Manufactured Housing

In most states, a manufactured housing community can be sold out from under the residents without giving the residents any advance notice or any opportunity to purchase the community themselves. A few states require the residents to be given advance notice and an opportunity to purchase the community, but in most of these states there are significant gaps in the law.

Click on your state to find out whether your state provides any protections for residents against sale of their communities.

For help developing policies in your state that would foster resident ownership of manufactured housing communities, contact owilliamson@nclc.org or ccarter@nclc.org.

Has your state adopted protections that we should add to this map?  Contact MHcommunities@nclc.org

Policy Analysis

Compendum of Existing Manufactured Housing Park Laws That Foster Resident Ownership , November 7, 2008 PDF (126KB)

Protecting Fundamental Freedoms in Communities (Policy Brief)

Financing Homes in Communities

Titling Homes as Real Property

Testimony before the Urban Affairs Committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives regarding H.B. 1673, September 3, 2008 PDF (38KB)

Letter to Environmental Matters Committee regarding H.B. 1382, March 13, 2008 PDF (65KB)

Testimony before the Environmental Matters Committee of the Maryland General Assembly regarding H.B. 1382, March 12, 2008 PDF (22KB)

Resources for Attorneys

Consumer Warranty Law
A comprehensive guide to consumer warranty claims, including a chapter on manufactured homes.

Repossesssions
A detailed analysis of consumer protections against repossesssion, including lengthy subsections on manufactured home repossessions.

Foreclosures
A guide to defending consumers from foreclosure, including a chapter on manufactured homes.

Background Information and Resources

NCLC Guide to Mobile Homes

Protecting Fundamental Freedoms in Communities (Guide)

Promoting Resident Ownership of Communities

AARP Report: Manufactured Housing Tenants: Shifting the Balance of Power, June 2004

Materials from Homes on Land of Another Symposium, November 8, 2007, Washington, D.C.

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