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Mobile home parks vanish, displacing communities into homelessness

What happens when the last rung of the housing ladder is sawed off? In Miami-Dade County, the disappearance of mobile home ...
WLRN

How Florida's manufactured home parks are growing unaffordable

Judy Schofield chokes back tears thinking about the memories she made here with her late husband. From her living room couch, where she sits now, she admires the lighthouses they collected over the ...

Trailer parks are disappearing — and leaving Americans homeless

Hundreds of low-income, working families in a Miami suburb lost their home to a new affordable housing development project.
WLRN

'We lie to ourselves about progress': Exhibit laments the loss of South Florida's trailer parks

Over the last decade, mobile home parks — or trailer parks, as they are commonly known — have become something of a rarity in South Florida. As the price of land has creeped up to unprecedented ...
News4Jax

Home Sick: Some Florida mobile home residents are paying the price of lower-cost living with their health, study finds

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – For many, mobile home parks are one of the last options for stable, lower-cost living. But a new public health report by Human Impact Partners and Manufactured Housing Action ...
WCTV

Manufactured home owners get more rights under new Florida law

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - People living in manufactured homes across Florida will soon have a new tool to fight rising rent. It’s part of a new law taking effect next ...
Grist

For Floridians in mobile homes, Hurricane Helene was a disaster waiting to happen

Chelsy Robison huddled in an empty building on the Paradise Park mobile home campground in Perry, Florida, on the evening of September 26, listening as 140 miles-per-hour winds tore through the ...