Manufactured Home Federation of Massachusetts, Inc.

01/22/2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/realestate/mobile-home-prices.html

Census data reveals the extraordinary growth of manufactured home prices since 2017.

01/22/2024

https://www.ncsl.org/human-services/manufactured-homes-an-underutilized-source-of-affordable-housing

Manufactured homes are one strategy for increasing affordable housing and improving economic security, but barriers to access include limited financing options and restrictive zoning.

04/29/2023

MOBERLY — Residents of Sarbaum Mobile Home Park at 1502 S. Morley are packing their belongings and looking for drivers to move their trailers. In a letter dated April 10, the trailer …

12/10/2022

https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/12/09/cape-cod-mobile-home-corporate-investment-resident-buyout

https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/12/08/boston-mobile-home-parks-investment-firms-resident-impact

Big Investors buying Mobile/Manufactured Home Communities evicting residents. Lee's Trailer Park in Revere was bought last year for $5.6M owners discontinued the community and started kicking people out of the community. There are 3 articles by WBUR in Boston below or click on the above links. The MFM has been trying to find help for these people and is working with Northeast Justice.

WBUR’s Simon Rios takes us to a community near Cape Cod, where residents decided to fight back.

10/19/2022

05/26/2022

ROC and several other people testified in Washington today to get lower interest loans and infrastructure funding. Click on the link.

Subcommittee on Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

05/20/2022

For the first time since 1994, the government must update energy-efficiency standards for manufactured houses. Some, however, have already been finding workarounds.

04/26/2022

The prices of Manufactured Home Communities are rising. When will it no longer be affordable housing?

Cove Communities pays near record price for Fort Myers manufactured home community.

04/26/2022

Many low-income Americans borrow from risky mortgage lenders in their dream of becoming homeowners. The costs could be high for them and the market.

04/26/2022

The Colorado House advanced a bill Monday that seeks to expand the rights of mobile home residents, but sponsors said they were forced to remove the most important part of

03/31/2022

https://rocusa.org/news/north-street-association-becomes-27th-roc-in-massachusetts/

The residents of Glen Mobile Home Park formed North Street Association and collectively purchased the land under their homes for $4.75 million.

03/27/2022

This article was in the New York Times, regarding manufactured home communities being bought up by large Corporations and raising the rents. Click on the link below.

Across the country, corporate landlords are expanding manufactured housing portfolios and driving up rents, pushing longtime residents out.