; (13) an eviction or closure of a manufactured home community is very disruptive to a resident who may be unable to pay the thousands of dollars it takes to move the manufactured home or find a new location for the manufactured home; (14) in an effort to preserve a crucial source of affordable housing within the past two decades, a national network of housing providers has helped residents purchase and own the land under the manufactured home community, and manage the manufactured home community; (15) nationwide, there are more than 1,000 stable, permanent ownership cooperatives or nonprofit-owned developments in more than a dozen States; (16) members of manufactured home communities continue to own such homes individually, own an equal share of the land beneath the entire manufactured home community, participate in the governing of the community, and elect a board of directors who make major decisions within the manufactured home community by a democratic vote; (17) in New Hampshire, more than 20 percent of manufactured home communities are owned by residents; (18) resident-owned cooperatives and nonprofit-owned communities have flourished in Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota; (19) nationwide, only 2 percent of all manufactured home communities are resident- or nonprofit-owned; (20) manufactured home community owners often prefer to devise such property tax free, rather than selling the community, in order to avoid capital gain taxes; (21) when the owner of a manufactured home community dies, the heirs of the owner frequently sell the community to the highest bidder which results in displacement for dozens and sometimes hundreds of families