For years, residents of Chatham Estates in Cary lived with uncertainty after the property’s owner first announced plans to sell the mobile home park in 2023. What initially felt distant slowly became reality.
By Christmas Day 2025, eviction notices confirmed what many had feared: the community, home to more than 700 residents across 144 mobile homes, would be cleared to make way for redevelopment, with a firm move-out deadline of June 30, 2026. What followed was a gradual unraveling of one of Cary’s last remaining pockets of affordable housing.
Families began leaving in waves—some securing apartments, others purchasing homes for the first time, and many struggling to find affordable options in a rapidly changing housing market. By the end of April, roughly 50 families had already relocated, with that number steadily rising as the deadline approached…