We highlighted the mobile home park with homes selling for millions of dollars (link here). Now, let’s look at another unique park (albeit for a different reason), what the Daily Star dubs “Pervert Park” (link here). If the name didn’t give it away, it’s a community for registered sex offenders.

Oh yeah, and a lot of parks are closing.

Enjoy!

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People are warned not to bring kids even near America's Pervert Park, which is home to 120 sex offenders. The small enclave in St Petersburg, Florida brings a new meaning to 'trailer trash'.

One resident’s story of loss at Lake Bradford Estates echoes complaints and lawsuits about the property’s owners in other parts of the U.S.

Residents of the Dallas Pike Campground and Mobile Home Park got devastating news in a letter this week. They must be out by July 1st. The property has been sold, and the new owners have no interest in maintaining the facility.

A longtime mobile home is park shutting down. Close to 100 North Las Vegas families have been told they have to move from the Pair A Dice Senior Mobile Home Park.

In a heartbreaking turn of events, residents of Primrose Estates, a mobile home park in Mesa, Arizona, have received notices informing them that they have 180 days to find alternative housing. The mobile home park's management cited the potential future use of the land as the reason behind the eviction, leaving residents anxious and uncertain about their future. This blog post delves into the situation, shedding light on the challenges faced by the community and the urgent need for support.

Residents of the Periwinkle Mobile Home Park near Grand Canyon University in Phoenix have been on notice to find a new place to call home. GCU bought the property with plans to develop student housing, and the deadline to move out was Sunday.

Vadis McDonald, 93, said she’s been bombarded with calls weekly from people wanting to buy her mobile home park. Her family started Smith Mobile Home Park at least 50 years ago. It’s one of two mobile home parks that sit near the entrance of Fayetteville Regional Airport, property she wants her son and grandchildren to inherit.

A legal battle over evictions at the Pine Haven manufactured home park in Lincoln prompts Delaware’s Manufactured Home Relocation Authority to refine some of its policies regarding residents of recreational vehicles — a less-common form of housing in Delaware's manufactured home communities.

A new bill passed by the state Senate on Wednesday would give mobile home park residents the first chance to buy their land if the park’s owner decides to sell the property.

Just two weeks after Richmond City Council passed an ordinance declaring Virginia’s capital to be in the throes of an affordable housing crisis, that same body rejected a special use permit to allow a local nonprofit to manufacture affordable housing on the city’s Southside. The cognitive dissonance required to make such a decision was not lost on the councilwoman behind the sole yay vote, Ann-Frances Lambert of the 3rd District.

Potholes in the roadways, trash scattered around dumpsters and abandoned mobile homes, demolished trailers sitting in piles amid occupied mobile homes, and overall blight once plagued Westside Mobile Home Park in South Boston.

A married Pinellas County couple has sued a mobile home park and two service contractors over a disease afflicting the husband. The couple are tenants of the park. The lawsuit alleges the enduring illness was contracted in July 2022 from using the park’s community hot tub.

The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has named Dolce Vita as the West's 2023 Land-Lease Community of the Year award winner. This marks Dolce Vita's first time winning this prestigious award. The manufactured home community was established in 1999 and later renamed Dolce Vita, which means "Sweet Life." Over the last three years, management has worked to enhance and modernize the already unequaled Apache Junction resort, transforming it into one of the Phoenix Metro area's finest communities.

Two months after residents of a Laurel-area manufactured home park were told not to use their tap water for cooking, bathing or drinking, Delaware’s Office of Drinking Water issued notices declaring that the new well at the park is safe.

As residents of a mobile home park in South Aberdeen continue to push for regulation of rising rents, the Aberdeen City Council last week considered an ordinance that would extend the notification period for rent increases.

A young mother revealed what she makes her four children for lunch while living in a trailer park, setting off a debate about whether the meal was sufficient.

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