GLADSTONE, Ore. — Families at a mobile home park in Gladstone are looking to join together and purchase the land their trailers sit on, amid fears of a sale, rising rent, or displacement.
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Montana ROCs to hook into city’s water and sewer
Resident-owned Morning Star Community in Kalispell is poised to begin building water and sewer connections to the city after securing $2.15 million in funding for the undertaking.
Sarah Marchant: Achieving the homeownership dream through manufactured housing
MANY THINK that the American dream of homeownership is dead for New Hampshire families with lower incomes, but that isn’t true. While prices for starter homes continue to rise, owning a manufactured home in one of New Hampshire’s … More »
How MHC Co-ops provide housing security — and climate resilience
As mobile home owners fight rising housing costs, some of them have hit upon a solution that also helps in the fight against climate change: banding together and buying the land underneath their homes. This model of collective … More »
When the land beneath them went up for sale, these Hinsdale residents banded together to buy it
HINSDALE — To hear Gary Bird, a 15-year resident at Bissellville Estates, describe it, buying the mobile home park with his neighbors didn’t just give them land. It gave them peace of mind.
KeyBank Partners With ROC USA® To Expand Affordable Housing and Homeownership in Manufactured Home Communities
KeyBank and ROC USA jointly announce that KeyBank Foundation, the bank’s charitable foundation, is providing a three-year, $150,000 grant to ROC USA, LLC, a nonprofit social venture with a mission to support homeowners in Manufactured (“Mobile”) Home Communities … More »
New Hampshire seeks IRA grant to help low-income residents tap the benefits of solar
New Hampshire’s Department of Energy has requested a $70 million federal grant to expand community solar programs for low-income residents, an infusion of funds that supporters said could lower energy bills, accelerate decarbonization, and perhaps even catalyze the … More »
Affordable housing Co-op takes shape at Riverside Terrace manufactured housing park
At least 26 San Antonians are poised to become landowners this month, pending the final signatures for a unique, $6 million cooperative ownership and renovation deal at a trailer park that was facilitated by the city’s housing bond.
Residents of South Side Mobile Home Park in San Antonio Prepare to Become its Owners
SAN ANTONIO – When Joe Valdez and his neighbors at Riverside Terrace first met with the ROC USA in May, they were shocked and frightened to learn that their South Side mobile home park was up for sale.
Arizona mobile home parks are disappearing. This nonprofit wants to save them
It was Christmas Eve of 2020 when John Egan received a notice in the mail: In 90 days, the mobile home park where he and his wife lived in Durango, Colorado, would be put up for sale.