; (13) eviction or closure of manufactured home communities is very disruptive to residents who may be unable to pay the thousands of dollars it takes to move their home or even find a new location for their home; (14) in the past two decades, a national network of housing providers has helped residents purchase and own the land and manage the community in order to preserve a crucial source of affordable housing; (15) nationwide, there are more than 1,000 of these stable, permanent ownership cooperatives or nonprofit-owned developments in more than a dozen States; (16) members continue to own their own homes individually and an equal share of the land beneath the entire neighborhood where everyone has a say in the way the resident-owned community is run, and major decisions are made by democratic vote by a member-elected board of directors; (17) in New Hampshire, more than 20 percent of manufactured home communities are owned by residents; (18) in Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota, resident-owned cooperatives and nonprofit ownership have flourished; (19) nationwide, only 2 percent of all manufactured home communities are resident- or nonprofit-owned; (20) owners are frequently reluctant to sell the community because they would prefer to pass the property on to their heirs tax free and avoid capital gains taxes; (21) when the owner dies, the heirs frequently sell the community to the highest bidder resulting in displacement for dozens and sometimes hundreds of families