ROC USA’s nonprofit LLC Member — the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) — released a major study on Wednesday that was picked up by the NY Times. It measures the strength of people’s savings and how “banked” households … More »
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Anonymous donor rescues mobile homes from auction at Missoula courthouse
How’s that headline for a grabber? The Missoulian newspaper is reporting that an generous anonymous donor stepped forward to pay the back taxes on 30-40 mobile homes in Missoula, keeping those homes from going on the auction block. … More »
Hillcrest Mobile Home Tenants Association, Inc. debuts online
ROC USA® today launched a marketing website for Hillcrest Estates, a 94-home resident-owned community in Middleborough, Mass. Hillcrest Estates, which opened in the early 1970s and became a RO C in November 2013, boasts a suburban feel that’s … More »
Cascade Village, Lakeview Terrace and Ponderosa make magazine splash
The three-community purchase in Moses Lake, Wash., was big news at Northwest Cooperative Development Center. It was big news at ROC USA. And it was big news in Moses Lake. The Columbia Basin Herald ran a story in … More »
Preston: Residents likely saving $65 in rent every month
Colleen Preston recently told AARP Foundation that the benefits of resident ownership are easy to find — all residents have to do is check their wallets. Preston, a ROC Association Director and resident of Cranberry Village in Carver, … More »
Mountain West region ROCs re-elect ROC Association Director to second term
CONCORD, N.H. – Liz Wood of Duvall, Wash., has been re-elected to a second term as Director for the ROC Association. Wood lives in Duvall Riverside Village where she serves as Member at Large on the Board of … More »
2 ROCs land Better Together Grants
Two resident-owned manufactured home communities have won neighborhood improvement grants that will fund projects designed to improve the lives of the homeowners who live there. Pine Tree Village Residents Association of Carver, Mass., and Pine Hill Homeowners Cooperative, … More »
Oregon Affordable Housing Provider Completes Construction on one of Oregon’s First Resident-Owned Manufactured Housing Communities
CASA of Oregon helps Horizon Homeowners Cooperative members complete the construction of their manufactured housing community McMinnville, OR (October 6, 2009) — On Saturday, October 10, 2009, members of the Horizon Homeowners Cooperative, the former Victor Manor Mobile … More »