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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
owever, 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