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They’re even coming for mobile home parks now. (news.yahoo.com)

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Ward is one of the residents at Ridgeview participating in a rent strike after new owners of the park announced they were raising rents by six percent. "I moved here because it's basically the most affordable living," said Ward, who is disabled and living off of a fixed income. The plight of residents at Ridgeview is playing out nationwide as institutional investors, led by private equity firms and real estate trusts and sometimes funded by pension funds, swoop in to buy mobile home parks. …

Residents, about half of whom are seniors or disabled people on fixed incomes, put up with the first two increases. They hoped the latest owner, Cook Properties, would address the bourbon-colored drinking water, sewage bubbling into their bathtubs and the pothole-filled roads.

When that didn't happen and a new lease with a 6% increase was imposed this year, they formed an association. About half the residents launched a rent strike in May, prompting Cook Properties to send out about 30 eviction notices.

“All they care about is raising the rent because they only care about the money,” said Jeremy Ward, 49, who gets by on just over $1,000 a month in disability payments after his legs suffered nerve damage in a car accident.

He was recently fined $10 for using a leaf blower. “I’m disabled," he said. "You guys aren’t doing your job and I get a violation?”

Blackstone company towns, except they don’t make anything. Rentier class will ultimately kick off the revolution.

The Torture Never Stops…

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

the mobile home / "trailer" park thing in the US is insane. as said in another post in here, it's the most predatory housing scheme the US has going. even if you can buy the home (because they are cheaper, cash out the door than a house), you're still paying absurd lot rent and other utilities. also, the structure is absolutely not going to protect you in an extreme weather event. even if your weather is a permanent paradise, it's going to be falling apart in 15 years. if there's one bad storm, it's going to be fucked up. they are meant to be temporary structures. like for a construction company or a disaster situation. so of course someone was like, "oh yeah, you can live in this."

also, they are not mobile. they are usually over some county line and existing in some place that has zero services or housing regulations. and it is a little fiefdom where the guy who owns it probably owns the only gas station and convenience store nearby.

i've had various family that lived in trailer parks, and despite thinking they had some kind of equity, when they finally needed to leave the place for good, they were always walking away with nothing, even if they had "bought" the trailer. also, having seen trailer parks in the UK, they seem to have some kind of council standard at least. the units all look clean and the grounds well maintained. in the US, 90% of the time they look like a movie set for a movie i wouldn't watch alone.