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As mobile home parks see major rent spikes, Montana Legislature has little appetite for affordable housing solutions
Montana 67th Legislative Session
April 29, 2021
Mobile home parks are one of the last strongholds of reliable affordable housing in Montana, helping people of a wide range of income levels become homeowners, even as prices for most other residence types in across the state continue to spike.
But as investment firms snap up properties across the state, there are signs that even mobile homes may soon become out of reach for many Montanans.
It’s certainly a worry for Cindy Newman, who owns a mobile home in the Highwoods Mobile Home Park in Great Falls, which Utah-based investment firm Havenpark Capital bought in late 2019.
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Exa Fay Hooten was born at home in Floydada, Texas to Maude Latham Hooten and Richard W. Hooten on Aug. 27, 1928. She was the oldest of Tom and Lula (Brady) Latham’s many grandchildren and she felt a strong need to set an example for her cousins. She was a lifetime member of the Church of Christ and lived at Christian Village in Abilene throughout its tenure as a retirement facility.
Exa Fay’s parents valued education. Being teachers themselves, their livelihoods required frequent moves. In 1940 Exa Fay enrolled in Woodson school. During the times that her mother completed graduate coursework at Texas Tech, Exa Fay lived with Maude’s parents on their Masters Community farm while her brother, Alton Ray, stayed with some of Maude’s siblings.
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“When you wake up, you wonder, are you getting water,” she said.
It has been a bumpy transition for the residents.
Katelyn Anton sits down with her daughter Kassie, 13, while working on remote homework from her bedroom Friday at the family’s house in Meadowlark Mobile Home Park in Billings. Even with the struggles new owners faced in the mobile home park, Kassie, an eighth-grader, was recently placed on an honors roll with a perfect GPA.