Dear APAC partners, clients, employees, funders, and stakeholders,
Over the last year, the APAC board of directors has been assessing and evaluating the vision and mission of APAC and the future of APAC and its contribution to the manufacturing home park community.
We, the APAC Board of Directors, acknowledge the contribution that APAC and its staff have made to the manufactured home park community over the past 30 years. After evaluating the options, the Board decided to search for a strategic partner to merge with.
After searching, we are pleased to announce that APAC’s board has decided to merge with the Housing Justic Center.
We thank all of you for your past support and dedication to All Park’s Alliance for Change and look forward to your continued support and involvement with the Housing Justice Center.
Please contact the Housing Justice Center at 612-807-1139 for immediate assistance or visit www.hjcmn.org
Sincerely
All Parks Alliance for Change Board of Directors
All Parks Alliance for Change is the statewide organization for Minnesota’s 180,000 manufactured home park residents. As the only organization in the state focused on manufactured housing, APAC is critical to providing an effective voice for manufactured home owners to express their needs and concerns in their parks and in the larger community. Through education, grassroots organizing, and leadership development, APAC works to improve the quality of life in park neighborhoods, to protect the rights of park residents, to advance public policy change that supports safe, affordable, dignified, and stable park communities, and to preserve these vital units of affordable housing.
Originally known as the Anoka People’s Alliance for Change, APAC was founded in 1980 by a group of park residents from the city of Blaine, who worked to eliminate no-cause evictions, and to create new storm shelter standards. These efforts eventually lead to the establishment of a special section of state law for manufactured home parks (Minnesota Statute 327C), providing numerous resident rights and protections. During the 1980s, APAC gradually expanded its focus beyond Anoka County to park residents across the seven-county metro area. In 1989, the organization changed its named to “All Parks Alliance for Change,” and in 1994, expanded its focus statewide.
APAC is led by manufactured home park residents who determine the focus and direction of the organization. Within park communities, APAC works with residents through resident associations that we help them to establish. Residents can also form APAC chapters, which is a group of APAC members from the same manufactured home park or city who join together to affirm and support our mission. APAC's board of directors is comprised entirely of residents, which sets APAC's programmatic agenda, annual and strategic plans, annual budget, and organizational policies, and hire and review the executive director.
More detailed information is available in APAC's Bylaws.
As the only organization of its kind in Minnesota, we believe our work is vital to protecting and promoting residents’ rights. APAC has several unique programs for park residents:
There is a detailed timeline of APAC's accomplishments, but a few highlights include:
APAC’s work has been recognized on a number of occasions:
More information is available in our 25th Anniversary Book, 30th Anniversary Book, and 35th Anniversary Book.