ROC USA is a social venture working to make quality resident ownership viable nationwide and to expand economic opportunities for homeowners in manufactured (mobile) home communities. We envision a country in which the owners of efficient and affordable homes are economically secure in healthy and socially vibrant resident-owned communities (ROCs). We preserve and improve affordable communities; build financial assets and economic security for homeowners; foster healthy, mutually supportive communities and leaders; and innovate with local, regional and national solutions to address common ROC challenges and opportunities.
Manufactured housing is the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the US. It is home to 22 million Americans with median incomes around $30,000 vs $50,000 for residents of site-built housing. Manufactured housing can solve America’s affordable housing crisis, where subsidized housing is oversubscribed, and it can be done with little or no subsidy, making Next Step an attractive vehicle for affordable housing production.
Next Step‘s mission is putting sustainable homeownership with reach of everyone, while transforming the manufactured housing industry through consumer education, affordability and energy efficiency. The social enterprise is composed of a parent nonprofit, Next Step Network, dedicated to educating and training Network Members, with a subsidiary, Next Step Homes, handling the purchase and sale of homes from manufacturers, earning revenue from manufacturers and retailers.
We are the nation-wide membership based organization representing and advocating for manufactured home owners. The mission of the National Manufactured Home Owners Association (NMHOA) is to promote, represent, preserve, and enhance the rights and interests of manufactured home-owners throughout the United States. Among the basic principles fought for by the founding fathers of this country was that of basic property rights. The owner of a manufactured home shares the same tangible investment as does the owner of a one-bedroom condominium or a fifty-room mansion. NMHOA looks forward to the day when the owner of the manufactured home is accorded the same rights and privileges as the other property owners. First and foremost is the sense of security in their community. Safeguards must be in place to ensure the home-owner’s community is safe from sale and closure without the opportunity of the community to participate in its own self-determination. If self-determination is not achievable, home-owners should receive fair and just compensation as a result of such actions. If all people lived by the Golden Rule, there would be little need to discuss values and principles. As an organization, we value the principle of treating others the way we would like to be treated. We believe in dealing honestly and treating each other with civility and kindness. We expect the same of those outside our organization and forgive the shortcomings of those who do not meet our expectations. We embrace, endorse, and celebrate our diversity. We reach out to those who we may perceive may be different from ourselves. We seek understanding and to understand. This is not limited to our gender, ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity. It extends to the diversity of thought and ideas. We encourage creativity and looking for new ways to solve old and new problems.