Mobile Home Parked

Planet Money

NPR

Business, News

4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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We find out what happens when big investors spend billions of dollars buying mobile home parks and make them less affordable for the people who live there. Then we learn how the government helps them do it, with super low-cost loans that were meant to support affordable housing. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:03.8	Mary Hunt lives in a mobile home park in Swartz Creek, Michigan.
0:11.2	It's called South Valley Estates.
0:13.2	There are something like 120 mobile or manufactured homes here.
0:17.4	Some look like suburban houses.
0:19.7	Others are more like trailers up on foundations.
0:23.2	The lawns are mowed.
0:24.8	There are little gardens.
0:26.3	I don't think you stepped on it, but that's my pumpkin.
0:29.4	Mary loves animals.
0:31.0	Sassy.
0:32.0	There's Sassy, the little aging hound dog, and she's got like five cats.
0:36.6	She tends to take cats in when they need a haul.
0:38.9	Where? Hold on, Claire.
0:39.8	I'm coming, baby.
0:41.0	She's lived here a long time.
0:43.0	She took care of her parents in this house.
0:45.5	It's a double wide.
0:46.2	So there is a lot of room.
0:47.7	I've lived here almost 45 years.
0:49.7	Mary's 51.
0:51.1	She's a job driving elderly people to doctor's appointments.
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