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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
When the Palisades Fire tore through coastal Los Angeles last month, it obliterated not only the sprawling mansions of celebrities, but two seaside mobile home parks where hundreds of retirees and other long-time residents clung to a middle-class lifestyle in one of the area’s last bastions of affordability.
The Press Democrat
Feb. 12, 2025
Pacific Northwest lawmakers introduce bill to deter hedge funds from housing market
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Two lawmakers in the Pacific Northwest introduced a bill on Thursday aiming to deter hedge fund influence in the housing market.
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA-09) introduced the Humans Over Private Equity (HOPE) for Homeownership Act, which they say, will stop hedge fund investors from buying single family homes and driving up rent and home purchase prices.
Koin.com
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
Petaluma officials question legality of eviction notices sent to 71 mobile home park residents
Cruz showed us the eviction notice all 71 residents got this week from the owners of the property, Harmony Communities, which owns or manages mobile home parks in California and Oregon.
ABC 7 News
March 20, 2025
A New Book Details How Scarily Easy It Is To Be ‘Pushed’ Into Homelessness in America
The American myth of hard work leading to stability has long been shattered, but there are few clearer illustrations of that than the fact that thousands of people are working, but cannot sustain a basic human need: housing.
Jezebel
March 28, 2025
April 2025
California follows USDA’s lead in expanding loan access for manufactured homes
The rule change aims to give borrowers more home buying options, make housing more available, and improve the loan process.
Newsbreak
April 4, 2025
Ceres trailer park lawsuit leads to major settlement
Lazy wheels Mobile Home Park to get power back after months without.
Modesto Bee
April 4, 2025
Landlords raise rents, evict, harass, all without hesitation. Were they finally feeling a consequence for their actions?
n+1
April 7, 2025
Trump eyes ‘world’s most expensive trailer park’ as site for presidential library: report
President Donald Trump is eyeing a trailer park near his Mar-a-Lago private resort in Palm Beach, Florida, as the site for his presidential library.
Raw Story
April 16, 2025
Homebuilder buys big San Jose mobile home park where houses will sprout
Pulte Homes has bought the land occupied by the Winchester Ranch Mobile Home Park in San Jose next to the world-famous Winchester Mystery House, according to documents filed on May 28 in Santa Clara County.
SiliconValley.com
April 16, 2025
The Real Dirt: The RealPage Scandal, Big Real Estate Hires Fake Activists, Reining In the Oligarchs
Big news came out of New Jersey this month: State Attorney General Matthew Platkin sued AvalonBay Communities, among other corporate landlords, for using a RealPage software program to illegally collude and charge wildly inflated rents. This is just the latest lawsuit in the ongoing RealPage scandal, which was first exposed by ProPublica in 2022.
Housing is a Human Right
April 29, 2025
House and Senate Democratic negotiators announce rent stabilization legislation compromise
Legislators representing the Washington State House and the Washington State Senate announced this evening that they’ve reached a deal on legislation to stabilize rents after a conference committee was appointed to recommend revised language that could garner a constitutional majority in each chamber.
The Cascadia Advocate, Northwest Progressive Institute
April 24, 2025
May 2025
California Apartment Association Uses Deep-Pocketed Influence to Delay Crucial Pro-Tenant Bill
Once again, the California Apartment Association has shown that it only cares about guarding Big Real Estate’s outsized profits by delaying a crucial state bill that would have helped millions of tenants struggling through the housing affordability crisis.
Housing is a Human Right
May 2, 2025
Point Dume residents rally against state bill
Residents’ association discuss wildfire preparedness and proposal that could strip Malibu of local oversight
Malibu Times
May 4, 2025
East Palo Alto shifts funds to bolster affordable housing
The East Palo Alto City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to reallocate $2 million – originally intended to help locals purchase their mobile homes – toward its affordable housing fund.
Palo Alto Online
May 7, 2025
Pacifica can keep its controversial seawalls, California agency says
Pacifica can use new and existing seawalls to bolster parts of its shoreline for at least 20 years, the California Coastal Commission ruled Thursday — a decision that angered both opponents and supporters of using the walls to defend against storms and sea level rise.
San Francisco Chronicle
May 8, 2025
Private Equity Is Turning Mobile Homes Into Health Hazards. What Can Governments Do?
New research shows health impacts of private equity buying manufactured housing – and offers some policy-based solutions to protect residents.
Next City
May 9, 2025
Protections for Senior Mobile Home Parks Clear Planning Commission
The Santa Barbara County Planning Commission met on Wednesday and approved a potential mobile park overlay that would prevent changing senior parks to all-ages and protect against some development.
Noozhawk
May 9, 2025
Tuolumne County To Vote On Mobile Home Fee, Hear About 175th Anniversary
Sonora, CA — The Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors will vote on approving an increased fee for mobile home units that are a part of the county’s mobile home rent control ordinance.
MyMotherLode.com
May 19, 2025
Santa Barbara County Planning Commission supports new zoning to protect 11 senior mobile home parks
Six months after issuing an urgency order to stop mobile home parks for seniors from broadening to welcome all ages, Santa Barbara County is one step closer to something more permanent.
Santa Maria Sun
May 15, 2025
Oregon bill would cap rent increases at 6% for mobile homes, floating homes
SALEM Ore. (KPTV) – A bill that would cap rental increases at 6% for mobile home parks and floating home marinas is nearing the finish line in Salem.
KPTV.com (Gray Local Media Station)
May 22, 2025
Marin Voice: Novato’s manufactured home community on path to resident ownership
The residents of Marin Valley Mobile Country Club, an affordable, vibrant over-55 manufactured home community in Novato, have been taking the necessary steps toward achieving the long-awaited goal of becoming resident-owned.
Marin Independent Journal
May 23, 2025
Landlord Agrees To Settlement For Tenant Harassment, Discrimination Lawsuits
SANTA MONICA—On Tuesday, May 27, the city of Santa Monica announced on its website that three related cases brought against a Santa Monica landlord, including one case brought by the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office under the city’s Tenant Harassment and Housing Anti-Discrimination ordinances, have settled, with the landlord agreeing to pay $685,000 to settle all lawsuits, including a stipulated judgment and injunction in the city’s case.
Canyon News
May 22, 2025
Housing organizers call for renter protections in Vallejo
VALLEJO – Affordable housing advocates called for the city of Vallejo to commit to stronger renter protections like rent control and a just cause eviction ordinance at a rally in front of Vallejo City Hall on Tuesday.
VallejoSun
May 21, 2025
Some Studies Challenge Long-Held Views on Rent Control
For decades, real estate interests and conservative economists have painted rent control as a failed policy that shrinks housing supply and hurts the very tenants it aims to protect.
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But now, a wide array of new studies — from USC, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and even the Harvard Business Review — are making a very different case.
These findings challenge long-standing assumptions in housing policy. While rent control remains controversial, the evidence in its favor is there as well.
Vanguard News Group
May 31, 2025
June 2025
A Costly Form of Displacement: Eviction From Mobile Home Parks
These benefits can hide a costly risk, though. If you get evicted from a mobile home park, you will have to choose from the least bad of three options: abandon your property outright, sell it for pennies on the dollar, or try to move it to another location. This last possibility is often impossible: despite their name, mobile homes are not usually “mobile” and relocation would destroy or severely damage most units. In cases where moving the home is possible, it can cost up to $15,000 according to some estimates.
Eviction Lab
June 4, 2025
WA mobile homeowners, advocates react to new rent stabilization law
The state’s new cap on rent increases is one of the country’s most progressive — and some landlords have already steeply hiked rates in anticipation.
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Many other mobile home residents and housing advocates shared Valdez’s sense of long-awaited relief after Gov. Bob Ferguson signed House Bill 1217 in May, introducing annual caps on rent increases for the first time in the state’s history. The bill also added new limits on move-in fees, security deposits and late fees for mobile home tenants.
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But other mobile home residents told Cascade PBS their community landlords announced significant rent increases in the final months before the new law went into effect, trying to lock in hikes of up to 34% ahead of the governor’s signature. Communities may see legal challenges as tenants push to hold landlords to the established state cap, while landlords argue the limits will undermine housing growth when it is needed most.
Cascade PBS
June 3, 2025
Stanton Rejects Mobile Home Rent Control Proposal
Mobile home residents in Stanton won’t see any form of rent control anytime soon, as residents raise concerns over price hikes.
Instead, Stanton City Council members say they’ll consider other support options.
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Voice of OC
June 17, 2025
Landlords Say They Don’t Make Enough Money. Is That Really True?
Are landlords really hurting? They say they don’t make enough money from rent to run their buildings, even though the Rent Guidelines Board has allowed rent increases of nearly 17 percent since 2014.
New York Times
June 23, 2025
Prison officers to be evicted from mobile homes near shuttered FCI Dublin
About two dozen prison correctional officers who used to work at the now-shuttered women’s prison in Dublin are getting evicted from their mobile home park, and if they don’t move out by Labor Day, their homes will be demolished.
Fox KTVU 2 San Francisco
June 23, 2025
From Mom-and-Pop to Managed Portfolio: Sonos Capital’s Role in Mobile Home Park Growth
Mobile home parks have long been run by small, independent family owners, but a new wave of management is changing the game. Sonos Capital, led by Walter Johnson, is at the forefront of this shift, turning scattered, under-managed parks into thriving, well-run portfolios. The company’s strategy brings fresh energy, innovative solutions, and much-needed stability to a sector that has often flown under the radar and been overlooked by traditional investors.
International Business Times
June 23, 2025
Can Manufactured Homes Help Solve the Nation’s Housing Shortage?
At a time of high rents and housing prices, manufactured homes offer an alternative—but they face regulatory hurdles that lawmakers can fix.
Pew
June 23, 2025
Manufactured home lot rent control on deck in Pennsylvania
(The Center Square) – Lawmakers in Harrisburg are renewing efforts to protect affordable homeownership for some of Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable residents, with one bill advancing out of the House and two others beginning their journey in the Senate.
House Bill 1250 recently passed the House with bipartisan support on a vote of 144-59 – with 42 Republicans voting in favor of it. It now advances to the Senate Urban Affairs and Housing Committee for consideration.
The Center Square
June 24, 2025
How robots are taking prefabricated housing construction to a new level for this Vancouver company
Intelligent City is using massive industrial robots and advanced techniques in mass-timber construction to produce complete floor and exterior wall sections for a nine-storey apartment building that will be assembled in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke.
Yahoo News, Vancouver Sun
June 23, 2025
These Los Angeles Tenants Are Saying No to Rent Hikes
How one complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city’s housing crisis.
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Chan sold Hillside Villa in 2000. When the covenant expired in 2018, the new landlord, Tom Botz, was left with no obligation to provide affordable housing. That’s when Ruiz found the letter on her door.
Mother Jones
July – August 2025 Issue
July 2025
Blue Island shutting down embattled mobile home park, residents don’t know what’s next
Officials have said the city has spent two years trying to get management to clean up its act. Its residents are now caught in the middle, unsure where they will go.
ABC 7 Chicago Eyewitness News
July 1, 2025
(Video) Blue Island shutting down embattled mobile home park
Blue Island is shutting down the embattled Forest View Mobile Home Park, and residents don’t know what’s next.
YouTube, ABC 7 Chicago Eyewitness News
July 1, 2025
Residents fear for health as window AC ban hits South Bend trailer park during summer heat
People who live at Countryside Village on South Bend’s west side are being forced to remove their window air conditioners.
Now, a local state senator is calling for action.
WSBT 22
July 1, 2025
After our first story aired last Thursday, a local company reached out to me, offering to donate seven units to people living at Countryside Village.
16 News Now WNDU
July 1, 2025
New court decision impacts three-day notices – member action needed
The court held the three-day notice was invalid because, among other reasons, it failed to provide essential information needed for an “ordinary tenant” to reasonably understand their deadline to pay and avoid eviction
California Apartment Association
July 3, 2025
The Department of Energy just delayed its first-ever energy rule for manufactured homes. Environmentalists say it hurts low-income buyers. Industry insiders say it’s a relief. But what’s the real story?
Patch.com
July 5, 2025
Fresno has a $1M fund for mobile home repairs. Why are only 2 projects done?
The city of Fresno recently approved a $1 million budget to repair dilapidated mobile homes across its 27 mobile parks. But since the program relaunched in April 2024, it has only received nine applications for repairs, of which six have been approved and just two have been completed, according to the city.
The Fresno Bee
July 7, 2025
Yucca Valley Planning Commission to reconsider overlay district for senior mobile home parks
The Department of Energy just delayed its first-ever energy rule for manufactured homes. Environmentalists say it hurts low-income buyers. Industry insiders say it’s a relief. But what’s the real story?
Z107.7FM
July 5, 2025
3 More California Home Insurers Get Go-Ahead for Hefty Rate Hikes | Insurify
Property insurance rate hikes are on the way for more than 61,000 Californians, after the state’s Department of Insurance approved three insurers’ requests for higher premiums. The increases range from 5% to 40% and will affect policies for single-family home, mobile and manufactured home, condo, and renters insurance from Stillwater, Grange, and Wawanesa.
Index Journal
July 10, 2025
A coalition of home owners from Royal Crest Mobile Home Park and Fortuna Mobile Home and RV Park will make their case to the Fortuna city council to adopt a standard Rent Stabilization Ordinance as soon as possible in order to stop the further erosion of affordability of the lots their homes sit on.
Redheadedblackbelt
July 14, 2025
Senior mobile home park debate continues as county ordinance takes effect
“As soon as Harmony took over, they were saying we were going to make it an all-family park, since 1962, it’s always been a senior park,” she said. “But they felt that they could just zap and change it to an all-age family park and it wasn’t something that we as seniors wanted. We like our serenity.”
KSBY California Central Coast
July 18, 2025
As land dispute intensifies, mobile home park residents prepare for standoff against RTC next week
If the RTC is correct, that more than 40 of the lots at Castle Mobile Estates and the adjacent Blue & Gold Star Mobile Home Park partially sit on the agency’s property and in the way of its long-envisioned Coastal Rail Trail and passenger trail project, it could mean park residents — who are largely low-income and are older adults — are hit with hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs to move their properties.
Lookout Santa Cruz
July 18, 2025
Mobile home residents find little relief amid rent hikes, ownership changes
Private companies began buying up manufactured home parks across the country several years ago, finding them to be good investments. That can leave park residents dealing with faceless, often out-of-state, landlords.
Manufactured homes have long been considered affordable housing, but that’s not always the case anymore. Many residents are on fixed or low incomes.
Montana Public Radio
July 16, 2025
Onsite Water Protection Staff keep manufactured home parks safe during the hottest months
“Like other community spaces, these inspections help to ensure residents have a safe, healthy, and dignified environment to live and play,” said Wake County Commissioner Safiyah Jackson.
Wake County, N. Carolina
July 15, 2025
Council seeks to buy mobile home parks for $150,000
After the meeting, Moore said the city’s long-range goal is to develop affordable housing at the former Reecy’s West, Reecy’e East and Southwind mobile home parks.
With an influx of new jobs expected at the cannabis grow facility being developed in the Kentville Road Industrial Park, the mayor said, the need for such housing should grow over the next few years.
The Kewanee Voice
July 15, 2025
Black River Mobile Home Park residents demand answers amid water bill crisis
A coalition of home owners from Royal Crest Mobile Home Park and Fortuna Mobile Home and RV Park will make their case to the Fortuna city council to adopt a standard Rent Stabilization Ordinance as soon as possible in order to stop the further erosion of affordability of the lots their homes sit on.
ABC4 News (Andrews, S. C.)
July 16, 2025
Modular home community breaks ground on Fort Wayne’s north side
The project, called The Orchard on Wallen, is a partnership between Helix Modular Development and R. Yoder Construction. It will feature 303 one and two-bedroom units built as triplexes using modular construction techniques.
Instead of building each unit from the ground up on-site, the modules are manufactured inside a climate-controlled facility in Indianapolis, then transported to Fort Wayne and placed by crane.
“We’re about 30 to 40% faster than your traditional stick build,” said Brady Jacoba, VP of sales and marketing at Volumod, the modular manufacturer. “It eliminates the delays that come with building in the elements. You don’t have rain, snow, or heat halting progress.”
Wane.com
July 16, 2025
Whispering Pines ownership reaches agreement with state; hearing canceled
Although one issue of contention has been resolved, the Evergreen Whispering Pines mobile home community in Lee Township continues to operate without a license leaving some residents frustrated.
Midland Daily News
July 17, 2025
Council seeks to buy mobile home parks for $150,000
After the meeting, Moore said the city’s long-range goal is to develop affordable housing at the former Reecy’s West, Reecy’e East and Southwind mobile home parks.
With an influx of new jobs expected at the cannabis grow facility being developed in the Kentville Road Industrial Park, the mayor said, the need for such housing should grow over the next few years.
The Kewanee Voice
July 15, 2025
Black River Mobile Home Park residents demand answers amid water bill crisis
A coalition of home owners from Royal Crest Mobile Home Park and Fortuna Mobile Home and RV Park will make their case to the Fortuna city council to adopt a standard Rent Stabilization Ordinance as soon as possible in order to stop the further erosion of affordability of the lots their homes sit on.
ABC4 News (Andrews, S. C.)
July 16, 2025
High Point trailer park discharged feces-laden wastewater into creek for months, state says
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality assessed fines of nearly $10,500 in connection with the infractions, according to notices sent July 10 to Julio Jaramillo, managing partner of Burbank, California-based Evergreen Communities LLC, which bought the 11-acre development of more than 60 homes in February 2024.
With an influx of new jobs expected at the cannabis grow facility being developed in the Kentville Road Industrial Park, the mayor said, the need for such housing should grow over the next few years.
News & Record
July 16, 2025
‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ opens on Aug. 8
ROCK SPRINGS — Tickets for the Actors’ Mission and The Starling Company’s first collaborative project are on sale now.
The fundraising production of “The Great American Trailer Park Musical” will have four shows on Aug. 8, 9, and 10 at the Broadway Theater in downtown Rock Springs.
Rocket Miner
July 16, 2025
Gush Etzion Regional Council Chairman Yaron Rosental signed a planning contract for the creation of the new community of Bar Kochba, which will link the region with the capital.
Approximately half a year ago, a trailer park was established on the site, and now the signing of the planning contract will enable the community to be developed. This is the first community of its kind that will connect Gush Etzion to Jerusalem and serve as a key element in strengthening the continuity of settlement.
Israel National News
July 17, 2025
An Unexpected Idea for Preserving America’s Mobile Homes
Op-ed: A landscape historian argues that the preservation field can play a role in protecting manufactured housing by listing it in the National Register of Historic Places.
Next City
July 17, 2025
Equity LifeStyle Properties Sees ‘Strong Performance’ in Q2 Report
Core MH base rental income for the quarter ended June 30, 2025 increased 5.5% compared to the same period in 2024. We sold 116 new homes during the quarter ended June 30, 2025. Core MH base rental income for the six months ended June 30, 2025 increased 5.5% compared to the same period in 2024. We sold 233 new homes during the six months ended June 30, 2025.
RV Pro
July 22, 2025
The Long Fight for Tenant Power
More than a third of the US population rent their homes. The number of tenants in the country is growing fast—nearly triple the rate of homeowner growth in 2024. So, too, are the challenges they face. Tenants headed into 2025 having experienced the steepest four-year rent hike on record.
The New York Review
July 22, 2025
New housing proposal in Great Falls generates some concern
GREAT FALLS — A new housing proposal in Great Falls is generating concerns for some people in the neighborhood. The IX Blessings Mobile Home Park is planned to be built at 4600 Seventh Avenue North.
3KRTV
July 23, 2025
More Mobile Homes Dedicated in Post-Helene Asheville
One mobile home park in Asheville is undergoing a bit of a facelift. Hurricane Helene ravaged the community last fall, leaving some homes unlivable. But that pain was relieved in part earlier this month when Samaritan’s Purse provided two brand-new mobile homes to families who have lived here for years.
Samaritan’s Purse
July 23, 2025
Lawyer says tenants ‘crushed’ by court ruling they must leave B.C. mobile home park
The Chief of the Songhees Nation on Vancouver Island says a group of mobile home park residents on the Nation’s reserve are continuing to resist being evicted after losing a court challenge, while the Nation’s members live in “unsafe housing, unable
Squamish Ciief
July 23, 2025
Could prefab homes help alleviate the housing crisis?
Manufactured homes — from prefab houses shipped from a factory to double-wide mobile homes — are increasingly getting attention as an attractive, more affordable option to address the nation’s chronic housing shortage. And it’s an option that some who look to rebuild following natural disasters might be weighing.
Marketplace
July 23, 2025
Takeaways from AP’s report on water quality and safety at US mobile home parks
Millions of people living in mobile home parks don’t enjoy the same drinking water protections that Americans are accustomed to
KTBS
July 24, 2025
Expanded Vero Beach facility option for folks forced from homes?
As reported in a recent article, the city of Vero Beach is looking to foreclose on the trailer park at 1228 24th St.
The city is looking at foreclosure due to unpaid code-violation fines totaling $263,750. The owner, Jimmy Schlitt, says he cannot comply with the code requirements due to costs estimated at $255,000.
Tenant Andrea Adkins fears being evicted.
TCPalm
July 24, 2025
County Ordinance Maintains Senior Living at Orcutt Mobile Home Park
ORCUTT, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on ordinances last week maintaining that certain mobile home communities in the county are designated senior communities.
This is a win for some and a loss for others.
News Channel 12, 12, 11
July 23, 2025
As reported in a recent article, the city of Vero Beach is looking to foreclose on the trailer park at 1228 24th St.
The city is looking at foreclosure due to unpaid code-violation fines totaling $263,750. The owner, Jimmy Schlitt, says he cannot comply with the code requirements due to costs estimated at $255,000.
Tenant Andrea Adkins fears being evicted.
MSN
July, 2025
Lack of Hydrants Inside Ramon Mobile Park Raises Concerns After Fire Damages Five Homes
Residents of the Ramon Mobile Home Park are raising questions about fire safety after a fast-moving blaze damaged five homes and sent one person to the hospital last Saturday. Fire officials have since confirmed that there are no fire hydrants within the park itself — only along its perimeter.
Palm Springs Tribune
July 23, 2025
Protect Florida Mobile Home Park Residents from Unfairly Spiked Rent Increases
Campaign Created by Mary Harnetiaux
Mobile home parks are unique communities where residents own their homes but rent the land beneath them. The value of these parks is intrinsically linked to the residents’ ability to pay lot rents. When investors acquire these parks at premium prices, they often offset their investment by increasing lot rents, placing a significant financial burden on residents, many of whom are seniors or individuals on fixed incomes.
MoveOn Civic Action
July, 2025
Some residents of the mobile home park say they’ve been paying their landlord for water bills, and that those payments have skyrocketed. According to the news report, the landlord had been texting amounts to residents, and did not provide any official water bills.
AP moneywise, Yahoo News
July 29, 2025
“Pick and choose”: Pavilion Estates ban on window ACs is inconsistent, say residents
“They pick and choose who they go after. And like I said, pretty much, if you do what you’re supposed to do and you’re not a nuisance or a problem, they leave you alone,” Aitken said.
Another resident, who did not want his name published for fear of retaliation, said he had a window unit AC and was aware of the ban but has not received any writeups from Pavilion Estates. He said the park seems to overlook window units in some cases, particularly if they are not facing the road.
A third resident said the AC ban was “not in the lease agreement” or community guidelines, but was sent to residents at least once by email.
WM UK
July 28, 2025
State Health Department Alleges Indiana Code Violations At Mentone Mobile Home Park
MENTONE — The Indiana Department of Health has filed a civil plenary against a Mentone mobile home park after noticing multiple violations during an inspection.
ink Free News
July 28, 2025
Under new ownership, Leaning Evergreen tries to lower tax bills
The Buffalo lawyer representing the company, Ryan Parisi, told The Enterprise, “We believe this property is over-assessed because the combined fair market assessed value of the parcels is currently significantly above the price my client paid for the properties.”
The Altamont Enterprise Hilltowns
July 28, 2025
State Health Department Alleges Indiana Code Violations At Mentone Mobile Home Park
MENTONE — The Indiana Department of Health has filed a civil plenary against a Mentone mobile home park after noticing multiple violations during an inspection.
ink Free News
July 28, 2025
Under new ownership, Leaning Evergreen tries to lower tax bills
The Buffalo lawyer representing the company, Ryan Parisi, told The Enterprise, “We believe this property is over-assessed because the combined fair market assessed value of the parcels is currently significantly above the price my client paid for the properties.”
The Altamont Enterprise Hilltowns
July 28, 2025
Former lawmaker plans 40 manufactured homes in Augusta with room for hundreds more
A former lawmaker is looking to create a large community of manufactured homes on more than 60 acres in Maine’s capital city.
Bangor Daily News
July 29, 2025
Opinion: We must keep trying to fix our housing affordability crisis
Converting buildings like 101 Ash Street into low-income housing is costly due to structural upgrades. Mobile home parks, modular and manufactured homes offer faster, more affordable solutions, but San Diego hasn’t approved a new mobile home park in nearly 50 years.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
July 29, 2025
The cap on rent increases is going up in San Diego County. Here’s what tenants can expect
Starting this Friday, the new cap on rent increases for the San Diego region is 8.8% — an increase from last year’s limit of 8.6%. The change comes from a cost-of-living adjustment set by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
inewsource
July 28, 2025
They Own Their Homes—So Why Are Mobile Park Residents Still Getting Evicted?
This vulnerability hasn’t gone unnoticed. As real estate investors increasingly buy up mobile home parks, evictions are rising. In Florida, eviction filings jump by 40% in the months after a park is sold, according to research from Princeton’s Eviction Lab.
Unlike traditional homeowners, who generally can’t be removed without a lengthy foreclosure process, mobile home owners can face eviction with fewer legal protections.
“Speed is really a critical element here,” says Jacob Haas, senior research specialist at the Eviction Lab and co-author of a report on mobile park evictions.
Evictions typically begin with a notice after a missed lot rent payment—sometimes after just a month. If the issue isn’t resolved, the landlord can file a court case in as little as five days in Florida, compared with the months it takes for a foreclosure proceeding.
SFGate
July 24, 2025
Michigan led on safe water after Flint, but mobile home parks are stubborn rough spot
But the state has a blind spot when it comes to the hundreds of thousands of people who live in its mobile home parks.
WRAL News
July 26, 2025
Agency confirms TCE contamination and requires customers to be notified
Trichloroethylene (TCE) has been detected and confirmed in Six Oaks Mobile Home Park’s raw (source) and finished (distributed) drinking water, and the TCE exceeds 2.5 parts per billion (ppb). This level does not yet exceed the Class I groundwater quality standard for TCE of 5.0 ppb that both federal and State law allows in drinking water. However, the Right to Know provision of the Environmental Protection Act requires that the public be notified even before this Class I groundwater quality standard is exceeded in their drinking water.
Illinois.gov
July, 2025
‘It’s gone way past frustrating’: Mobile home residents frustrated over accelerated living charges
“They’re just selling their place and they’re selling it for nothing just to get the hell out,” said resident John Mathews.
Mathews has lived in that community for two years now. In that time, he says rent has gone up three times, which has left many people financially unstable.
KFYRTV
July 28, 2025
Why mobile homes get hit hard by extreme weather and how to build better
That’s partly because parks designed for mobile homes, recreational vehicles and manufactured housing are typically located on less expensive land that is at higher risk for hazards. It’s also partly a result of how older mobile homes were built.
The Washington Post
July 28, 2025
‘You are heard’: Fortuna council agrees to talk mobile home rent stabilization at a later date
A line of Royal Crest residents spoke at the meeting during public comment, calling for an ordinance to alleviate rising rents at the 55+ park as they struggle to keep afloat on fixed incomes.
“We need to be on that agenda. We don’t have time. This is predatory,” said Debra Thomas.
Times Standard
July 25, 2025
The Growing Appeal of Mobile Homes in Southern California
Southern California, in particular, is poised to see a surge in mobile home sales. The region’s high cost of living has made traditional homeownership unattainable for many. Mobile homes, often overlooked, are now stepping into the spotlight as a practical and affordable alternative.
Live Insurance News
July 29, 2025
How Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren agreed on a sweeping housing package
A sweeping package of housing reforms is gaining rare bipartisan support in the Senate, raising hopes that Congress might be able to pass legislation that would incentivize local governments and private developers to build more homes.
The Washington Post
July 30, 2025
Mobile homeowners say they feel ‘trapped’ as rising lot rents scare off buyers
Residents in an Essex mobile home community say they feel “trapped” living in the Hidden Creek mobile home community, after they say large increases to land lease and maintenance fees are scaring off potential buyers.
CBC News
July 30, 2025
Tehama County supervisor seeks action on steep mobile home rent hikes
RED BLUFF, California — A Tehama County supervisor is sounding the alarm after residents of the Bend Mobile Home and RV Park, located just northeast of Red Bluff, were hit with rent increases exceeding 50 percent. The steep hikes, implemented by new management company Park Nation, have left many residents, particularly those on fixed incomes, struggling to make ends meet.
ABC7KRCR
July 30, 2025
Landlord Doublespeak and the Rise of the ‘Housing Provider’
What drives the preference of landlords to call themselves “housing providers” is a desire to euphemize the landlord-tenant relationship and to obscure some of its basic and most important features.
Common Dreams
July 30, 2025
August 2025
The Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream, or ROAD, to Housing Act of 2025 is a bill aimed at increasing the supply of affordable housing in the U.S.
CNBC
August 1, 2025
Woman says SLO mobile home park illegally raised rent. Will she lose her trailer?
Linda Valentine is struggling to sell a trailer in the South Peak Mobile Home Park in San Louis Obispo, seen here on July 24, 2025 after she said her space rent was raised above market rate.
The Tribune
August 1, 2025
What we know about rent control and its impacts on rental housing
The Wilkes Initiative for Housing Policy at the D.C. Policy Center conducted a literature review of empirical research published in the last 20 years that examined “second-generation rent control” or “rent stabilization” laws, which permit annual rent increases and allow higher rents when units are vacated. This article provides a summary of findings from this review.
DC Policy Center
August 1, 2025
