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Not what MHP residents want to hear

Christopher Ebert
March 13, 2023

We finally have more displacement articles than rent increase articles. Hooray!

Enjoy!

What We Are Reading

The Goods - Manufactured Housing

Phoenix City Council Eyes Rezoning To Prevent Mobile Home Evictions — Phoenix, AZ

For the first time in a while, residents of Periwinkle and other Phoenix mobile home parks celebrated a win in the fight for their homes.

The fight to save Denver’s last mobile home parks — Denver, CO

Nonprofits, politicians and residents are racing the clock to fight displacement from a mobile home park in Westwood.

Bill aiding mobile home relocations sailing through Arizona Legislature — Phoenix, AZ

Arizona lawmakers are racing the clock to offer aid to residents of valley mobile homes facing eviction as soon as next month so developers can build new homes.

People living in Pulaski County mobile home park say they’re blindsided after receiving 30-day vacate notice — Pulaski County, AR

Renters at a mobile home park in Pulaski County said they were blindsided after the new landlord sent out a notice to vacate, giving them just 30 days to pack up and leave.

Pines Trailer Park HOA votes to form co-op, buy park land — Bradenton, FL

The homeowners in the Pines Trailer Park, 103 Church Ave. in Bradenton Beach, said they voted Feb. 24 to form a cooperative.

Mobile home park tenants get eviction notice after 45 years — Santa Fe County, NM

What used to be called the Dale Mobile Village was named after the owner Jack Dale, who ran the place for decades with his wife.

Uncertainty remains at Naples mobile home park after rent rise, damage wrought by Hurricane Ian — Naples, FL

Naples mobile home residents feel helpless as community moves forward with post-hurricane rebuild.

23 days without water: mobile home park owner ordered to explain — Durango, CO

The state filed a motion Friday demanding that Darlene Mann, owner of the Lightner Creek Mobile Home Park, explain why she has yet to comply with a Feb. 28 court order that she supply 20 gallons of potable water to each resident of the park per day.

'This is just terrible:' Maine mobile home park residents go weeks without water — Wiscasset, ME

A mobile home park on the Midcoast has been without water for about a month. Residents have spent a lot of time and money to find a way around it, even though some now have running water again.

Mobile home park tenants buy neighborhood for $1.15 million — Livingston, MT

Late last year, the residents of Frontier Court, a trailer park in north Livingston, got some unpleasant news. They’d been annexed by the city of Livingston and the landlord had to sell due to the high cost of decommissioning septic systems and connecting to the municipal sewer system.

General Real Estate News

Blackstone CMBS Default Presages Bad Times for Property Owners. (Link)

Regulatory and Affordability

Nearly a Third of Americans Could Lose Their Homes if They Got Laid Off, Survey Finds. (Link)
'I've got five babies in the car': Inside the fight to get on affordable housing waitlists. (Link)

Charts Making Us Smarter

Public Markets Corner

Sun Communities Investor Presentation (Nyse: Sui) - March 2023

Court Decision Supports Sustainable Home Developer Marshall Gobuty in Cortez Canal Wars

Marshall Gobuty, president of Cortez Road Investments & Finance (CRIF) and founder of Pearl Homes, the developer of Hunters Point, the first-ever NET Zero certified & LEED Platinum community of sustainable homes, has prevailed over MHC Cortez Village (MHC) in Cortez Road's quest for a permit to build docks for its Hunters Point canal-side homes.