JOHNSON COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) – Roughly a dozen residents of several of Iowa City’s manufactured home parks spoke out against lot rent increases and safety concerns Wednesday afternoon.
Joined by the Johnson County Affordable Housing Coalition, they called on Utah-based owners, Havenpark Communities, to pause rent increases for at least two years and fix the recurring water issues within some of the neighborhoods.
Patty Swartzendruber, who has lived in Iowa City’s Lake Ridge mobile home park for more than two decades says she enjoyed living there until Havenpark purchased the property in 2022…