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Empowering communities — building a brighter future

At ROC USA, we empower manufactured home communities nationwide through cooperative resident ownership. Our integrated financing and technical assistance model ensures homeowners and their communities thrive under resident ownership and control.

Our focus on affordability, sustainability, and resident empowerment drives our mission to create stable, resilient neighborhoods where everyone has a voice and a stake in their future.

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Manufactured housing matters because housing matters

Housing costs are outpacing incomes. It’s more important than ever to make sure that good places to live are within reach of lower-income families. Resident Owned Communities are a secure, stable piece of the affordable housing solution.

Most manufactured home communities are investor owned

Owning a home on rented land leaves homeowners vulnerable to loss of housing affordability, health and safety threats when community infrastructure is disinvested in, and displacement when communities are closed for change of land use.

Every community deserves resources to promote health, safety, and success

We are Better Together. We are stronger together. When homeowners buy their community and partner with ROC USA, they can make decisions about their community democratically and decide how to make investments and improvements in community infrastructure.

What others say: ROCs provide Stability, Affordability, Control and Legacy

Manufactured housing is no longer about mobility … but about affordability.”
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We can govern the kinds of things that someone else has governed all our lives.”
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It’s just a way to feel good about closing the transaction out in a way that is ethical.”
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We’ve shown that ROCs stabilize rents and give homeowners peace of mind. The time for urgency is now.”
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Everyone deserves to live a decent life that they can afford.

Dorian Warner
Emerald Pines Cooperative, Alexandria, Minn.

What is a ROC?

A resident owned community is a neighborhood of manufactured homes owned by a cooperative of homeowners who live there as opposed to an outside investor.

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The Impact

ROC USA empowers residents by facilitating the transformation of investor-owned manufactured home communities into resident-owned cooperatives, fostering housing stability, pride and economic security.

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In 2019, shortly after the residents of Sunset Lake Cooperative purchased their community, they noticed an odor coming from their land – and not a pleasant one.

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ROC Leaders, ROC USA President talk ROCs on prominent webinar

Nonprofit Quarterly and Shelterforce put spotlight on the growing movement of cooperative ownership transforming affordable housing in manufactured home communities.

October 21, 2024

Pennsylvania homeowners buy their community with support from state funds

With $750,000 in state funding and financing from ROC USA, the residents of Royal Oaks Cooperative in Bath, Pa., secure ownership of their 33-home community for $2.95M.

October 18, 2024

Maine Governor joins Blueberry Fields Co-op’s We Own It! celebration

Blueberry Fields Cooperative is the first to benefit from Maine’s new opportunity to purchase legislation, signed into law by Gov. Janet Mills last year.

October 17, 2024

Residents of a Mobile Home Park Join Forces to Buy Their Community

The residents are the first in the state of Maine to successfully utilize a new law making it easier for them to compete with investors and gain ownership of the land their homes sit on.

October 10, 2024

Residents in Idaho purchase neighborhood from owners

A small community outside Mountain Home has made a move to ensure residents don’t have to leave due to skyrocketing rents.

October 10, 2024

ROC Association charts bold path forward

The ROC Association gathered last week at its annual meeting to refine a vision to streamline the organization to more effectively serve the 331 Member ROCs in 21 states it represents.

October 2, 2024

Sign Up Now for ROCKET’s Featured Fall Courses

Discover ROCKET’s free Fall courses for ROC Members, offering leadership skills, peer networking, and self-paced learning.

September 27, 2024

Brookfield Meadows is 330th ROC

Brookfield, MA — The residents of Brookfield Meadows, a 55+ community with 61 homes, have organized together to purchase their manufactured home park for $3.9 million, making them the newest resident-owned cooperative community in Massachusetts.

September 13, 2024

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Land ownership is a major driver of economic equity. ROC USA’s “Better Together” approach is centered on empowering homeowners to purchase and democratically govern their communities. Working in partnership with ROC USA Capital, ROC Association, our network affiliates, philanthropic organizations, financial institutions and state and local governments, ROC USA promotes asset development and wealth creation in low- and moderate-income communities.

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Join us in building stronger, more resilient communities

Make a meaningful difference in a Resident Owned Community by supporting ROC USA. Help us create new ROCs and support existing ROCs from coast to coast. Together, we can create lasting impact and brighter futures.

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