Yeah I agree. At one point the guy says 'if we didn't raise the rents, the park wouldn't be here. It would be appropriated for something else' or something to

Yeah I agree. At one point the guy says 'if we didn't raise the rents, the park wouldn't be here. It would be appropriated for something else' or something to that extent. And it's likely partially true. These guys are essentially following the market. Is it fucked up? Yes. But the solution is probably not in preventing rent changes longer-term, the solution is tackling poverty. This notion that someone makes $700 a month and is disabled is just insane to me as a western European. The state has a responsibility here to provide a minimum living when someone can't work, or provide a programme for disabled workers and supplement any income that's still missing. How can you put the poverty line at $21k and provide income to a disabled person capping at $8.5k? Obviously there are some things that ought to be done specifically about these trailer parks. For example laws that cap the rent increase per year are quite common. Increasing rent by 100% for existing contracts is totally illegal for example here in the Netherlands. Capping it at inflation + 2-3% is a common solution. But that's a bandaid. Poverty at its core has to be tackled.