The NH public radio story that aired last week has now hit the national airwaves on NPR’s All Things Considered: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/02/151863518/home-sweet-mobile-home-co-ops-deliver-ownership. We’d like to point out that we are working day and night to help the community referred to in the first part of the story, in Carver, MA, to buy their park. Here’s hoping that
The Cooperative Development Institute is hiring for two part-time positions: housing program organizers in Maine and in Southeast New England. See job description below. Cooperative Development Institute (www.cdi.coop) is seeking a new hire to join its New England Resident Owned Communities (NEROC) Program (www.cdi.coop/manufacturedhousing.html). The main work of the program is to assist the residents
Congratulations to the 26 residents of Homestead Acres Mobile Home Park in Swanton, VT for officially purchasing their community today! The residents’ association, Homestead Acres Co-op, is the second to take ownership of a manufactured housing community or “mobile home park” in the State of Vermont in less than half a year–this after an 18
Press garnered about this story: Valley News newspaper: http://www.vnews.com/07262011/7941365.htm WPTV tv news: http://www.wptz.com/r/28673441/detail.html WCAX tv news: http://www.wcax.com/story/15152251/how-residents-kept-their-mobile-home-park-from-closing Windsor, VT – Nearly half a year after receiving news that their community was likely to be shut down forever, homeowners at Bunker Hill Mobile Home Park are now celebrating taking ownership of their community on June 30,
In today’s New York Times, Loren Berlin published “At More Mobile-Home Parks, a Greater Sense of Security“, a look at the growing movement for residents of manufactured home parks to form nonprofit cooperatives that purchase and manage the operations of the parks in which they live. The Cooperative Development Institute is proud to be a
