This week’s guest is Nora Gosselin, Director of Resident Acquisitions at the Cooperative Development Institute (CDI). Vernon and Nora will explore how CDI supported residents in Maine as they purchased their manufactured home community, formerly West Village Mobile Home Park, now proudly known as the Blue Rock Cooperative.
Nora Gosselin is Director of Resident Acquisitions in the Cooperative Development Institute’s New England Resident-Owned Communities (NEROC) Program. Nora helps residents in manufactured housing communities (also known as mobile home parks) across New England organize, establish cooperatives, navigate through commercial real estate transactions, access financing, and purchase their communities. Having worked with over 30 communities at various stages of the process, and completed over $60 million in transactions, they’re knowledgeable and experienced in the needs of residents, sellers, and the state laws that regulate the sale and purchases of manufactured housing communities. They have been involved in the drafting of and advocacy for Right of First Refusal laws for manufactured housing communities in Connecticut and Maine. Nora also serves on the Board of Directors for the Cooperative Fund of the Northeast, and previously lived in a multi-family housing cooperative, serving as co-op treasurer and housing coordinator.
