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When private equity firms buy mobile home parks, rent increases leave residents with few affordable options in rural areas
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Private equity acquisitions of mobile home parks in rural America are driving significant rent increases for the 20 million residents who live in manufactured homes and rent the land beneath them, leaving them with limited affordable housing alternatives.
When private equity firms buy mobile home parks, rent increases leave residents with few affordable options in rural areas
Although they're often called 'mobile,' it's hard and costly to relocate manufactured homes. Julia Robertson/Photodisc via Getty Images
Roughly 20 million Americans live in manufactured houses, which are homes made in factories.
Although they’re often called mobile homes or trailers, that’s really a misnomer because their owners can’t easily relocate them. Typically, the people who own them rent the land underneath the houses from the owners of manufactured home parks. Sometimes, an owner will r
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