“We all agreed that we ate like kings and queens, learned some valuable skills, and came home with a lot of great information,” says participant Bill Hodgkins, a board member who lives at Wardtown Cooperative.
Colonial Estates Embraces Resident Ownership
Homeowners at Colonial Estates in Taunton, MA, now have a new reason to be proud of where they live: they collectively own the manufactured home park. Thanks to a deal closed on August 29th, 2016, residents there no longer pay
New Staff Members Join CDI to Build Resident Ownership
Affordable housing is much easier to achieve when tenants—and not outside investors—own their land. Our New England Resident-Owned Communities (NEROC) program offers financial security and peace of mind to owners of manufactured homes who live in rental communities. NEROC secures
Climbing Rents Reversed as Triangle Court Goes Co-op
Triangle Court, a mobile home park at the foothills of the Green Mountain National Forest in Brandon, VT, is under new ownership. With help from CDI, the park residents have united to purchase the park, and it is now a resident
Cooperative Ownership Unites Oak Hill Mobile Home Park
Homeowners in the 247-home Oak Hill Mobile Home Park took a big step toward securing their financial futures when they collectively bought their neighborhood as a resident corporation this week. The Oak Hill Taunton Residents Association Inc. Board of Directors
New Co-op Owners Celebrate Saving 40 Units of Affordable Over-55 Housing
Residents of Rustic Pines Estates, an age-restricted over-55 manufactured home community located off of Plain Street in North Attleboro, have taken a giant leap forward in securing their own destiny by purchasing their park to own and run it themselves.
Meet Maine’s Two Newest Resident-Owned Communities
The residents of Sunset Terrace Mobile Home Park in Rockland and residents of Sunset Acres Mobile Home Park in Thomaston recently secured funding support from the Genesis Community Loan Fund in Brunswick, Camden National Bank in Camden, and Maine State
CDI Seeking Full-time Housing Program Specialist in Southeast MA
As we continue to grow the New England Resident Owned Communities Program, we are looking for one new team member to join us in southeast Massachusetts at full-time. Please see the summary job description below, and the full description: Position Housing
CDI Seeks 2 New Housing Program Specialists–MA & VT
As we continue to grow the New England Resident Owned Communities Program, we are looking for two new team members to join us: one in Vermont at full-time and one in southeast Massachusetts at part-time (with the possibility of increasing
Meet the Proud New Land Owners at North Ave Co-op
CDI recently helped more than 100 community members in Burlington who were at risk of losing their homes earlier this fall find an innovative way to keep them. Vermont Public Radio caught up with residents to discuss how they formed