Manufactured Home Community Residents seek Rent Control in Northern CA
The Humboldt Mobilehome Owners Coalition is seeking a ballot initiative to put rent control in manufactured home communities (MHC) to the voters in Humboldt County, in far Northern California,...
View ArticleRent Control in Manufactured Home Communities Inhibits New Development
As Sheila Dey, Executive Director of the Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association (WMHCA), writes in publicceo, rent control is not the solution to the affordable housing crisis now...
View ArticleExcessive Rent Control Results in $3.3M Judgment for Colony Cove MHC
A United States District Court jury awarded the owner of Colony Cove manufactured home community (MHC) $3.3 million in damages against the city of Carson, California for violating his constitutional...
View ArticleArcata, CA Residents Concerned about Rents in MH Community
Following concerns expressed by manufactured home community (MHC) residents in Arcata, California regarding rising site rents, the Arcata City Council directed the Community Development Department to...
View ArticleResident Councilman leads charge for new law that Manufactured Home Community...
“It started last fall when we issued a permit to allow a manufactured home on a regular single-family lot,” said Ann Marie Townshend, director of Dover’s Planning and Community Development. “It got...
View ArticleCandidates, citizens talk rent control, manufactured home community issues at...
The Controversy – two sides of rent control – are found in what looked to be a political event at an ice cream social. It began when the North Santa Barbara County Manufactured Homeowners Team (NSBMHT)...
View ArticleCommunity Owners, Residents Clash over Measure V
A full-blown battle over rent control is on in Humboldt County, CA, reports the Lost Coast Outpost’s Ryan Burns. The Humboldt Mobilehome Owner Coalition established a ballot measure, Measure V, that...
View ArticleMeasure V – Battle Lines Drawn
“As the moms and pops that built our mobile home parks age out, predatory, out-of-town corporate investors have been taking over.” – Measure V proponents “Once rent control is adopted, politicians will...
View ArticleRent Control Measure Victorious, Questions, Issues Remain
In a highly charged campaign that focused on rent control measures for manufactured home communities, Humboldt County, California’s Measure V passed on November 8th with 54.57 percent of the vote. The...
View ArticleMHCs and Rent Control – Cure or Cause for Affordable Housing Crisis?
The housing and human services commission in Sunnyvale, California, has made a significant recommendation to the city council. Per the San Jose Mercury News, on November 16th the commission unanimously...
View ArticleManufactured Home Owners Gather
napavalleyregister reports 80 people, representing a three county area just north of San Francisco, heard five speakers at the Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners League (GSMOL) address issues of...
View ArticleMHC Residents Exact Revenge at the Polls
Following a story we last covered June 6, 2012, when a ballot measure (Proposition E) to eliminate rent control in MHCs was defeated in Oceanside, Calif., residents of the city’s 17 MHCs said they...
View ArticleFla. MHC Residents Organizing to Change Rent Hikes
The Ledger tells MHProNews residents of MHCs around Fla. are organizing to pressure the Florida Legislature into enacting legislation that would link rent hikes to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in...
View ArticleAfter Much Speculation, MHC will go on the Block
With scattered talk off and on about the possibility of their MHC being sold or closed, the 200 residents of Easton Mobile Home Park in Easton, Mass., long at odds with owner Morgan Management, LLC,...
View ArticleResidents want to Buy their Community
Under Massachusetts law, MHC residents have the opportunity to match an offer by a third party to buy their community once it is offered for sale. Wheel Estates’ owner Morgan Management has a signed...
View ArticleMHC Residents Gather over Rent Control Issue
GTWeekly informs MHProNews residents and former residents of De Anza Mobile Home Park in Santa Cruz, Calif. gathered recently to discuss the community’s loss of rent control in 2003 after a four-year...
View ArticleMHC Owner Wins Right to Sell Sites
As follow-up to a story we last posted May 17, 2011 whereby the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed a lower court’s ruling that rent control at Rancho Mobile Home Estates in Goleta, Calif. is constitutional,...
View ArticleRent Control Set to Expire
According to philly.com, rent controls for the 46 low or moderate-income residents of Tricia Meadows manufactured housing community in Mount Laurel, NJ will expire at the end of the year and become...
View ArticleRent Control Measure Moves to House
Updating a post MHProNews last covered May 2, 2013, regarding the rent justification bill in the Delaware General Assembly, delaware.newszap reports the measure passed the Senate 17-2, in stark...
View ArticleU. S. Supreme Court may Hear Rent Control Challenge
The U. S. Ninth Circuit denial to rehear the Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) vs. City Of San Rafael ruling may lead to a battle in the U. S. Supreme Court. The court’s decision handed down in April...
View ArticleSenate Modifies Rent Control Bill
According to capegazette.village soup, the Delaware Senate modified the rent justification measure that will limit manufactured housing community owners ability to raise rent, a story MHProNews has...
View ArticleDel. Rent Control Law to be Explained
Following the receipt of letters by manufactured housing community residents from landlords allegedly trying to lock them into long-term leases with built-in increases, two Del. lawmakers are holding a...
View ArticleRent Control Passes Massachusetts House
Updating a story MHProNews last published Feb. 15, 2013 regarding a freeze on rents residents of Easton Mobile Home Park won in Easton, Mass. in 2005, and then lost in 2011 when the freeze expired,...
View ArticleRent Control for Town Passed by State House
Residents at Brookside Mobile Home Park complaining about rising rents in their community has led to a state bill authorizing rent and eviction control rules in Acushnet, Massachusetts. Town Meeting...
View ArticleState Representative says Rent Control will Pass
Updating a story MHProNews posted Tue., Aug 13, concerning the state house’s passage of a rent control measure for the four manufactured housing communities in Acushnet, Massachusetts, Rep. Robert M....
View ArticleRent Control Victors Get Subdivision OK’d by city
The battle over rent control in Capitola, CA’s Sand and Surf manufactured home community is one that MHProNews has tracked for industry readers over the years, in Daily Business News articles like the...
View ArticleCity seeks balance on Rent control issue?
The Lakeport, CA City Council voted to wait for a report from an agency before proceeding on a proposed rent control initiative that has enough petitioners to achieve ballot status. Save our Seniors...
View ArticleHigh Demand for Manufactured Homes in Manitoba, but limited spaces in MH...
Demand for Canada’s version of manufactured housing is rising rapidly in Manitoba, at the very time spaces in provincial land lease communities are scarce. With single family home sales in the region...
View ArticleRent Control Set to Expire Dec. 31
A Superior Court judge’s ruling that rent controls established in 1984 for the Tricia Meadows land lease community of Mount Laurel, New Jersey will expire Dec. 31 has led to a lawsuit opposing the...
View ArticleRent Control Initiative on Calif. Ballot
A manufactured housing community (MHC) senior rent control initiative may become law when it goes on the ballot for voters to decide in Lakeport, California on the June 2014 referendum. The Board of...
View ArticleLand Lease Community Owner Builds Gargantuan Home
At 60,000 square feet, Chateau des Fleurs (chateau of the flowers) is one of the largest homes in the tony Bel Air section of Los Angeles. With a ballroom, three elevators, a pool, a paddle tennis...
View ArticleU. S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Equity LifeStyle Properties Appeal
Capping a 14-year legal battle between the city of San Rafael, California and Contempo Marin manufactured housing community (MHC), the United States Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that...
View ArticleRent Control Initiatives Challenged by Land Lease Community Owners
Following a story MHProNews.com first posted Aug. 23, 2013, both the Lake County (Calif.) Board of Supervisors and the Lakeport City Council have rent control initiatives regarding manufactured housing...
View ArticleCity Refuses Request to Adopt Rent Control in MHCs
The topic at the Camarillo (Calif.) City Council turned to rent control as requested by residents of the Lamplighter Mobile Home Park because of their grievances against the owner, Irvine-based...
View ArticleModular Classrooms to be Considered for Calif. School
While the most recent news from Lake County, California that MHProNews has published dealt with rent control in manufactured housing communities Feb. 5, 2014, record-bee.com reports the Middletown...
View ArticleRent Control Set for Ballot Measure in California City
The Huntington Beach (California) City Council voted 4-3 to bring the issue of rent control for residents of the city’s manufactured housing communities (MHCs) to a ballot measure for voters. MHC...
View ArticleManufactured Home Community Rent Control on Public Meeting agenda
The City of Santa Clarita, CA, will host three public comment meetings to discuss draft updates to Santa Clarita Municipal Code 6.02, the Manufactured Home Park Rent Adjustment Procedures. Meetings are...
View ArticleCarson City Attorney’s Mission to Stop MH leads to Mission work for LDS
City Attorney William Wynder from Carson City, California has stepped down after 35 years. Along with his wife, they plan to do mission work next. Wynder said: “It has been way harder to leave than I...
View ArticleAuthorities Prevent Residents’ Association From Raising Their Own Site Rent
A manufactured home community in North Adams, Massachusetts, has experienced some roadblocks in trying to raise their own site rent $40 per month in order to make needed improvements. Wheel Estates was...
View ArticleRent Control Expanded to Include Fair Rate of Return and Non-Standard Increases
The Santa Clarita (California) City Council is ready to consider revisions to the ordinance that governs rents for residents of area manufactured home communities (MHCs), according to signalscv. The...
View ArticleSunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Jan. 17 -Jan. 24, 2016
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Reality Check – Living Better When Quality Living Costs Less Outside the Box: Inventing New Looks for Manufactured Homes What’s New in...
View ArticleUPDATE: MHC Future in Doubt, the Other Side of Rent Control
In an update to the story that the Daily Business News originally covered here, residents at the Thetis Lake Campground community in View Royal, British Columbia, Canada, are facing an imminent threat....
View ArticleManufactured Home Community Owner Alert, Rent Control, MHAction Plans...
“Rent control fights are heating up in California and Illinois, and manufactured homeowners are continuing to organize for better treatment from corporate landlords,” the leftist-activist group,...
View ArticleCity Settles Case with Community Owner for $1.5 Million
The City of Chino recently reached a $1.5 million settlement with a manufactured home community owner. The suit originally asked for $34 million, and was filed in July 2010 by Chino MHC, owner of...
View ArticleTim Sheahan, NMHOA President, Controversial Points of Agreement with Marty...
When it comes to doing relevant fact checks, analysis, and commentary, timing is everything. “In 1970, my city of San Marcos had a population of less than 4,000 and was part of the dramatic...
View Article“Results vs. Resistance,” Cutting Fog with Facts for MHVille
Some 72 percent of Americans believe that misinformation from media is common today, said a recent Axios poll. Distortions of reality impacts manufactured housing in a variety of ways. The light of...
View ArticleAffordable Housing and the Two Sides of Rent Control, in Two Videos – Pros...
As a disclosure, MHProNews has argued for years that however good it sounds, rent-control doesn’t work in practice. That noted, as the affordable housing debate is only growing, and some are pushing...
View ArticlePanicking Manufactured Home Community Residents Turning to Rent Control Demands
Residents of a manufactured home community in Marin County, California are stressing over announced rent increases that will hit them in July 1, 2019. Per CBS local affiliate KPIX 5, the sharp...
View ArticleHavenpark Capital Management Responds to Senator Elizabeth Warren,...
The formal response to a letter in late May 2019 from Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA-D) and Congressman Dave Loebsack (IA-D) to Havenpark Capital has been obtained by MHProNews. ICYMI, or want a...
View ArticleWill New State Rent Control Laws Conflict With Presidential Affordable...
Starting with specific examples from a large state, a trend spreading to other states will come into focus. “As you know, the New York Housing Association has been battling the adoption of rent...
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