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Good Evening, my name is Keren Croasdaile, I am a leader in the Penn Dawn Mobile Home Community. Our community fully supports HB375. Two years ago Harmony Place a mobile home community was able to work in partnership with Fairfax county and a nonprofit to make a counter offer to buy their park under the resident’s association. However, the property owner refussed to take the community offer in consideration. HB375 will give an opportunity to mobile home residents to make a market value offer and will require the owner to negotiate with residents in good faith whenever they make an offer. This protects affordable housing that Northern Virginia so desperately needs. Please protect our affordable housing and the families that rely on them. Thank you so much.

I am Marianela , community organizer in Fairfax county. We full support HB375. Two years ago Harmony Place a mobile home community was able to work in parneship with Fairfax county and a nonproffit to make a counter offer to buy the park under the residents association. However, the property owner refussed to take the community offer in consideration. HB375 will give an opportunity to mobile home residents to make a market value offer and will require the owner to negotiate with residents in good faith whenever they make an offer.

Benefits of resident ownership • For residents: Stability, affordability (lower rents because they do not need profit), and better upkeep (because they will reinvest in park). Chance to build equity by getting a federal mortgage with land ownership. • For surrounding community: Local stability. Hundreds of families can remain in place without being evicted. Better upkeep of the park by resident owners. • For locality: Maintains affordable housing without subsidy for local workers. Affordability attracts businesses. • For the park owner: The owner gets the market-rate sales price without displacing families. There is no loss of profit. The owner does not have to deal with the increasingly unpopular eviction of residents or increasing locally established compensation payments to homeowners. Localities are starting to establish rules that require developers to pay for full relocation costs and compensate mobile home owners up to fair market value if their mobile home cannot be moved from the site without damage or for full relocation costs. See Fairfax County Manufactured Housing Relocation Guidelines. Selling to a residents’ entity can avoid these expenses that would occur to a developer. Context Until recently mobile home parks were considered a business with the customers (residents) free to leave if they did not like the price or conditions. As mobile homes became less mobile (now called manufactured housing) they became difficult of impossible to relocate without damage, thus captive to increasing rents and the possibility of park sales. Affordable housing advocates now recognize mobile homes as the most deeply affordable, non-subsidized housing available across the country. Mobile home parks are increasingly being purchased by out-of-state equity firms because they are profitable and by developers who displace homeowners and convert the land to other uses. Offering tenants the Right of First Refusal (ROFR) is considered the best way to maintain stability and affordability for residents. 22 states have ROFR laws for mobile home parks, according to the National Consumer Law Center. In these states, there are 364 resident-owned communities shown on this map. In 2025, 87 Virginia mobile home parks were listed for sale or as having received a purchase offer at the Virginia Department of Housing and Urban Development. Virginia has several parks owned and run by nonprofits and one resident owned community. Because of many media stories about mass evictions of mobile home park residents, public sentiment is with the mobile home owners, many of whom are extremely vulnerable. Virginia localities are beginning to establish rules to protect mobile home owners. Some require relocation or compensation fees for displaced mobile home owners. Links are operative in attached file.