Mobile Home Rents Increasing...for the home & the property.

 

Census Bureau data shows Alabama near the top in a list of manufactured home locations.

Washington Post story this morning:

“You have a captive audience in mobile home parks,” said Kate MacTavish, an associate professor at Oregon State University whose research focuses on affordable housing and trailer parks. “They may own their homes, but they can’t just pick up and move.”

In interviews with a dozen mobile home residents around the country, all said their rents had risen this year. Most reported increases of 10 to 25 percent, although some said monthly payments had doubled or tripled.