This is part of a movement to convince people that the American Dream is dead, and to get them to accept ever lower standards of living. Now they’re pushing trailers, soon I imagine we’ll be treated to articles about the joys of tent cities and a “back to nature” (open latrines) lifestyle.
Biggest problem with mobile homes is their susceptibility to natural disasters.
But cant blame people for wanting their own place.
Maybe if there was a way to secure manufactured housing to a crawl space then allow some form of conveyable title for the dwelling while leaving the land in the name of the landlord.
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The latest push on HGTV is “Tiny Houses.”
Manufactured housing doesn’t have to be ugly, some of the newer modulars are nice-looking and difficult to distinguish from site-built, but the more modules there are, the higher the cost. Still less expensive than comparable though.
In my neck of the central FL woods, there are two types of trailer parks, those with retirees that are quite pleasant, and those with people not of retirement age, that are otherwise.
If the homeless were placed in trailer parks made for them, we’d save billions of dollars, as well as reclaim the title of “civilization.” You can have people face the street in case of a catastrophe, but you can’t do that and still claim civilized status - only Law of the Jungle.
It's a definite Social Justice Issue....
Don't get me wrong, I don't see any reason for a lot of the people I know to be struggling with a huge house payment rather than sitting on a few acres of their own land in a double wide or single wide, whatever suits their family size.
I just think it's interesting that as who controls the market changes the media starts slowly changing the popular perception of that product and the people who potentially constitute the target market. Especially after Clayton, which Berkshire owns, is being investigated for predatory financing practices.
Does this mean "trailer trash" will soon be on the PC list of unacceptable terms and phrases ? Keep your eye out, my guess is it will be on that list before long.
I had a job fresh outa college years ago repoing these things. Good money since I was getting overtime, they were overwhelmed with defaults.
Step on top of the ripples on the floor, that's where the boards holding up the flooring are, otherwise your foot is likely to go through the floor.
Also, when you slip in the shower, don't brace yourself against the wall, you're likely to fall through and end up in the parking lot nekkid. Finance company I was working for actually had to settle a lawsuit over that.
Don't keep anything valuable in one...that door pops open very easy.
Sophisticates in cities may mock trailer parks, but Drudge ran a link this past week about Phoenix embracing 40 foot conexes for housing.
I know Ben Franklin invented the “lightning rod”
But who invented the “tornado magnet”? ...AKA mobile homes
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Notice the governments don’t enforce building code restrictions on immigrants’ housing.
Cheap labor has to live somewhere.
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Not all trailers are built to the same standards. I lived in one in cold North New Mexico and found it was designed for South Texas.
The walls consisted of one sheet of aluminum, one thin sheet of fiberglass (no backing) one sheet of paneling inside. Froze my butt off that winter! Never again!
On the other hand, a trailer built to Colorado standards was warm and snug.
I’ve also lived in stick built houses that were just as cold as the Texas trailer house. Now I live in an old oak built house with blown in insulation that is so warm in winter it is nice!
We used to have a trailer manufacturer north of here. Their trailers were junk. While a trucker was pulling one down the road, the welds on the I beams broke and he pulled it in half.
We had a bad snow and ice storm come through and collapsed the building and put the manufacturer out of business. he never rebuilt and the ruins of his “business” are still there today.
Tornado magnets.
In some rural areas of Texas, if you don’t have any permanent structures on your land, you can get away with paying the agricultural property tax rate of a few dollars per acre per year instead of a tax based on the value of the property.
“most forms of low-income housing have been criminalized in nearly every major US city.”
This is an _incredibly_ under-addressed issue. The Left has made it ILLEGAL to be “functionally poor” (can live a sustaining lifestyle at sub-poverty-line levels). Never mind how quaint, high “quality of life”, or content the setting is, the Left will literally put you in jail for building and living in inexpensive housing which was the norm (if not luxurious) for most of “first world” human history.
Many on FR respond to such articles with “they’re trying to normalize bad living conditions! the Left wants us to live in third world huts!” etc. I disagree: the push for ever-higher minimum wages and rising welfare dependency is in part manipulated by demanding _higher_ standards of living, which in turn demand ever-growing confiscation of earned wealth.
If someone wants to, and can, live independently in low-income housing, let them. Buy a cheap lot and put up a yurt if you like.