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Official title: To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish a grant program under the Community Development Block Grant program to incentivize State laws that enable residents to purchase manufactured housing communities.
Introduced March 24, 2026 by Maxwell Frost · Last progress March 24, 2026
The bill expands federal support and legal tools to help residents purchase and stabilize manufactured housing communities—boosting affordability and tenant power—while increasing federal spending and imposing limits and administrative requirements that may reduce owners' sale flexibility and complicate implementation.
Low- and moderate-income residents of manufactured housing communities gain substantial new federal funding (including minimum shares for land/site acquisition and infrastructure) to help convert parks to resident ownership or stabilize affordable lots, making resident purchase and long-term affordability more achievable.
Owner-occupied residents who organize and win majority support get a formal right to match an owner’s sale offer and purchase their community, creating a concrete pathway for community ownership and protecting residents from unwanted sales to third parties.
Resident groups are protected in their ability to organize and use common areas without retaliation, strengthening tenant organizing, collective bargaining power, and community governance capacity.
Taxpayers will face increased federal spending to fund grants and program expansion, because the bill authorizes appropriations 'as may be necessary' to carry out the programs.
Owners of manufactured housing communities may lose flexibility and potentially receive lower sale proceeds because the bill restricts sales (e.g., gives resident groups a right to match and other sale-related limits), which could complicate transactions or reduce market value for some sellers.
Narrow eligibility rules and procedural thresholds (for example, majority-owner support and specific timing windows) could prevent small, dispersed, or less-organized resident groups from successfully purchasing their communities, limiting the bill’s effectiveness for some intended beneficiaries.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a HUD competitive grant program and notice/matching-sale rules to help residents buy manufactured home communities and finance land/infrastructure.
Creates a HUD competitive grant program to help state and local entities enable residents to buy manufactured home communities (mobile home parks). Grants fund land/site acquisition, infrastructure, and other activities that support resident ownership and cooperative or nonprofit ownership models. Requires owners to notify residents and housing agencies at least 60 days before a final sale or transfer, and gives resident groups a time-limited opportunity to submit a matching purchase offer and other protections; grants must be awarded within one year of enactment and eligibility lasts three years.