Minnesota homeowners
VS. WALL STREET
Wall Street investors are getting rich quick off of Minnesota's manufactured home communities. Manufactured homeowners fought for a Bill of Rights to protect their families. Minnesota Republicans sided with Wall Street and blocked it.
This November, whose side are you on?
Pledge to vote for leaders who stand with Minnesota homeowners.
The problem
We own our homes.
Wall Street is buying up the land underneath them.
Minnesotans of every race, age and income live in the state's roughly 800 manufactured home communities.
of Minnesota parks sold in 2024 went to out-of-state real estate investment trusts and private equity firms.
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We buy our homes and rent the land they sit on.
For many families, a manufactured home is the most affordable path to the American Dream. We own our homes and pay monthly rent on the lot underneath. When local, mom-and-pop owners ran our parks, that worked. Then Wall Street came to town.
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"Mobile" homes rarely move.
Moving one is expensive and can damage the home beyond repair. So when greedy corporations raise the rent, families are stuck, and sky-high lot rents make our homes harder to sell.
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Wall Street knows we're stuck.
Out-of-state investors buy the land, raise the rent, and cut the services we count on, betting on a captive audience.
What Happened at the Capitol
Minnesotans fought for a Manufactured Homeowners’ Bill of Rights. Minnesotan Republicans blocked it.
This election, we get a choice too. Wall Street might buy our parks, but they can’t buy our votes.
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2024
Residents start organizing
We knocked on doors in parks across Minnesota and heard the same stories again and again: huge rent increases, repairs that never came, and park owners who mistreated residents. People were fed up, and they wanted to fix it for every park in the state, not just their own. Together, we founded the Manufactured Housing Residents Collective.
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2025
A bill written by residents
Across 36 parks, we knocked on 10,000 doors and turned our experiences into a bill. 3,500 manufactured home residents signed a petition supporting it.
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2025
Homeowners pack the Capitol
Minnesotans of every race, income and zip code introduced the Bill of Rights: limits on egregious lot rent hikes, more transparency for residents, and a chance to buy our communities if park owners decide to sell.
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April 2026
The Senate passes it
After years of organizing and countless hours of homeowner testimony, the Minnesota Senate passed the bill with some bipartisan support.
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April 2026
One vote short in the House
We'd earned the support of Rep. Wayne Johnson, the one Republican vote needed to get the Bill of Rights through the Minnesota House. Fifteen minutes before our bill was heard, Rep. Johnson received a threat from GOP leadership: vote yes, and they would squash every other bill he'd authored. He walked out, and the bill fell short. Asked why, he said one word: "Politics."
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May 2026
Republicans block the bill
We had one last chance to pass our bill in the 2026 session, through the housing omnibus bill. Minnesota House Republicans voted our Bill of Rights out of it on a party-line vote.
Our Stories
these are our homes.
The Solution
A Manufactured Homeowners’ Bill of Rights.
A home is a home, whether it was built on-site or in a factory. Manufactured homeowners deserve the same stability and security as every Minnesota homeowner.
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Limits on egregious lot rent hikes
Reasonable limits on how much lot rent can go up each year, so families can plan ahead and stay in their homes.
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More transparency for residents
Clear, itemized bills, so residents know exactly what they're paying for, and no surprise fees.
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Real enforcement
Protections with teeth, so park owners have to follow the rules and keep up basic maintenance.
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A chance to buy our communities
When a park owner decides to sell, residents get a real chance to buy it themselves.
Take the pledge.
This election, I'll vote for leaders who stand with Minnesota manufactured homeowners, not Wall Street investors.