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What's wrong with trailer parks
by apapapa 3y ago
What's wrong with trailer parks
- 0xcde4c3db 3y agoHow much time do you have? The short version is that while there's not necessarily anything wrong with them in principle, in practice there's a pretty impressive amount of exploitation at nearly every level of the industry. It more closely resembles the dynamics of car sales and financing than it does a downmarket version of conventional real estate. https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/warren-buffetts-mobile-home-empire-preys-on-the-poor/ https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/w... https://www.npr.org/2021/09/03/1033910731/why-are-investors-buying-up-mobile-home-parks-and-evicting-residents https://www.npr.org/2021/09/03/1033910731/why-are-investors-... https://www.denverpost.com/2022/03/23/mobile-home-park-rent-house-bill-1287/ https://www.denverpost.com/2022/03/23/mobile-home-park-rent-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCC8fPQOaxU&pp=ygUebGFzdCB3ZWVrIHRvbmlnaHQgbW9iaWxlIGhvbWVz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCC8fPQOaxU&pp=ygUebGFzdCB3Z... (~16-minute Last Week Tonight segment)
- lukas099 3y agoThat is essentially what these are. Edit: and to answer your question, nothing. People should be allowed to build and live in those too.
- Ekaros 3y agoNot too much, but they aren't efficient enough either...