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Mobile Home Owners Find a Lifeline Against Displacement

Written by Hallie Golden | SourceCityLab | July 18 2018, 8:00 AMWhen a landlord sells a mobile home park, it can upend an entire community. Through co-ops, residents are finding a way to stay where they live and control their rent costs. Danelle Knapp stands outside...

Mobile Home Park Residents Ask Council to Reject Townhouse Proposal

A development sign is planted outside the Blue Bonnet Mobile Home Park in Sunnyvale, Calif., July 1, 2018. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) Written by Khalida Sarwari | SourceThe Mercury News | July 17 2018, 4:04 AMA handful of dwellers left in Sunnyvale’s Blue...

Council Considers Repeal of Mobile Home Site Rental Tax

Written by Kate Magill | SourceThe Baltimore Sun | July 16, 2018 3:30 PMHoward County is home to seven mobile home parks, pockets of affordable housing in one of the country’s most expensive counties.Rent for a mobile home is relatively cheap, an average of $700 a...

Assembly Bill Promises Additional Protection for Mobile Home Owners

Written by Patrick Dwire | SourcePress Banner | July 11 2018, 12:37 PMWhile the housing affordability crisis has given rise to calls for tenant protections and rent control across the state, one of the last strongholds of affordable home ownership – mobile homes- now...

Manufactured Homes Touted as Affordable Housing Options

Written by Lindell John Kay | SourceRocky Mount Telegram | July 8, 2018Often overlooked, manufactured homes are America’s No. 1 source of unsubsidized affordable housing and remain a vital option in Rocky Mount, according to a recent study and city officials.Of...

Fire Damages Two Units in Mobile Home Park Just East of Modesto

Modesto Fire, Stanislaus Consolidated Fire and Ceres Fire Units responded Saturday July 7, 2018 to a report of a mobile home on fire in the 4100 block of Yosemite in Modesto, Calif. On scene at Holiday Manor Mobile Home Park, crews found 1 double-wide and 1...