Resources for Solving Housing Challenges
Listed below are resources pertaining to critical challenges in the affordable housing space, such as mobile home park preservation, available and quality inventory, and financing.
Mobile Home Park Preservation Resources
Guides & Toolboxes
Organizations and Reports
Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA)—Mobile Home Park Financing—how CHFA helped finance the purchase of a mobile home park in Longmont, with a link to information on financing
Mobile Home Park Sales and Oversight Program (MHPOP)/Colorado Department of Local Affairs: email, phone numbers, links to many informative documents
Mobile Home Park Oversight Program Annual Report (2023)/Colorado Department of Local Affairs
Mobile Home Park Sales and Home Owners Opportunity to Purchase/Colorado Department of Local Affairs
Mobile Home Park Resources/Colorado Department of Local Affairs—Laws and links to information in English and Spanish
Mobile Home Park Organizing Guidebook—Prepared by the Sustainable Community Development Clinic at the University of Colorado Law School
ROC USA, a national nonprofit helping mobile home parks become resident owned communities (ROCs) and a lending arm called ROC USA Capital. ROC USA works with a network of regional affiliate nonprofits that provide technical assistance to mobile home park residents as they transition to resident owned communities.
Thistle Community Housing is the regional nonprofit affiliate of ROC USA in Colorado, providing technical assistance to mobile home communities. All ROC USA client communities in Colorado are required to use Thistle’s technical assistance.
Articles/Videos
The Cold, Hard Lessons of Mobile Home U.
Investors are Buying Mobile Home Parks. Residents Are Paying a Price.
No Place Like Home: Parklane Mobile Home Park Residents Secure Purchase of Community
Renters Become Owners Of Durango Mobile Home Park
How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership
The Economics of Everyday Things: Mobile Home Parks/Freakonomics Radio Network Sept. 18, 2023