Evictions:
The Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Act allows a landlord to end tenancy with a month's notice from the end of the last month's payment based on section 40.
Section 40(g)(i) states "has failed to comply with a material term" and "(ii)has not corrected the situation within a reasonable time after the landlord gives written notice to do so", which would be violating a park rule
or part of the tenancy agreement.
Thus in effect, if the landlord deems one with not complying with the rules after submitting a written notice and going through the RTB, you could be evicted from the park in about a month's time. Most evictions are a result of non-payment of rent.
IF the park tenancy situation were to change, it could be from one of the following scenarios:
1. A corporation could buy the park and keep running it as a mobile home park with little impact on current fees or future knowledge of their intentions.
In some cases the new corporation has been a cooperative established by the actual residents.
2. The park could be intended to be sold to a developer for an alternate use (e.g. condominiums).
The park would need to be re-zoned and sold. Homes would be reimbursed by the developer to the owner for a minimum of the amount of the city assessed value (in a recent purchase, the developer paid 25% over assessed value) and each homeowner must start a RTB dispute process to 'prove' their home cannot be moved and there is nowhere to move it to in the same area.
3. The park could just decide to close business as a park without being sold, at which point you have 12 months of no pad fees, and you can relocate your home out of the park (though there are likely no places to move it to on the island).
There is a guaranteed minimum payout to homeowners upon park closure, now $20,000 in the legislation, if you do not move your home.
Rezoning and redevelopment may happen after that year's duration to vacate.
Legislation is being requested to improve the above minimums by the BCMHO.ca (you can join them in your support).
The park does not seem in imminent danger of being closed, but being private land, the owner can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without warning.
It's important to be aware that mobile home parks can be eliminated for higher density housing, as demonstrated in the examples below.
Canada
2024 Ontario
New park owners said it's not feasible to upgrade the park and decided to close the park.
2023 Kelowna
City council members unanimously approved a “senior mobile home park overlay zone” which results in owner saying "we have decided to immediately begin the closure process"; Country Side Mobile Home Park.
2023 Kelowna
Six units slated for renovation are currently not up to today’s building standards; Golden Homes Mobile Home Park.
2022 Nanaimo ReImagined
Page 76 of the plan indicates rezoning mobile home parks: "C3.2.15 Require tenant relocation plans as a condition of rezoning or redevelopment of existing mobile home parks and purpose built rental buildings of four or more units"
2022 Greater Victoria
Songhees First Nation intend to build affordable housing for First Nations, since the Songhees took ownership in 2019.
2021 Kelowna
Redevelopment closes 133 housing units; Hiawatha mobile home park.
2017 Calgary
The City has stated it would be too costly to conduct repairs for sewer pipes under the park in wake of an aggressive redevelopment plan for the area already approved by City Council.
2013 Langford
Mobile homes lost due to rezoning: Shirlmae Trailer Park.
USA
2023 Phoenix, AZ
Mobile home park landowners are rapidly selling the land for redevelopment, forcing residents to leave.
2023 Billings, MT
The new landlord wants to move in mobile homes he owns, so residents have until September to get out.