August 2020 Newsletter
(Sigue abajo en español) From Fruitport, Michigan and Great Falls, Montana to Santa Ana, California and exurban Miami, Florida, residents in manufactured home communities (mobile home parks) are rising up against predatory corporations and building [...]
New York: Demands to Protect Our Families, Neighbors, and Communities in the COVID-19 Crisis!
Nueva York: Demandas para proteger a nuestras familias, vecinos y comunidades durante la crisis de COVID-19! We are organizing to hold corporate community owners and elected officials accountable to our community needs during the COVID-19 [...]
Dueños de comunidades de viviendas prefabricadas y funcionarios de Florida desatienden las necesidades de salud de los residentes
MHAction y Human Impact Partners publicaron hoy un informe, “Nuestras casas, nuestra salud: promoviendo la justicia de la vivienda y la justicia climática para las comunidades de viviendas prefabricadas de Florida”, que detalla los impactos [...]
Manufactured Home Community Owners and Florida Officials Are Failing Residents’ Health Needs
Today, MHAction and Human Impact Partners released a report, "Our Homes, Our Health: Ensuring Climate and Housing Justice for Florida's Manufactured Home Communities", that details the negative health impacts that Florida's manufactured home residents face [...]
We’re hiring! Be a part of the MHAction team!
Join MHAction's dynamic and growing staff team! MHAction is seeking an Online Organizing and Systems Manager to oversee our innovative online organizing program and provide key administrative support to MHAction’s issue campaigns and leadership development [...]
MHAction’s Hurricane Dorian Informational Memo
Our thoughts and prayers go out to manufactured home community residents who are preparing for and impacted by Hurricane Dorian. MHAction organizes community leaders and partners with allies to ensure manufactured home communities are affordable [...]
Our new report details the private equity industry’s threat to manufactured home communities
Our new report with Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial Reform details private equity convergence on manufactured housing.
Arkon Mobile Home leaders deliver letter to CEO Kevin Bupp
On Friday leaders from Akron Mobile Home Park in Akron, NY traveled to Clearwater, FL to attempt to talk with the CEO of the corporate owner of their community, Kevin Bupp.
Join our national conference call, December 12th!
MHAction is launching a national campaign calling for two of the largest corporate manufactured home community owners to meet with residents and change their business practices.
MHAction hosting two trainings in Florida, November 7 and 8th
Florida manufactured homeowners, please join us at two trainings, November 7th or 8th, on just hurricane recovery and rent stabilization!
Toolkit for California Manufactured Homeowners to help repeal Costa Hawkins and expand rent control
We've added a toolkit on our "talking about economic justice" page for residents of manufactured home communities in California who want to help pass the Affordable Housing Act, a people-driven ballot initiative to repeal the [...]
MHAction’s Keeping Families Together Statement
Dear MHAction supporters, friends, and allies, This moment calls on the MHAction community to come together and stand up for immigrant families that are being abused by the Trump Administration’s immigration policy. MHAction’s Core Team [...]
June 20th, phone call for residents of RV Horizons communities
Residents of communities owned by RV Horizons are continuing their organizing efforts to improve conditions in their communities and address concerns about rent, fees, rent-to-own contracts, and maintenance. Join us for this call on June 10th [...]
Phone call for CA manufactured homeowners/ conferencia telefónica para propietarios de viviendas manufacturados de CA, June 14th, 6:30 Pacific
Join other California manufactured homeowners by phone on June 14th to discuss a 2018 ballot initiative to expand rent control, and how manufactured homeowners can organize around this issue.
Community call on winning rent control in Illinois, June 6th, 6pm Central
Join Illinois manufactured homeowners for an update on efforts to repeal our state's rent control ban and a discussion of how to continue building momentum for this effort.
Release: Ben Carson Insults Tenants in Person While Hiking Their Rents
75 low and moderate income tenants and manufactured homeowners asked Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson at the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Conference in Las Vegas, “where will we go”. Carson insulted tenants and manufactured homeowners by responding “this is what happens when the swamp gets ahold of people.”
Day of Action for Affordable Housing in Sacramento
California Manufactured homeowners from Humboldt and Sonoma Counties traveled to Sacramento to join hundreds of tenants and affordable housing activists for a day of action to deliver the more than 550,000 signatures gathered to place the Affordable Housing Act on the November ballot, and to call for a package of several other bills that would help to address the state's housing crisis.
Join our conference call to kick corporate greed out of our communities!
Join MHAction and residents of communities owned by Sunrise Capital Investors for a conference call on April 26th to discuss how to ensure our communities are treated fairly.
National Community Call, Feb 21st, on threats to HUD protections
This January, HUD announced that it would be seeking public comment on protections relating to manufactured housing as part of their overall review of these policies. Public comment will be accepted through February 28th. It [...]
Conference call for California manufactured homeowners, Feb 6th at 6pm Pacific
Join California manufactured homeowners to discuss the Costa-Hawkins Act, efforts to repeal it, and what repeal could mean for affordable housing in the state.
MHAction statement in response to Medicaid work requirements
MHAction is concerned about proposed changes to Medicaid that would included work requirements.
MHAction 2018 Winter Newsletter
Read and share our latest newsletter for highlights from what MHAction leaders worked on during the fall.
Residents of RV Horizons owned communities confront investors
Watch residents of communities owned by RV Horizons from Illinois and Texas confront Frank Rolfe at his Mobile Home University Investor Boot Camp training session in Austin, Texas on December 1st.
October 18th March for A Just Recovery Press Release
Margie Mathers, a MHAction Community Leader from North Fort Myers, Florida will be joining the March for a Just Recovery on October 19th in Washington, D.C. This event which is being hosted by the Center for Popular [...]
