Golden Age Village is a 49-home cooperative purchased by residents in August 2022. Located in rural Emigrant, Mont., the nearest grocery stores are at least 30 miles away. Amenities are also scarce, including playgrounds – there are none within … More »
Better Together Call focuses on personal stories, practical tips and community support to navigate winter, enhance well-being and challenge stigma For Kelly Jensen, working a 5 a.m. shift at her local YMCA is worth the early wakeup call … More »
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.
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 »
BT, Inc. (Brittany Terrace) in Rock Tavern, N.Y., is a 55 and older community with 94 homes, including a site-built rental home. The ROC, which residents purchased in July 2019, recently renovated a room in the rental home that … More »
HINSDALE, Mass. – A community’s grit and determination along with state legislation that allows residents the opportunity to purchase their manufactured home communities helped secure future homeownership for Bissellville Estates residents at the end of last year. On … More »
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 »
In 2019, residents at Black Bear Village Cooperative in Conway, N.H., bought Lamplighter Mobile Home Park from Hynes Corporation. Since the late 60s, the community was owned by various cooperate and private entities under the Lamplighter Park name. There … More »
EXETER, N.H. – Beech Tree Cooperative is a small, 55 and older manufactured home community, with 27 homes and a community center, nestled in the woods of Exeter, N.H. The Members were using an older laptop that belonged … More »
Cooperative Development Institute’s WISP program could help ROCs in six states PLYMOUTH, N.H. – When the Board at Pine Gate Cooperative learned of a federal program that could provide enough funding to fix the community’s failing sewer infrastructure, … More »
