Manufactured Home Communities

A lack of affordable housing continues to pervade the United States, even in sprawling, rural states like Montana. The consensus of federal, state, county, and city officials is that manufactured [...]

The headline of this article uses the words “trailer park”. This is a characterization that, unfortunately, not only still exists in the American lexicon—but is still used often, and often [...]

The Kilgore, Texas City Council has postponed a final decision to amend its manufactured home ordinances after attorneys for a mobile home park threatened to file federal housing and civil rights [...]

The Manufactured Housing Institute’s National Communities Council (MHI NCC) released its list of the 50 largest manufactured home community owners and operators in the United States. The [...]

As General Counsel for the Manufactured Housing Institute, the industry’s largest trade association, I spend a great deal of time dealing with issues relative to the Fair Housing Act. Passed [...]

A quick review of last week’s manufactured housing news indicates zoning changes for manufactured homes in Kilgore, Texas, will go before the City Council. On the FEMA front, fewer than 1,000 [...]

Hunt Mortgage Group has announced it has provided a $33.6 million loan to refinance Summit Mobile Home Park in West Hills, California. This is the first manufactured housing community in the [...]

Mobile Home Park Plaintiffs Claim Their Right To “Equal Protection” Under The 14th Amendment To The U.S. Constitution. Six months ago, the Iberia Parish Council passed two ordinances that [...]

Manufactured Housing is America’s largest single source of affordable home ownership. But manufactured housing, often located in mobile home parks, is kind of the Rodney Dangerfield of housing—it [...]

The manufactured home community represents one of the last bastions of affordable housing in the nation. Yet, companies have built only a handful of new manufactured home parks in the last 10 [...]