ORGANIZING MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITIES
Manufactured homeowners across the nation are organizing for justice. For far too long residents have been treated as second-class citizens by public officials, businesses, park owners, and the media. The results are park closings, deteriorating living conditions, and the all too familiar stereotypes used to marginalize our communities.
Park owners, developers, and governments have deeply rooted institutional power that they use to promote their values: profit, development, private property, and a notion of progress dictated by the “highest and best use” of land. The resulting state of manufactured home parks is no accident but is rather the result of deliberate practices, ideas, and policies.
Changes in the world of manufactured home parks cannot rely on a group of outsiders, regardless of their intentions. Manufactured homeowners are organizing around a different set of values: family, home, community, justice, and equality. We are building a powerful movement with manufactured homeowners at the helm creating a vehicle for their own social, economic, and political power. We need to promote our values and build our power by organizing people, ideas, and actions. None of this can be done without a strong leadership base of manufactured home park residents.
Park owners, developers, and governments have deeply rooted institutional power that they use to promote their values: profit, development, private property, and a notion of progress dictated by the “highest and best use” of land. The resulting state of manufactured home parks is no accident but is rather the result of deliberate practices, ideas, and policies.
Changes in the world of manufactured home parks cannot rely on a group of outsiders, regardless of their intentions. Manufactured homeowners are organizing around a different set of values: family, home, community, justice, and equality. We are building a powerful movement with manufactured homeowners at the helm creating a vehicle for their own social, economic, and political power. We need to promote our values and build our power by organizing people, ideas, and actions. None of this can be done without a strong leadership base of manufactured home park residents.
APAC Community Organizing Manual
Many thanks to NMHOA member, All Parks Alliance for Change for this great resource – everything you ever wanted to know about getting your community organized is here. This is an introductory document (PDF), with links to the various sections of the manual.
Many thanks to NMHOA member, All Parks Alliance for Change for this great resource – everything you ever wanted to know about getting your community organized is here. This is an introductory document (PDF), with links to the various sections of the manual.
What to Do When a Park is Closing
Here’s a good article on things to consider (as an resident) when a mobile home park is closing. Read the article from The Western Planner here.
Here’s a good article on things to consider (as an resident) when a mobile home park is closing. Read the article from The Western Planner here.
Guide to Forming Your Own HOA
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Hosting a Candidate’s Forum
There is a lot of good information here. Thank you to Nonprofit VOTE! You can access the Nonprofit VOTE website to download a copy of their guide to hosting a Candidate's Forum.
You can watch the entire webinar on Nonproift VOTE’s YouTube channel.
There is a lot of good information here. Thank you to Nonprofit VOTE! You can access the Nonprofit VOTE website to download a copy of their guide to hosting a Candidate's Forum.
You can watch the entire webinar on Nonproift VOTE’s YouTube channel.
