Sen. Cameron Reny’s bill to establish the Manufactured Housing Community and Mobile Home Park Preservation and Assistance Fund receives public hearing

AUGUSTA – On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, a bill sponsored by Sen. Cameron Reny, D-Bristol, received a public hearing in the Joint Standing Committee on Housing and Economic Development. LD 1016, “An Act to Establish the Manufactured Housing Community and Mobile Home Park Preservation and Assistance Fund,” would support affordability of manufactured housing communities and mobile home parks.

“Mobile homes and manufactured housing parks are some of the last affordable housing options in our state,” said Sen. Reny. “As wealthy investors and companies continue to buy up mobile home parks, rents are skyrocketing and leaving vulnerable Mainers with nowhere to go. This bill would add another tool to our toolbox to preserve this vital affordable housing.”

The Manufactured Housing Community and Mobile Home Park Preservation and Assistance Fund would source its money from a fee of $10,000 paid by certain buyers of manufactured housing communities or mobile home parks. The fee would be assessed for each manufactured housing community lot or mobile home park lot in the community. The bill directs the Maine State Housing Authority to administer the fund.

State and municipal housing authorities, resident/owner cooperatives and smaller companies and individuals with a net worth less than $50 million would be exempt from the fee. Structuring the fee in this way would encourage ownership of mobile home parks by small businesses or residents themselves.

Sen. Reny represents Maine Senate District 13, which includes most of Lincoln County and the towns of Washington and Windsor.

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