Private equity firms driving up rents, evictions in mobile home parks

Private equity firms are buying mobile home parks, driving up rents and evictions, and putting affordable homeownership out ...
OPB

Manufactured home park residents pray for relief as lawmakers aim at rent

Neatly trimmed hedges and green Astroturf lawns line the winding streets at Cascade Park Estates in Southeast Vancouver. But the tidy façade in mobile home communities like this one hides the stress ...
The Inlander

Manufactured home owners are reimagining stable housing as local communities face untenable rent increases

Jinny Curtiss' home is beautiful. It has cream siding with forest green trim around the windows. Inside, songbird knickknacks perch atop a vintage wooden hutch that separates the kitchen from a tidy, ...
NPR

Some mobile home owners say they're being priced out by rising lot rent

Rent prices for lots in manufactured or mobile home parks are on the rise, according to census data. Some home owners say the increases are pricing them out of the homes they own. Some mobile and ...
NPR

Mobile Home Owners Are Upset About Rising Costs To Rent Land

Roughly 20 million Americans live in mobile homes, once billed as low-cost living. But mobile home parks have become a target investment for real estate companies who are jacking up fees. About 20 ...