Thanks to every one who came out on Wednesday to the Internationalist to see a presentation of This is My Home.

It was a good turn out — enough to fill the room and then some!  CRA-NC staff was (more…)

Just a reminder, that tonight there will be a reading at the Internationalist Bookstore in Chapel Hill.  The reading begins at 7.

The Internationalist is located at 405 W. Franklin St.  Parking is onstreet.  There are also spots on Rosemary and it the surface lots along Franklin.

The Internationalist is a great setting to kick off this tour.  How?  Because it is a co-operatively owned bookstore.  I think its a reminder of the direction that we need to take in looking for solutions on reforming land lease parks.  The lesson is that people can work together, drawing upon their own talents, to create change.

The St. Paul Pioneer-Press notes that 17 mobile home parks closed in the last year in Minnesota.  That amounts to about 2 percent of the state’s manufactured housing parks.

North Carolina, by contrast, had 4,046 parks the last time the state’s (more…)

The ACLU has written a letter to the owners of Wales West RV Park in Silverhill, Alabama asking them to cease the practice of not allowing residents with HIV to use the community pool, showers and other common facilities.

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Rep. Susan Fisher has sponsored a bill in the North Carolina General Assembly that would support residents when their land-lease communities are sold. H1700 would give residents a 60 day period in which to match any sales offer. It would also provide a tax credit to owners who sell their communities to residents.

In May, Minnesota passed a law creating the Minnesota Manufactured Home Relocation Trust Fund. This law will guarantee that upon a park closure, residents will get “reasonable compensation” to move their home. If it cannot be moved, then the fund will purchase their home.

Funding for the the MMHRTF comes from an annual $12 per household dues paid (more…)