My name is Faith Ward. I serve on the co-op board of my resident-owned manufactured-home community. It’s safe to say I am the face of manufactured housing.

Our volunteer board has successfully managed our community for 15 years. We’ve overcome economic challenges, maintenance issues and management disputes. Resident-owned communities, or “ROCs,” allow people like myself, on limited incomes, to secure our homes and decide our own futures.

SB 210 would effectively end the possibility of anymore New Hampshire parks becoming ROCs. It would make it harder for a co-op to vote to become a ROC. Instead, big out-of-state companies will step in, buy our parks and raise lot rents to where we can’t afford them. We see it all the time now, when residents can’t or don’t buy their parks.

Why make it even easier to take away the dream of home ownership, especially in this economy?

I urge New Hampshire Senators to reject SB 210. Leave the rules regarding ROCs alone.