Category: Mobile homes

A Christmas present for Paradise Park: Part 1, the facts

29 December, 2008 (10:42) | Legal, Local issues, Mobile homes, Paradise Park, Tenure, US News, Zoning and land use | No comments

I taut I taw a tummawy judgment!
 
Last Tuesday, the New Jersey Appellate Court gave a big Christmas present to the beleaguered owners of mobile homes in Paradise Park, a 61-home mobile home park ideally situated on the waterfront in northern New Jersey near New York Harbor. 
 
I’ve been following this story for 2½ years (early [...]

Slow expulsion from Paradise: Part 2, the war of attrition

21 November, 2008 (09:32) | Local issues, Mobile homes, Paradise Park, Policy, Tenure, US News | No comments

[Some previous posts on Paradise Park may be found in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5]
 
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
With New Jersey mobile home park residents covered by a comprehensive Mobile Home Park Law, you’d think that sub rosa attempts to winkle them out of their rights would be thwarted by [...]

Slow expulsion from Paradise: Part 1, just coincidence, I’m sure

20 November, 2008 (13:08) | Local issues, Mobile homes, Paradise Park, Policy, Tenure, US News | No comments

[Some previous posts on Paradise Park may be found in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5] 
[B]y misfortune, one says that God is always for the big battalions. – Voltaire.
 

We lost our right to buy
 
On television, justice is swift; in life, anything but, as revealed by the ongoing mini-saga of Paradise Park.  [...]

The mouse that roared: Disney’s employer-obstructed housing, Part 2

7 June, 2007 (09:36) | Inclusionary zoning, Local issues, Markets, Mobile homes, NIMBY, Policy, Zoning and land use |

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]

Yesterday we saw that Disney, Anaheim’s biggest employer, though it had lost a 3-2 city council vote regarding a proposed high-end residential development, was suing the city to block it and had secured support of at least one useful person, Anaheim’s mayor, Curt Pringle.

We’re friends with the mayor!

Mayor [...]

The mouse that roared: Disney’s employer-obstructed housing

6 June, 2007 (09:37) | Inclusionary zoning, Local issues, Markets, Mobile homes, NIMBY, Policy, Zoning and land use |

At a time when workforce housing, especially in blue states and cities, is becoming an ever-more-serious problem, particularly at the local level, some employers are forging partnerships with local government to create new affordable housing.

And then there is Disney, which appears to be doing everything it can to keep ‘those’ people — who make [...]