Supporting Manufactured Housing Action in empowering manufactured housing residents to ensure the affordability and vibrancy of their communities

This grant supports the Tides Center in providing flexible funding to Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction) to advance work that builds and wins local, state, and national housing-issue campaigns; to empower manufactured housing residents to protect and strengthen the long-term viability and affordability of manufactured home communities in rural and exurban areas; and to invest in developing leaders for progressive power-building that is accountable to low-income manufactured home residents, who are often women of multiple racial and ethnic identities. This second award will enable MHAction to continue its work to: (1) recruit and coach leaders to design and drive issue and corporate-accountability campaigns through online and offline organizing strategies; (2) foster deeper collaboration with allied state-based and national organizations to amplify the stories of directly affected people, especially to government officials; and (3) collaborate with, align capacities of, and share analyses with other housing justice networks and field leaders. This grant is being made under the project grant rule (PGR) because no RWJF funds are earmarked for lobbying; the grantee has demonstrated that its nonlobbying expenses substantially exceed the amount of RWJF's support; and the grantee has adequate non-RWJF resources to demonstrate a sufficient diversity of funding to support the project.