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Wash. Rev. Code § 59.22.010 (2026)

Legislative findings

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(1) The legislature finds:
(a) That manufactured housing and mobile home parks provide a source of low-cost housing to the low income, elderly, poor and infirmed, without which they could not afford private housing; but rising costs of mobile home park development and operation, as well as turnover in ownership, has resulted in mobile home park living becoming unaffordable to the low income, elderly, poor and infirmed, resulting in increased numbers of homeless persons, and persons who must look to public housing and public programs, increasing the burden on the state to meet the housing needs of its residents;
(b) That state government can play a vital role in addressing the problems confronted by mobile home park residents by providing assistance which makes it possible for mobile home park residents to acquire the mobile home parks in which they reside and convert them to resident ownership; and
(c) That to accomplish this purpose, information and technical support shall be made available through the department subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose.
(2) Therefore, it is the intent of the legislature, in order to maintain low-cost housing in mobile home parks to benefit the low income, elderly, poor and infirmed, to encourage and facilitate the conversion of mobile home parks to resident ownership, to protect low-income mobile home park residents from both physical and economic displacement, to obtain a high level of private financing for mobile home park conversions, and to help establish acceptance for resident-owned mobile home parks in the private market.
[ 2011 c 158 s 1; 1995 c 399 s 154; 1987 c 482 s 1.]

Notes:

Transfer of residual funds to manufactured home installation training account—2011 c 158: See note following RCW 43.22A.100.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 10 cases, 1993–2015 · leading case: Guimont v. Clarke, 854 P.2d 1 (Wash. 1993).
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Guimont v. Clarke, 854 P.2d 1 (Wash. 1993). · cites it 2× “" RCW 59.22.010(1)(a); see also Manheim, 1989 Wis.”
W. Plaza, LLC v. Tison, 364 P.3d 76 (Wash. 2015). · cites it 2× “It also ensures that such housing exists in the first place by making it “economically feasible” to provide it—after all, if it were economically unfeasible to operate a mobile or manufactured home park where the MHLTA applies, few people would be able to benefit from its…”
Little Mountain Estates Tenants Ass'n v. Little Mountain Estates MHC, LLC, 236 P.3d 193 (Wash. 2010). · cites it 2× “Here, an initial 25-year term with fixed increases in rent provides secured housing and financial stability to the elderly who live there, and the assignment provision makes that 25-year term economically feasible for the manufactured home park.”
Lawson v. City of Pasco, 230 P.3d 1038 (Wash. 2010). “RCW 59.22.010(2). Pasco's attempt to dislocate these individuals flies in the face of express legislative intent.”
Lawson v. City of Pasco, 168 Wash. 2d 675 (Wash. 2010). “*692 RCW 59.22.010(2). Pasco’s attempt to dislocate these individuals flies in the face of express legislative intent.”
Little Mountain Estates Tenants Ass'n v. Little Mountain Estates MHC, LLC, 192 P.3d 378 (Wash. Ct. App. 2008). “RCW 59.22.010(2). The legislature also found that “many homeowners who reside in mobile home parks are also those residents most in need of reasonable security in the siting of their manufactured homes.”
Little Mountain v. Little Mountain Estates, 236 P.3d 193 (Wash. 2010). “Here, an initial 25-year term with fixed increases in rent provides secured housing and financial stability to the elderly who live there, and the assignment provision makes that 25-year term economically feasible for the manufactured home park.”
Little Mountain Estates Tenants Ass'n v. Lme, 192 P.3d 378 (Wash. Ct. App. 2008). “RCW 59.22.010(2). The legislature also found that "many homeowners who reside in mobile home parks are also those residents most in need of reasonable security in the siting of their manufactured homes.”
W. Plaza, LLC v. Tison (Wash. 2015). “In light of the fact that MHL TA-controlled lots are often occupied by "the low income, elderly, poor and infirmed," RCW 59.22.010(1)(a), the risk of an identity thief or unscrupulous landlord fraudulently locking a tenant into an 8 Western Plaza, LLC v.”
Strauss v. City of Sedro-Woolley, 944 P.2d 1088 (Wash. Ct. App. 1997). “17 RCW, the City violates the state policy of favoring resident-owned mobile home parks, set out at RCW 59.22.010(2): "it is the intent of the legislature, in order to maintain low-cost housing in mobile home parks[,] .”
— Wash. Rev. Code § 59.22.010(1)(a) — 2 cases
Guimont v. Clarke, 854 P.2d 1 (Wash. 1993). “" RCW 59.22.010(1)(a); see also Manheim, 1989 Wis.”
W. Plaza, LLC v. Tison (Wash. 2015). “In light of the fact that MHL TA-controlled lots are often occupied by "the low income, elderly, poor and infirmed," RCW 59.22.010(1)(a), the risk of an identity thief or unscrupulous landlord fraudulently locking a tenant into an 8 Western Plaza, LLC v.”
— Wash. Rev. Code § 59.22.010(2) — 8 cases
W. Plaza, LLC v. Tison, 364 P.3d 76 (Wash. 2015). “It also ensures that such housing exists in the first place by making it “economically feasible” to provide it—after all, if it were economically unfeasible to operate a mobile or manufactured home park where the MHLTA applies, few people would be able to benefit from its…”
Little Mountain Estates Tenants Ass'n v. Little Mountain Estates MHC, LLC, 236 P.3d 193 (Wash. 2010). “Here, an initial 25-year term with fixed increases in rent provides secured housing and financial stability to the elderly who live there, and the assignment provision makes that 25-year term economically feasible for the manufactured home park.”
Lawson v. City of Pasco, 230 P.3d 1038 (Wash. 2010). “RCW 59.22.010(2). Pasco's attempt to dislocate these individuals flies in the face of express legislative intent.”
Lawson v. City of Pasco, 168 Wash. 2d 675 (Wash. 2010). “*692 RCW 59.22.010(2). Pasco’s attempt to dislocate these individuals flies in the face of express legislative intent.”
Little Mountain Estates Tenants Ass'n v. Little Mountain Estates MHC, LLC, 192 P.3d 378 (Wash. Ct. App. 2008). “RCW 59.22.010(2). The legislature also found that “many homeowners who reside in mobile home parks are also those residents most in need of reasonable security in the siting of their manufactured homes.”
— Wash. Rev. Code § 59.22.010(l)(a) — 1 case
W. Plaza, LLC v. Tison, 364 P.3d 76 (Wash. 2015). “It also ensures that such housing exists in the first place by making it “economically feasible” to provide it—after all, if it were economically unfeasible to operate a mobile or manufactured home park where the MHLTA applies, few people would be able to benefit from its…”
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