District of Columbia Manufactured / mobile home parks

Manufactured / mobile home parks in District of Columbia

A full-text search of the official Code of the District of Columbia, current through November 3, 2026 on the D.C. Law Library, found no District-wide manufactured-home-park or mobile-home-park tenancy statute that sets notice periods, just-cause limits, lot-rent rules, or other park-specific occupancy rights. Hits on the stems "mobile home," "manufactured home," "trailer camp," and related terms are vehicle, secured-transaction, energy-efficiency, or public-accommodation definitions, not a park-tenancy statute. Title 42, chapters 32 (Landlord and Tenant) and 35 (Rental Housing Generally) also contain no manufactured-home-park tenancy rule. Under § 42-3501.03(14) and (33), a "housing accommodation" is any structure or building in the District containing one or more rental units and the land appurtenant to it, and a "rental unit" is any part of a housing accommodation rented or offered for rent for residential occupancy, including an apartment, efficiency apartment, room, single-family house and the land appurtenant to it, a suite of rooms, or a duplex. Those definitions do not mention manufactured-home lots, and this answer does not decide whether chapter 35 applies to a particular lot rental. The Human Rights Act lists "trailer camps" among places of public accommodation in § 2-1401.02(24). That is an antidiscrimination definition, not a tenancy or eviction rule. Lease terms and other law, including the Housing Regulations or the general rental-housing statutes, may still apply. Other official-code hits that use those stems, and that are not treated as a park-tenancy rule, are: § 8-1771.02(b)(3) (energy-efficiency standards do not apply to products installed in mobile manufactured homes at the time of construction); §§ 22-3215(a) and 22-3233 (criminal motor-vehicle definitions that include a self-propelled mobile home); § 50-601(6) (installment sales: "motor vehicle" includes a mobile home); § 50-501(9) (automobile consumer protection: the term "motor vehicle" does not include motor homes or motorized recreational vehicles); and Uniform Commercial Code Article 9, including § 28:9-102(53) and (54) (definitions of "manufactured home" and "manufactured-home transaction" for secured transactions). § 42-1218 authorizes Recorder of Deeds fees for recording liens on motor vehicles or trailers. Missing information is not treated as "no restriction."

Verified Source: D.C. Code tit. 42, chs. 32 and 35; D.C. Code §§ 42-3501.03, 2-1401.02(24), 8-1771.02, 22-3215, 22-3233, 50-601, 50-501, 28:9-102 (full-text search of the official D.C. Code) · last checked 2026-11-12