Manufactured Home Communities

Some residents of Oak Creek, a manufactured home community in Coeur d’Alene with almost 500 residents, hope to form a coalition and buy the park. Source: (Coeur d’Alene Press) – Those who live in [...]

A couple from Atherton, California, considered the wealthiest town in America, has paid $40.7 million for a 315-space mobile home park in San Jose. A family trust led by John and Margaret [...]

Competition for housing has driven up home prices across Massachusetts. Some of the biggest gains have happened in mobile home communities where residents can least afford to pay more. Boston [...]

There are in excess of 22 million people in the U.S. that reside in manufactured homes. A large portion of that population lives in land lease communities throughout every state in the union. A [...]

(Source: Wall Street Journal) –The following are excerpts from an obituary by James R. Hagerty for WSJ. John Boll, who started his career as a digger of sewer ditches, relaunched himself in the [...]

The following editorial by the Traverse City Record-Eagle posted by the Daily Press examines the unsettling of mobile home residents as private equity firms and REITS gobble up mobile home parks, [...]

Source: The REALDEAL —- Mobile home REIT Sun Communities has bought two complexes in Riverside County, California for $40 million. Together, the two parks – one in Jurupa Valley and another in [...]

According to a May 27, 2021 online report by Colorado Newsline,  U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne is pushing for tenant’s rights to extend to residents of manufactured housing communities to protect them [...]

(The following contains excerpts from extensive reports by Ariana Figueroa posted online by Missouri Independent (part 1) and Pagosa Daily Post (part 2), concerning the vulnerability of mobile [...]

The following contains excerpts from a Friday April 1, 2022 online report by the Sierra Sun Times.   At a hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, U.S. Senator [...]