Bella Vista Estates in Boardman, Oregon, with 127 homesites, has become the largest resident-owned manufactured home community (MHC) in Oregon, according to eastoregonian.com. The non-profit Community and Shelter Assistance Program (CASA) of Oregon helped the residents form the co-op and obtain the $3.15 million financing, and continues to provide technical assistance and management training. Eighty of the 118 occupied homes have so far joined the co-op, MHProNews.com has been informed. CASA is part of the national organization, Resident-Owned Communities (ROC), and supports affordable housing for agricultural workers and low income people across the state. The organization’s Manufactured Housing Cooperative Development program converted six other communities to co-operatives. CASA says there are about 1,293 MHCs in the state with 65,500 homesites, representing a majority of the affordable housing stock for lower income people. ##

(Photo credit: E. J. Harris/eastoregonian.com Bella Vista Estates)