Category: Mobile homes

Condo-ing mobile home parks: Part 3, who decides?

13 August, 2009 (14:04) | California, Eminent domain, Local issues, Mobile homes, Tenure, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's part 2 and the previous Part1.]
 
Two days ago, we looked at Santa Rosa’s Country Mobile Home Park, whose owner wants to condo the land (at least as reported in the San Francisco Chronicle; the owner wouldn’t talk to the newspaper), and yesterday we saw that in a forced condo conversion, land value [...]

Condo-ing mobile home parks: Part 2, at what price?

12 August, 2009 (10:29) | California, Eminent domain, Local issues, Mobile homes, Tenure, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]

Yesterday we encountered Country Mobile Home Park, an estate in Santa Rosa whose park owner is adamant about converting the land to condominiums, and selling the individual plots to those whose homes rest atop those plots.

Plots? I love plots!

[Editorial note: park owners persist in calling the land 'spaces', [...]

Condo-ing mobile home parks: Part 1, unofficial affordable housing

11 August, 2009 (15:11) | California, Eminent domain, Local issues, Mobile homes, Tenure, US News | No comments

You own a mobile home. The land is owned by a third party landlord who likes nothing better than jacking up your rents.

Legally, mobile homes that lack land aren’t real estate, and you can’t finance one as real estate; instead you get a chattel loan. You can’t avail yourself of the legal protections of [...]

Month in Review May 2009

2 July, 2009 (11:20) | AHI activities, Configuration, Housing, MEEs, Mobile homes, Month in review, Slums, Zoning and land use | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]

Though housing is the output of an enormously complex, ever-changing, hugely capitalized value chain, unlike other abstract capital-markets products like Credit Default Swaps, we all connect to it because we live in its [...]

Whose side are you on? Part 2, choose your side

29 May, 2009 (10:26) | Local issues, Mobile homes, Regulation, Slums, Travelers, Zoning and land use | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
In yesterday’s post, via a this-can’t-be-happening breathless story in the Memorial Day weekend Sunday Daily Mail, we encountered a group of British Travellers who, in the manner of worker ants setting out to build a new colony, have been industriously working nights and weekends to lay out, grade, service, and occupy [...]