Industry groups estimate that more than 20 million people live in some 43,000 mobile home parks across the United States. “We are in the deepest affordable housing crisis we’ve ever experienced,” said Joanna Carr, acting head of the Arizona Housing Coalition. “It’s going to be a big problem down the line.”Efforts under way to revitalize old mobile homes have limits. It aims to help park owners prepare vacant or abandoned lots for new mobile homes, and help mobile homeowners install new foundations and make their dwellings more habitable. Rundown parks can also be eyesores, depressing the worth of nearby properties even as the value of the land the mobile homes sit on has increased exponentially.

Source: thestar May 20, 2023 20:01 UTC