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ROC USA welcomes Devenie Scott as business systems analyst

CONCORD, N.H. — ROC USA® is pleased to announce that Devenie Scott has been hired as the business systems analyst in the operations …
August 24, 2022

Seven Days: Upward Mobility: With Housing in Short Supply, Mobile Home Parks Are Having a Moment. For Good Reasons, It Turns Out.

Lots at Williston Woods mobile home park are a coveted prize. Realtors contact homeowners directly to ask if they’re thinking …
August 17, 2022

Harbor Village Cooperative Transferring into the hands of those who live there

The Housing Stability Council of the state of Oregon’s Housing and Community Services approved $8.04 million of funding to the …
August 16, 2022

Vice News: America’s Last Affordable Housing is Under Threat

Across the US, corporate buyers are purchasing mobile home parks and driving up rents for those on the brink of …
August 15, 2022

ROCs save homeowners $600 a year after just five years of ownership

CONCORD, N.H. – It doesn’t take long for homeowners in Resident Owned Communities to realize the impact of buying their …
August 15, 2022

The Boston Globe: On Cape Cod, a band of mobile home owners fight for their park: ‘The vultures want it! But they’re not going to get it’

Investors nationwide of buying up mobile home parks from mom-and-pop operators. Tenants often suffer.
August 14, 2022

The Washington Post: How a group of moms turned a Virginia trailer park into a village

To spend time with the moms is to see: Alone, some could find themselves drowning. But together, they’ve been able …
August 13, 2022

Sixteen Resident Owned Communities Receive Better Together Grants

CONCORD, N.H. — Sixteen Resident Owned Communities (ROCs) received the good news over the weekend that their Better Together Grant …
August 1, 2022

Royal Crest Residents Association Becomes 28th Resident Owned Community in Massachusetts

  Wareham, Massachusetts – On July 28, Carol Carver went from leasing the land under her manufactured home to being …
July 29, 2022

The Conversation: Debunking stereotypes about mobile homes could make them a new face of affordable housing

When you hear the words “trailer park” or “mobile home park,” what comes to mind? Crime? Poverty? Vulnerability to natural …
July 29, 2022

Rocky Mountain PBS: How life — and rent — improved when residents took ownership of a Longmont mobile home park

LONGMONT, Colo. — Donde cabe uno, caben dos. The Spanish version of the saying, “If I eat, we all eat,” takes …
July 29, 2022

Rocky Mountain PBS: Residents in Golden deal with the aftermath of a private company buying their mobile home park

GOLDEN, Colo. — On any given day, Ken Erwin is looking for odd jobs for his neighbors to do. He’s trying …
July 23, 2022
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