Resident ownership helps US mobile homes weather climate change

Forming ownership cooperatives is helping mobile home communities across the United States to better adapt to extreme weather.

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Resident ownership could help thousands of low-income residents in mobile home parks, or MHPs, across the United States strengthen their resilience to heat, floods and other climate change-induced weather extremes, experts said.

Cooperatives allow resident owners to decide on infrastructure changes, like erecting storm shelters or planting trees, to protect against these dangers.

Comunidad Nuevo Lago is one of more than 300 communities across the United States that have become a cooperative, out of roughly 43,000 mobile home parks.

Prefabricated housing provides the most affordable unsubsidized housing stock in the country, low-income residents affordable rents and, for some, their only chance to own a home.

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