Manufactured Home Community Relocation Assistance Policy

On 2025-NOV-17 Council approved the "Manufactured Home Community Relocation Assistance Policy". Manufactured home communities provide important affordable housing in the City of Nanaimo. Residents in manufactured home communities can be vulnerable to displacement and may have limited affordable options when their properties are considered for redevelopment. While the Province offers some protections for residents facing eviction through the Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Act (MHPTA) and Residential Tenancy Act (RTA), this policy ensures additional relocation protections are offered to residents facing displacement when a manufactured home park property is considered for development approval.
For more information, please contact Lisa Brinkman, Manager Community Planning: lisa.brinkman@nanaimo.ca.
- Progress
Spring 2025 | The project is separated into two - Manufactured Home Community Relocation Assistance and Rental Building Tenants Relocation Assistance.
Spring/Summer 2025 | Financial feasibility analysis completed of a developer's capacity to offer tenant protection compensations.
Spring/Summer 2025 | Gathered input from a manufactured home community resident stakeholder group.
Fall 2025 | Gathered input from owners of manufactured home park properties, and invited development community to comment.
October 2025 | Council consideration of endorsement of a Manufactured Home Community Relocation Assistance Policy. Staff proceeds with Rental Building Tenant protections project.

- Documents
COUNCIL REPORTS
2025-JAN-20 Staff Report to Council – Tenant Protections Project
MEETING MINUTES
2025-APR-10 Manufactured Home Community Stakeholder Meeting Minutes
2025-MAY-21 Manufactured Home Community Stakeholder Meeting Minutes
2025-JUNE-18 Manufactured Home Community Stakeholder Meeting Minutes
2025-AUG-26 Manufactured Home Community Stakeholder Meeting Minutes
2025-SEPT-17 Manufactured Home Park Owners Meeting Minutes
PRESENTATIONS
2025-JUNE-18 Urban Matters Presentation - Manufactured Home Community Redevelopment Policy
2025-SEPT-17 Manufactured Home Community Relocation Assistance Policy Presentation
REPORTS
2025-SEPT-12 DRAFT MHC Redevelopment Financial Analysis
BACKGROUND
- Details
- Background
City Plan policy encourages “requiring tenant relocation plans as a condition of rezoning or redevelopment of existing mobile home parks and purpose-built rental buildings of four or more units” (C3.2.15).
An Integrated Action Plan priority action is to “create a tenant relocation policy to support tenants impacted by redevelopment and displacement.”
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