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![]() ![]() Immediately, a Board of Directors was formed and I was elected to sit on that board with eight of my neighbors. On May 13th our president signed the papers that officially made us a resident-owned community. And no one wants to buy it in a community where the rents continue to go up and the homeowners have no way to address that issue. Most communities wont accept a manufactured home thats older than a few years, so theres nowhere to move it to. They cant move the home its too expensive to move. Many of our homeowners are paying taxes on their home at the same rate as those with a conventional home. I call people who live in manufactured home communities prisoners in their own homes, she says. That creates a domino effect that doesnt bode well for prospective mobile home downsizers, according to Ishbel Dickens, executive director of the National Manufactured Home Owners Association, or NMHOA, a membership organization based in Seattle. Todays manufactured homes may be better built, more energy-efficient and far more customizable than stick-built homes, but one thing they are not is mobile. “I mean what better way? They own and run their own business.”Īlso working against the homeowner is that whole mobile misnomer. “The way that we get more wealth and happiness in this country is by giving everyone the opportunity to participate in business, and this is one way to do it through community ownership,” said Matthew Fast, program director of LEAP ROC. With guidance from LEAP, Pleasant View residents have joined together to form a cooperative and take out a $1.65 million loan $1.39 million for the land, plus funding for infrastructure improvements. RELATED: Treasure Valley housing crisis: 19,050 more homes needed by 2021 ![]() Residents are working with LEAP ROC, part of Boise-based LEAP Charities and the Idaho affiliate of ROC USA. Pleasant View will become the first mobile home park in Idaho to join the trend. The nonprofit and its affiliates provide loans to mobile homeowners so they can buy the park property and remove some of the vulnerabilities that come with not owning the land beneath their home. It’s a movement that’s growing nationwide, spearheaded by ROC USA. Instead, they’re banding together to buy the park themselves. To Romero’s relief, she and her neighbors at Pleasant View Manor in Caldwell won’t have to move. It’s been a recurring story in the Treasure Valley in recent years mobile home parks are sold and razed for new development. CALDWELL Juana Romero thought she and her family were going to need a new place to live when the owner of the mobile home park she lives in put the property up for sale. ![]()
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