PRICE is a $500 million grant program specific to resident-owned communities like ours and nonprofit manufactured home communities to support critical infrastructure improvements and resident purchases. The U.S House Appropriations Committee voted to include the PRICE program in … More »
Media Coverage
MISSOULIAN: MONTANA MANUFACTURED HOME RESIDENTS FACE EVICTIONS, RISING RENTS, FLOOD THREATS
Although they’re often the most affordable type of housing, trailer homes are a precarious living situation because the owners don’t own the land and can find themselves displaced if an owner decides to sell or redevelop the property.
CONCORD MONITOR: HOMEOWNERS CELEBRATE 20 YEARS OF RESIDENT OWNERSHIP IN NEW HAMPSHIRE ROC
Looking out for their neighbors to keep the community running smoothly is at the heart of what these community leaders do. They have ideas for a Halloween party, or breakfast for residents on Saturday mornings – anything to … More »
MISSOULIAN: Residents of Missoula community to buy property to prevent displacement
Missoula city council’s housing committee has voted to approve contracts totaling $850,000 to allow Old Hellgate Village mobile home park to become a Resident-Owned Community, or ROC.
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 Harbor Village RV and Mobile Home Park for infrastructure repair and other costs at its August 5, 2022 … More »
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 on a very real meaning at the LMP Longmont mobile home park. This is the kind of place … More »
Madras (Ore.) mobile home park forms housing co-operative
When Shawn King got a letter in the mail Sept. 15, 2021, that the owners of the mobile home park she lived in was selling the land, she thought the chances of her rent remaining reasonable and remaining … More »
The New York Times: Investors Are Buying Mobile Home Parks. Residents Are Paying a Price
GOLDEN, Colo. — When Sarah Clement moved to the Golden Hills mobile home park two years ago, she felt like she had won the lottery. After years of squeezing into one-bedroom apartments with her, her 7-year-old son finally … More »
Flathead Beacon: Solving the Housing Crisis
COLUMBIA FALLS, Mont. – Last October, 28-year-old Devynn Fetter came home to her single-wide trailer in Columbia Falls to find a pamphlet on her door that said the owners of the manufactured-home park were selling and they were … More »
No landlord: Mobile home community finds stability in self-government
DURANGO, COLO. – One sunny, cold morning last January, John Egan joined fellow mobile home park residents on a neighbor’s front porch. They needed to organize. But how?