ABOUT Mobilehome Magazine

              Our Mission

              At Mobilehome Magazine, our mission is to provide clear, independent, and homeowner-focused reporting on issues affecting mobilehome residents and communities.

Mobilehome living plays a vital role in affordable housing across the United States, yet residents often face complex rules, uneven enforcement, and power imbalances that are poorly understood and rarely explained from a resident perspective. Mobilehome Magazine exists to help close that gap.

Through educational articles, analysis, and historical context, we examine the policies, practices, and trends that shape life in mobilehome communities. Our work is grounded in research, lived experience, and a commitment to accuracy—not industry influence or commercial interests.

We believe informed residents are better equipped to protect their rights, participate constructively in their communities, and advocate for fair and transparent treatment. By publishing accessible, fact-based information, Mobilehome Magazine supports greater understanding, accountability, and long-term stability for mobilehome residents nationwide.

               We envision a future in which mobilehome residents are fully informed, fairly treated, and meaningfully included in decisions that affect their homes and communities.

In this vision, mobilehome living is recognized as an essential part of the nation’s affordable housing landscape, and the voices of residents are respected alongside those of policymakers, owners, and regulators. Information about laws, policies, and community practices is accessible, accurate, and presented in a way residents can understand and use.

Mobilehome Magazine seeks to contribute to this future by documenting issues, preserving institutional knowledge, and providing thoughtful analysis that helps residents, advocates, and decision-makers better understand how mobilehome communities function—and how they can function better.

We believe transparency, context, and informed dialogue are essential to long-term stability. When residents have access to reliable information and a public record of shared experience, communities are better equipped to address challenges, improve accountability, and protect the security and dignity of those who call mobilehome parks home

Respect. Fairness. Stability

              Our Vision

About the Editor

Frank Wodley is a longtime homeowner advocate and author with more than two decades of experience researching, writing about, and engaging with issues affecting mobilehome residents and homeowner associations.

His work focuses on governance, transparency, affordability, and the lived realities of community-based housing. Drawing on extensive personal experience, public records, and historical research, Frank’s writing seeks to explain complex systems in plain language and preserve institutional knowledge that is often overlooked or lost.

Frank has published multiple books and hundreds of articles examining how community housing operates in practice, where structural weaknesses tend to arise, and why informed residents are essential to healthy, stable communities. His approach emphasizes education, documentation, and context rather than ideology or partisanship.

Through Mobilehome Magazine, Frank contributes independent, resident-focused reporting intended to help readers better understand the policies, practices, and trends shaping mobilehome living across the United States.

Testimonials

Some Kind Words About Our Advocacy

The Modesto Advocacy

“COMO-CAL instantly became a vital resource for material and data we didn’t even know existed. The organization is for park residents throughout California who are striving for survival. COMO-CAL’s newsletter, THE VOICE, provides information on current and future challenges we confront, and help is a phone call away. A bonus is the ability to become involved in State legislation that affects all of us. Become an active member of COMO-CAL and join ‘the force’ fighting for YOUR rights.”

Butte County Mobilehome Owners Association (BCMOA)

“COMO-CAL... Best potential for helping mobilehome residents in parks. Frank has the best newsletter – THE VOICE – becoming increasingly effective in Sacramento... certainly deserves the support of mobilehome residents.”

★★★★★

Mel Robinson, Lakefront Mobile Home Community, Lakeside, CA

“I would like to first congratulate you on your professionalism in THE VOICE. The publication is filled with essential and informative information for those living in Mobile Home Communities in California. I am the past President of COMPAC, INC (County Mobilehome Political Action Committee) in San Diego County and have watched the growth of the Coalition of Mobilehome Owners in the state. Congratulations. A great job with the issues of legislation at the state level. We sure must work hard for our rights, don’t we?”

Roger Svensson, Rancho Santa Barbara MHP

“COMO-CAL is a group that calls an ACE an ACE and a SPADE a SPADE! If you want answers, examples, and direct help, this is the organization to be a part of. I have been involved in mobile home park politics for over five years, and can say this organization is outstanding. They pull no punches when it comes to greedy and dishonest park owners. A better choice is to let COMO-CAL help you with their experience and share the info with the rest of us so we can all learn.”

Chuck Zenisek, Foothill Terrace, La Verne, CA

Mobilehome Magazine also offers a 36-page Handbook of Frequently Asked Questions. I’ve found this to be very understandable and worthwhile. I highly recommend that every mobilehome owner get a copy. It is invaluable.”

Terry Carlton, Canoga Mobile Estates, Canoga Park, CA

“I am a new subscriber to Mobilehome Magazine, and I have to say, there is no magazine like it anywhere. All the articles are very detailed, well researched, concise, and crucial to mobile homeowners. Mobilehome Magazine also addresses forced condo conversions, protecting inheritance rights, long-term leases, how to refinance, and just about every situation a mobile homeowner can encounter. All in all, we mobile homeowners owe it to ourselves to be as informed as possible. The old saying goes, ‘The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.’ I urge my fellow mobile homeowners to pick up a copy and read it cover to cover.”