Editing Mobile home (section)

== Mobile home parks ==
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[[File:FEMA - 44989 - Ames, Iowa Mobile Homes Under Water.jpg|thumb|Meadow Lanes Estates Mobile Home Park, [[Ames, Iowa]], August 2010, during a flood]]
Mobile homes are often sited in land lease communities known as [[trailer park]]s (also 'trailer courts', 'mobile home parks', 'mobile home communities', 'manufactured home communities', 'factory-built home communities' etc.); these communities allow homeowners to rent space on which to place a home. In addition to providing space, the site often provides basic utilities such as water, sewer, electricity, or natural gas and other amenities such as mowing, garbage removal, community rooms, pools, and playgrounds.

There are over 38,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mhbo.com/ |title= Database of Mobile Home Parks in the United States |access-date=2009-02-17}}</ref> trailer parks in the United States ranging in size from 5 to over 1,000 home sites. Although most parks appeal to meeting basic housing needs, some communities specialize towards certain segments of the market. One subset of mobile home parks, retirement communities, restrict residents to those age 55 and older. Another subset of mobile home parks, seasonal communities, are located in popular vacation destinations or are used as a location for summer homes. In New York State, as of 2019, there were 1,811 parks with 83,929 homes.<ref name="Liberatore"/>

Newer homes, particularly double-wides, tend to be built to much higher standards than their predecessors and meet the [[building code]]s applicable to most areas. That has led to a reduction in the rate of value depreciation of most used units.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.answers.com/topic/mobile-home |title= Homes |website= [[Answers.com]] |access-date=2006-09-12}}</ref>

Additionally, modern homes tend to be built from materials similar to those used in site-built homes rather than inferior, lighter-weight materials. They are also more likely to physically resemble site-built homes. Often, the primary differentiation in appearance is that factory-built homes tend to have less of a roof slope so that they can be readily transported underneath bridges and overpasses.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}}

The number of double-wide units sold exceeds the number of single-wides, which is due in part to the aforementioned zoning restrictions. Another reason for higher sales is the spaciousness of double-wide units, which are now comparable to site-built homes. Single-wide units are still popular primarily in rural areas, where there are fewer restrictions. They are frequently used as temporary housing in areas affected by natural disasters when restrictions are temporarily waived.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}}

Another recent trend has been parks in which the owner of the mobile home owns the lot on which their unit is parked. Some of these communities simply provide land in a homogeneous neighborhood, but others are operated more like condominiums with club homes complete with swimming pools and meeting rooms which are shared by all of the residents, who are required to pay membership fees and dues.