ORGANIZING MANUFACTURED HOME OWNERS
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.
NMHOA can provide advice as well as a variety of resources and guides for getting organized:
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