In addition to increasing monthly site fees, residents of private- and investor-owned manufactured home communities often face another looming threat – community closure. Ten years ago, Esther Sullivan, author of “Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’
At the 2019 ROC Leadership Institute, a new committee was formed to serve as a peer-to-peer support network for Resident Owned Communities. Two years later, the ROC Association Outreach & Education Committee is well underway – in
Energy savings for Resident Owned Communities is an important topic that all community leaders can benefit from. In this episode, we’re joined by ROC USA Capital’s Kevin Porter. Kevin is passionate about energy efficiency and serves on
All across the country, Resident Owned Communities are doing powerful things! On this episode of Ownership Matters, we’re joined by Ron Palmer, Board President at Lakeville Village in Geneseo, N.Y., to talk about his ROC’s new solar array.
Technical Assistance is crucial to the ongoing success of Resident Owned Communities – but what is it, exactly? In this episode of Ownership Matters, we’re joined by Tory Clark, the Executive Director of Northcountry Cooperative Foundation, to
On today’s episode of Ownership Matters, we’re joined by Kim Capen, the ROC Association Director for the New England Region. Kim is currently wrapping up his third and final term representing Resident Owned Communities in New England. He
In the spring of 2021, ROC USA was featured in a report by Transform Finance titled “Grassroots Community Engaged Investment: Making the Case for Community Engagement, Grassroots Participation, Democratization, and Shared Governance in Capital Interventions.” The report
En este episodio de Ser Propietario Importa, invitadas Esthela Garza y Blanca Vega comparten su experiencia capeando heladas, un huracán y más como comunidad cooperativa. Aunque la cooperativa Pasadena Trails ha sido una comunidad ROC muy exitosa por
On this week’s episode of Ownership Matters, we’re joined by industry pioneer George Allen to talk about the history and the future of manufactured housing. George is a widely respected manufactured home industry expert who was inducted
In this episode of Ownership Matters, we’re joined by Tom Powers, the Board President at Clackamas River Community Cooperative in Clackamas, Oregon. If this Resident Owned Community sounds familiar, Rana Foroohar, our guest in episode four, talked about
