From:  Commandant of the Marine Corps
To:      Distribution List

Subj:   FAMILY HOUSING MOBILE HOME PARKS

Ref:    (a)  MCO P11000.22

1.  The purpose of this letter is to provide policy relating to the plan to privatize and ultimately close Marine Corps mobile home parks.

2.  Mobile home parks were developed at a time when housing requirements and standards of adequacy were different than they are today.  As the Marine Corps continues to implement the family housing master plan, bases and stations will enter into business agreements that will build, operate, maintain and manage excellent quality homes and communities through Public-Private Ventures (PPVs).  When government-owned housing is privatized, mobile home parks will also be privatized and ultimately phased out.  Mobile home park management is not a core competency and in many cases the existing park land is needed for housing construction.

3.  In order to minimize potential for financial harm to existing mobile home owners, the Marine Corps plans to have PPV partners offer to purchase the mobile homes.  The purchase offer would be based on an independent appraisal that considers both the value of the mobile home itself and the impact of the location of the mobile home park on resale value.  Mobile home owners will be offered the choice of selling their mobile home to the PPV partner and being moved into a PPV home or the private sector, or retaining their mobile home and having the PPV partner move it to a park in the private sector.  The timing of the phase out of each mobile home park would be determined by the construction schedule for each PPV.

4.  Buyouts cannot occur before execution of a PPV.  The PPV partners, not the Marine Corps, will be offering to but the mobile homes.  In the event that existing mobile home owners transfer or leave active service prior to execution of a PPV and are unable to sell their mobile homes, installation commanders are granted a waiver to reference (a) and will have the authority to permit those owners to sublease their mobile homes to an eligible military family until the buyout offer can be made.

5.  The HQMC points of contact regarding this issue are Karen Ayers or Sandra Randolph, (703) 695-9854 or DSN 225-9854.


                                                                  Richard L. Kelly
                                                                  Deputy Commandant
                                                                  Installations and Logistics