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119-hr-8047119th CongressWALLET

Promoting Resident Ownership of Manufactured Home Communities Act

Sponsored By: Representative Frost, Maxwell [D-FL-10]

Introduced

Summary

Resident ownership of manufactured home communities would get a federal boost through a new competitive HUD grant program that helps resident groups buy and own their parks. The bill sets model-law notice rules, resident purchase protections, and spending rules that prioritize land and infrastructure.

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  • Residents and homeowner groups would get stronger purchase rights. Owners must give a 60-day written notice before a sale and if a resident group representing more than 50 percent of owner-occupied homes offers matching price and substantially the same terms the owner must sell or negotiate in good faith. Residents then have 120 days to form a cooperative or corporation and arrange financing.
  • Eligibility is limited to Title I recipients in States, Indian tribes, or insular areas that adopt the bill's model laws or submit HUD-approved data showing effective purchase opportunities. Once an entity qualifies it retains eligibility for a 3-year period.
  • HUD would run the competitive grants, require at least 25 percent of funds for land acquisition and infrastructure, allow remaining funds for Title I eligible activities, and may waive some legal requirements except those protecting fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor, the environment, and benefits for low- and moderate-income people. The bill also authorizes appropriations to carry out the program.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

HUD grants to help resident buyers

If enacted, HUD would set up a competitive grant program within one year to help residents buy manufactured-home communities. The bill would authorize whatever sums Congress provides to run the program. Grant recipients would have to spend at least 25 percent of each grant on land, site acquisition, and infrastructure for a resident-owned community. Eligible buyers would have to be one of the listed owner types, such as resident-owned cooperatives, local governments, nonprofits, CDFIs, Indian tribes, housing authorities, or States. The bill would also bar these grants from reducing existing formula funding a jurisdiction gets under section 106.

Resident purchase notice and rights

If enacted, owners would have to give written notice to residents and the local housing agency at least 60 days before accepting a final sale, lease, or transfer offer. The notice would state price, terms, and deadlines, and for multi-property sales it would give both the total price and the price for the residents' community. Within 60 days, a resident homeowner group backed by owners of more than 50 percent of occupied homes could submit a purchase proposal. If the proposal matches price and substantially the same terms, the owner would have to sell; otherwise the owner must negotiate in good faith and may not reject the offer just because it includes a financing contingency. If a sale agreement is reached, residents would get 120 days to form a homeowner-governed corporation or cooperative and arrange financing, plus a commercially reasonable time to close. The bill would protect residents' rights to organize, meet, use common areas, circulate materials, and prohibits retaliation. States, tribes, or insular areas could exempt specific narrow transfer types by law.

State eligibility tests and definitions

If enacted, a State, tribe, or insular area would qualify places for the HUD grant program only after adopting model notice-and-purchase laws or submitting data that shows an "effective purchase opportunity." The bill would define that data as a 1- to 5-year period where residents got sale notice in at least 80 percent of completed community sales and residents or a resident-designated nonprofit bought at least 1 out of every 20 sales. The Secretary could change that data standard over time to reflect market conditions. The bill would also define what counts as a "manufactured housing community," including parks or courts under unified ownership where most spaces are for manufactured homes, and it may include older homes.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Frost, Maxwell [D-FL-10]

FL • D

Cosponsors

  • Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]

    DC • D

    Sponsored 5/19/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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