{"id":104604,"date":"2026-02-04T06:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104604\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:12:07","slug":"shapiro-calls-for-protections-for-manufactured-home-residents-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104604\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro calls for protections for manufactured home residents | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 During his budget speech Tuesday, Gov. Josh Shapiro highlighted what he says is a growing housing problem across Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristine Ziemer, who lives in Berks County and joins us here today, knows this firsthand,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cChristine and her husband, Joe, who passed away late last year, they downsized in 2019 to move closer to their grandkids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor explained that Ziemer and her husband bought into a manufactured home community \u2014 a type of housing where residents own their homes, but not the land. According to Shapiro, more than 56,000 households across Pennsylvania live in similar communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how the trouble started,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cThe fee Christine pays to that company has nearly doubled since she moved in six years ago, creating a huge financial burden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using Ziemer\u2019s story, the governor urged lawmakers to advance a package of bills aimed at limiting lot rent increases and strengthening protections for manufactured home residents. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/hb1250\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">House Bill 1250<\/a> passed the Pennsylvania House last year with bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Judy Schwank (D-11) says the issue affects some of the most vulnerable residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are people who perhaps have owned these homes for years, have made improvements to them,\u201d Schwank said. \u201cThey can\u2019t move them. They truly are not mobile. There\u2019s no other place for them to go, and they could become homeless as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some lawmakers are now pushing to move the legislation forward, either as a standalone measure or as part of the state budget negotiations. However, the proposal has faced opposition, with some local representatives voting against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 During his budget speech Tuesday, Gov. Josh Shapiro highlighted what he says is a growing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[50465,50466,50463,33,50464,50462,28,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-104604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-christine-ziemer","9":"tag-house-bill-1250","10":"tag-housing-protections","11":"tag-josh-shapiro","12":"tag-lot-rent","13":"tag-manufactured-homes","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-reading-city","16":"tag-reading-city-headlines","17":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}