WHO WE ARE
We are the nation-wide membership based organization representing and advocating for manufactured home owners.
Mission: The mission of the National Manufactured Home Owners Association (NMHOA) is to promote, represent, preserve, and enhance the rights and interests of manufactured home-owners throughout the United States.
Mission: The mission of the National Manufactured Home Owners Association (NMHOA) is to promote, represent, preserve, and enhance the rights and interests of manufactured home-owners throughout the United States.
Vision: Among the basic principles fought for by the founding fathers of this country was that of basic property rights. The owner of a manufactured home shares the same tangible investment as does the owner of a one-bedroom condominium or a fifty-room mansion. NMHOA looks forward to the day when the owner of the manufactured home is accorded the same rights and privileges as the other property owners.
First and foremost is the sense of security in their community. Safeguards must be in place to ensure the home-owner’s community is safe from sale and closure without the opportunity of the community to participate in its own self determination. If self determination is not achievable, home-owners should receive fair and just compensation as a result of such actions.
Values: If all people lived by the Golden Rule, there would be little need to discuss values and principles. As an organization, we value the principle of treating others the way we would like to be treated. We believe in dealing honestly and treating each other with civility and kindness. We expect the same of those outside our organization and forgive the shortcomings of those who do not meet our expectations. We embrace, endorse, and celebrate our diversity. We reach out to those who we may perceive may be different from ourselves. We seek understanding and to understand. This is not limited to our gender, ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity. It extends to the diversity of thought and ideas. We encourage creativity and looking for new ways to solve old and new problems.
Manufactured Home Owners' Bill of Rights
Manufactured Home Owners' Bill of Rights
NMHOA BY-LAWS
- 17 million people, in the United States, live in manufactured homes
- There are approximately 6.8 million manufactured homes in the U.S and 2.9 million of them (43%) are situated in land lease (privately owned) communities
- In many states manufactured homes are still considered “chattel” and therefore people purchasing manufactured homes do not qualify for the standard financing/loan products or other purchasing safeguards that people purchasing stick built homes have available to them
- While most states have statutes that govern the relationship between community owners and home owners, many of these laws are weak, not enforceable, and not drafted in such a way as to provide security of tenure for manufactured home owners.
- Manufactured housing provides unsubsidized affordable homeownership opportunities for millions of seniors and young families, yet there are very few protections in place to guarantee the long term preservation of manufactured housing communities.
- Some manufactured housing community owners deny their residents the right to form home owners’ associations, the right to inform their neighbors of their rights under state law, and in other ways restrict their constitutional rights.
- Supporting the Uniform Law Commission as it approved a uniform law allowing manufactured homes to be titled as real estate;
- Requesting legislation at the federal level that would provide incentives if community owners choose to sell their properties to the home owners, the local housing authority, or another not-for-profit entity that will guarantee long-term security of tenure;
- Working at the state level to ensure stronger legal protections for people who own their homes but not the land beneath them; and
- Encouraging HUD’s support to preserve manufactured housing communities by ensuring that some of the CDBG, HOME, and other affordable housing money going to the states are earmarked for manufactured housing community preservation, and that when this money is used for preservation the community owner guarantees fundamental constitutional freedoms to the home owners.
