Malibu, CA — When does a “mobile home” get snapped up for a cool $4 million before it even hits the market? Answer: When it occupies a piece of rent-controlled real estate along the most desirable stretch of coastline in California. Welcome to Malibu, where three communities offer a beach house lifestyle for a fraction of what folks pay for …
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As Attitudes Change, Downsizers Choose Manufactured Homes and Land-Lease Communities
Downsizing is a popular trend these days, influenced by economic conditions, aging or health conditions, and changes in family structures. These changes are also accompanied by changes in attitudes. No longer do people feel they have to live in a 3,000 to 4,000 square foot house with a pool and other expensive amenities. The housing crash of the last decade …
Read More »2013 National Communities Council Fall Leadership Forum Enjoy a Chicago, Lake Michigan – Odyssey Dinner Cruise – US Destination
Odyssey-Lake Michigan-Chicago Skyline-Photo credit: SunTimes News Group The National Communities Council (NCC) division of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) held its first annual Fall Leadership Forum on October 16-18, 2013 in Chicago, IL. While most of the event was held at the W Center on 111 West Adams, the dinner on the 17th was held on the Lake Michigan cruise …
Read More »Manufactured Home Community (a.k.a. ‘Mobile Home Park’) Residents Pressured by Purported ‘Predators’; Who’s Behind Crisis—Who Profits from Status Quo and What Can Be Done Legally? MHVille FEA
Millions of Americans rely on manufactured home communities (MHCs) — sometimes called “mobile home parks”—as one of the few proven paths to affordable housing. But across the country, residents of such land-lease communities operated by specific firms that may be members of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) or that follow the ‘teachings’ of Mobile Home University (MHU) are under mounting …
Read More »Affordable Housing, Manufactured Homes and the Rigged System: What Every American Should Know and Why Truth-Seeking Hybrid Journalism Matters; Eye-Opening MHVille Facts-Evidence-Analysis (FEA)
During a well documented affordable housing crisis, the manufactured home industry is demonstrably underperforming as measured by historic and U.S. population growth standards. There are several possible explanations. Among them? There are sadly tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of thousands of residents in older mobile home parks or newer manufactured home communities that are living in a property …
Read More »Homeownership Rates in Europe-Other Parts of the World Compared to United States Homeownership Rate-Eye Opening Facts with Analysis and Critical MHVille Insights for Affordable Housing Advocates
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI-D) and Cavco Industries (CVCO) are two of several sources that stated that the lack of affordable housing near where it is needed in the United States cost the American economy some $2 trillion dollars annually. The U.S. produces less housing every year than it needs. That shortage of affordable housing, per economic experts and others, is …
Read More »‘Taking From People That Can’t Afford It’ Dylan Olson tells Reporters 100s of Manufactured Home Community Residents ‘Fighting Back’ Against RHP Properties ‘Disputed’ 30 Percent Site Rent Hike
‘Residents at Portside at the Beaches, a manufactured home community owned by RHP Properties, are fighting against a lot rent increase,’ says News 4 Jax in Jacksonville, FL. Residents at a RHP Properties location called Portside at the Beaches were hit with a drastic lot rent increase in June 2024. Dylan Olson and others will reportedly have their site rent …
Read More »Democratic Congressional Staffer Alleged Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Anti-Consumer, Manufactured Housing Institute Leaders Decline Comment Sam Strommen Antitrust Case Allegations–Analysis
A U.S. House of Representatives Democratic staffer told MHLivingNews/MHProNews that the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has a reputation on Capitol Hill for being anti-consumer. The context of that staffer’s remarks was connected to manufactured home industry connected financing controversies, some of which will be explored in this report. When Mobile and Manufactured Home Living News (MHLivingNews) offered Manufactured Housing Institute …
Read More »‘No Shame’ – Fact Checks: ‘The 100 Largest Mobile Home Park Owners in the U.S.’ by ‘MobileHomeU, MobileHomeParkStore Data Compared to MHPHOA’s Largest U.S. MH Community Owners List
The “No Shame” part of the headline will be explained near the end of this report and analysis. That said, flashback to 2015 when The Guardian reported that Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) had “nearly” 140,000 homesites for their residents who owned either a pre-HUD Code mobile home (MH) or a post-HUD Code manufactured home (MH). Needless to say, ELS has …
Read More »Inflation Roaring, Affordable Housing Needed Spotlight-AARP Report ‘Manufactured Housing as an Affordable Option for Older Adults’ plus ElderGuru’s Look ‘Conservative Alternatives’ to AARP
The AARP Public Policy Institute published a report that merits a closer look, given the fact that inflation is roaring and there is widespread agreement that affordable housing is in great demand. Nearly half of all Americans living in manufactured homes are over 50, said AARP, which cited the sources for their data. AARP’s report below is largely favorable to …
Read More »What Rights do Mobile/Manufactured Homeowners Leasing Land Have? Facing Eviction of Your Mobile or Manufactured Home from a Mobile Home Park or Manufactured Home Community? – Legal Resources, Tips
Mobile home or manufactured home living provides affordable, quality housing for some 22 million Americans. While millions own both their manufactured home and the land the home is placed on, several million are placed on leased land. This article is focused issues that ought to be considered by those who own or are considering buying or leasing a home in …
Read More »What is the Walmart Effect, Undocumented Workers, and How That Influences Affordable Housing Seekers and Manufactured Homeowners?
A documentary entitled “Walmart – The High Cost of Low Prices” presaged several of those observations by Kenton in the video posted below. But what does that have to do with affordable housing and manufactured homes? Follow along and, step-by-step, you may see how the dots connect. The stories in the video are gut-wrenching and tug at the heartstrings. Sometimes …
Read More »Taxpayers Shortchanged By Big Bucks, Says Manufactured Homeowners and Elected Official
The following is from Fred Neil, who is an elected official on the Dover, Delaware city council. What Neil addresses in his letter to the editor applies to various degrees to dozens of other states. This version sent to MHLivingNews has some modest tweaks by Neil from his original, but the meaning remains the same. Delaware Taxpayers Shortchanged by …
Read More »Addressing Growing Affordable Housing Crisis, Income Inequality by Enforcing Good Current Laws – Illustrated Report, Analysis
Complex problems cited in the headline can be simplified by making this specific point. Affordable housing and income or wealth inequality are in several ways related issues. Home ownership is the most common form of wealth building in America. There are already good laws ‘on the books’ that make more affordable housing available. There are also good laws that make …
Read More »Consumer Alerts! Gemini on ‘Are Warren Buffett Style Moats Harming Affordable Housing Seekers and some Community Residents?’ Clayton-21st-Champion (SKY)-Cavco (CVCO) MHI Linked Community Owners
This article for MHLivingNews is based upon the interaction with Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered Gemini found in the deeper dive report at this link here plus the document found here. That linked document is the record of the ‘chat’ or conversation between this primary writer and co-founder of MHLivingNews and MHProNews and the vast information resources available to a …
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