Category: Mobile homes

Whose side are you on? Part 1, the invasion

28 May, 2009 (10:14) | Local issues, Mobile homes, Regulation, Slums, Travelers, Zoning and land use | No comments

This is a story of land invasion.
 

Do you have permits for this?
 
In utter defiance of the law, a band of informal settlers have chosen to occupy and develop land in defiance of the law. 
A tale from Istanbul, you ask?
 

Gecekondu in Alanya, Turkey
 
Or Sao Paulo?
 

Sao Paulo: Land invasion immediately adjacent to …
 

Sao Paulo: slum redevelopment [...]

First you get their attention

4 March, 2009 (10:40) | Innovations, Legislation and policy, Maryland, Mobile homes, Tenure | No comments

The story is told of the farmer who sold a rube a mule, telling the rube that the mule would only respond to Tender Loving Care. A week later the rube returned, irate, because the mule refused all commands and did no work whatsoever.

“Really,” said the farmer thoughtfully. He went to his [...]

A Christmas present for Paradise Park: Part 4, the burden of proof

2 January, 2009 (13:24) | Land use, Legal, Local issues, Mobile homes, Paradise Park, Tenure, US News, Zoning and land use | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]
 

You think that’ll impress me?
 
So far, in examining the ruling (available here in .pdf) that remanded back to district court a series of actual questions about whether the Paradise Park residents were entitled to the New Jersey Mobile Home Protection Act, we’ve seen that [...]

A Christmas present for Paradise Park: Part 3, the smoking gun

31 December, 2008 (09:21) | Legal, Local issues, Mobile homes, Paradise Park, Tenure, US News, Zoning and land use | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and Part 1.]
 
 
You think that’ll impress me?
 
To reach the ruling (available here in .pdf) whether the Paradise Park residents were entitled to the New Jersey Mobile Home Protection Act to Paradise Park, the New Jersey Appellate Court first wrote an operational definition of ‘in contemplation’ and then looked at the record, starting [...]

A Christmas present for Paradise Park: Part 2, “in contemplation”

30 December, 2008 (09:33) | Legal, Local issues, Mobile homes, Paradise Park, Tenure, US News, Zoning and land use | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
As we saw yesterday, to make In the ruling (available here in .pdf) handed down two days before Christmas regarding the applicability of the New Jersey Mobile Home Protection Act to Paradise Park, a story I’ve been following this story for 2½ years (early posts in Part 1, Part 2, Part [...]