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

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)

Compendum of Existing Manufactured Housing Park Conversion Laws, February 9, 2007 PDF (77KB)

Background Information and Resources

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.

2008 Requests for Proposal

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