. They say they will ignore the ordinance and serve all families.
This case is part of broader legal disputes involving multiple mobile home parks and rent stabilization concerns in Petaluma and Sonoma County.
Petaluma Argus-Courier
March 09, 2025
Op-Ed Opinion: Dream to Nightmare? 55 and Over Mobile Home Park Living a Commentary by Gary Perry
Unfortunately, all of that has changed. Investor groups, private equity and others soon realized the “cash cow” potential of these parks and began buying them making local owners an “offer they couldn’t refuse” moneywise. The website Mobile Home University was created to attract buyers touting the profitability and significant return on investment these parks offered.
Newsbreak.com
March 7, 2025
PROTECTING TENANTS – Once again trying to kill any kind of tenant protection in California, the California Apartment Association is about to weaken a rent stabilization ordinance in the city of Concord in Northern California. As a result, Concord tenants will face a higher rent increase of five percent compared to the current three percent. Just that two percent difference can force a tenant to choose between paying the rent or medical bills.
CityWatch LA
March 10, 2025
City wants to limit mobile home rent increases, but landlords warn of consequences
Mountain View City Council wants to help mobile home residents by further limiting how much landlords can raise rents each year, but park owners are warning the new rules will make their operations unsustainable.
Palo Alto Daily Post
March 10, 2025
Mission-Driven or Profit-Driven? Enterprise’s Hidden Role in Mobile Home Park Purchases
Despite Enterprise Community Partners’ majority voting stake in Bellwether Enterprise, the nonprofit lender long insisted it couldn’t address its subsidiary commercial mortgage lender’s questionable lending for mobile home park purchases.
Shelterforce
March 11, 2025
New Survey Shows Wide Support for Rent Stabilization from Both Republicans and Democrats
Breaking down the findings, CSS reported that 89 percent of people in suburban areas supported rent stabilization; 84 percent of those in urban areas; and 81 percent of residents in rural areas.
Housing is a human right
March 11, 2025
Trump CFPB drops suit against Warren Buffett’s mobile-home lender that “knowingly traps people”
Without CFPB oversight, mobile-home owners — representing roughly 22 million people in rural areas across the South and West who earn less than $40,000 per year — are left with few institutional watchdogs advocating for their interests, Esther Sullivan, a nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute, told Salon.
salon
March 16, 2025
Owners of Little Woods in Petaluma issue eviction notices to close mobile home park
The entire population of a Petaluma mobile home park received eviction notices Monday from the park’s owners.
Argus-Courier
March 19, 2025
Arcata’s Mobile Home Repair Project is Underway
The Manufactured Housing Opportunity & Revitalization Program (MORE) pays for mobile home repairs, if the homes are in a mobile home park and owned by someone making less than 80% of Humboldt’s median income. Contractors hired by the city do the work.
The program focuses on repairing violations of health and safety codes, as well as improving ADA accessibility.
Lost Coast Outpost
March 20, 2025
