Norway, Maine voters approve lot rent stabilization ordinance for mobile home parks
At a special town meeting on Oct. 15, residents of Norway, Maine, voted to limit lot rent increases at mobile home parks.
Key facts
- Norway residents approved a mobile home park lot rent stabilization ordinance at a special town meeting on Oct. 15.
- The ordinance allows one lot rent and fee increase in each 12-month period. Each increase is capped at the Consumer Price Index plus 1% and cannot exceed 5%.
- Sun Communities, a Michigan-based REIT that owns more than 500 manufactured home and RV parks, bought the 55-plus Norway Commons park four years ago.
- Resident-owned cooperative parks are exempt. So are parks where every lot is at or below an affordability threshold set at 20% of fair market rent in Oxford County.
- Supporters say a Maine law passed in 2025 as LD 1723 has let park owners raise rents as often as every three months.
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Source: Norway backs mobile home lot rent stabilization ordinance — Sun Journal, October 16, 2026. Summary and commentary by RISE Community; read the full story at the source.
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