In 2011, it was chance that took Marjory Gilsrud and her husband, Mike, to a home in the Madelia Mobile Village Cooperative. But it’s choice that has kept them in the resident-owned mobile home park in rural Minnesota.
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$15.5 million awarded to 46 manufactured housing communities for water infrastructure projects
Governor Phil Scott and the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) today announced $13.3 million in Healthy Homes Initiative awards and $2.2 million in Three-acre Stormwater Initiative awards to help 46 manufactured housing communities (also known as mobile home parks) repair, replace, and … More »
HUD Reforms to Manufactured Housing Policy Could Unlock More Affordable Homes
A new set of policies from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is aimed at supporting residents of manufactured housing as one approach to boosting the affordable housing supply.
To Fight Rising Rents, These Fresno County Residents Bought Their Manufactured Home Community
After years of fighting rising rents, a group of mostly Oaxacan farmworkers in Fresno County have done the seemingly impossible: purchased their mobile home park from its corporate landlord. The group officially closed escrow on the park Thursday.
Shaheen Applauds Action to Advance Programs to Increase Housing Affordability and Support Manufactured Housing Communities
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) applauded new action by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and U.S. Department of the Treasury that will help Granite Staters access affordable housing and to support … More »
Maine receives grant for Clean Energy Initiative
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced a $10 million federal grant to fund whole-home heat pump solutions for mobile and manufactured homes, aiming to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions in rural areas.
In Mill Creek, Wash., Sherwood Village Co-op residents purchased the land beneath their homes
MILL CREEK — Ken and Karen Florczak found a notice taped to the front door of their doublewide mobile home early last summer. The land they lived on was up for sale. The notice scared the couple. A … More »
Royal Crest Residents Association in West Wareham, Mass., keeps rents down and spirits up
It’s been just under two years since the mobile home park Royal Crest became resident owned and the Residents Association has been hard at work to keep lot rents down and still to provide a satisfying community experience. … More »
Is This The $129,000 Solution to America’s Housing Crisis?
High mortgage rates, lack of supply and elevated prices of homes have made the dream of owning a house for a lot of first-time buyers out of reach. But some experts suggest that one option that could help … More »
How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership
Creating and preserving quality affordable housing is notoriously difficult, with the number of available units declining each year as landlords raise rents ever higher. An underappreciated tool for closing this gap—potentially benefitting millions of US households—involves resident-owned manufactured housing communities.