Most people who own houses own the land underneath them. When they want to move, they sell the house and the land. This is not the case with owners of mobile homes. They live a hybrid existence: They ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Nancy DeCamp can no longer bear to enter the home on lot 257. Her sister Tootie lived here, just a golf cart ride from where Nancy shares a place with her husband in their ...
Sisters Edith, Carolina and Maribel Velarde watch as workers from Magnolia Movers struggle to fit their fridge through the front door of their home at Congress Mobile Home Park in Austin on Aug. 29.
Worried about private equity ownership, residents explore purchasing parks and running them as cooperatives. Wisconsin ...
This is the second story in a two-part series about mobile homes in Massachusetts. Read the first part here. Michael Baptiste Sr. still works a couple of days a week for a gas company. The 72-year-old ...
Mobile home parks have long been one of the last bastions of affordable housing in America. For millions of residents, they offer the dream of homeownership at a fraction of the cost of traditional ...
Millions of Americans live in mobile-home parks because they are the only place they can afford to buy homes. But many are now at the mercy of big companies that own the land underneath those homes.
Mobile home parks provide a lot of affordable housing, but affordability can disappear when parks are sold. New efforts are trying to help park residents buy the land under their homes. Mobile home ...