I think the point of the article is that trailer parks are a free market solution to providing homes for lower income people that actually works a lot better than government provided low income housing. If it were allowed in more places we’d go a lot further toward combatting homelessness etc than anything else that government could do.
Yes, that was the main point of the article. Also that other forms of less expensive housing have been basically outlawed.
“I think the point of the article is that trailer parks are a free market solution to providing homes for lower income people that actually works a lot better than government provided low income housing. If it were allowed in more places we’d go a lot further toward combatting homelessness etc than anything else that government could do.”
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Not buying it. These guys are simply trying to put a Happy Face on Globalism and its love of cramming the populace into dense urban centers.
The guy at the top of the website is the founder of the “micro apartment” movement. This seems like a way to squeeze bucks out of globalism. See also The Aspen Institute ties.
No thank you.
Amazing how many missed the point, huh?
Manufactured homes give the working class of this country (what’s left of it anyway) the ability to live free and be independent. And that’s a great thing!
As a Southern, Christian rural white man, I know people are free to insult and belittle me but guess what? I don’t need anyone to “protect” me, I don’t need a safe place, and go on, make fun of rednecks all day long and I’ll probably laugh if they’re funny!
My house is a solid stick built house. No basement, but we don’t worry about the frost line as there isn’t one. No need to worry about the cellar flooding, either.
I have a lot of friends with trailers and double-wides and some are really nice, and others are just old and ugly, but they keep ‘em out of the rain and for them they’re all home sweet home.
Agreed. Someone buys a good chunk of property, then divides it up enough at prices his target customers can afford. “Trailers” make it easy to drop a house on the spot; they can be as cheap or luxurious as you like.
The article may discuss what is colloquially dubbed “trailer parks” with all the visual “white trash” baggage it entails. There are, in fact, other variations of the same which are much nicer: many large recreational campgrounds have permanent occupants with quaint & small “trailer” homes, various “tiny house communities” are popping up.
Get the government out of the way, and let capitalism solve the problem by letting people buy property, divide it up, and present solutions that poor people _want_ and _can_ afford. In comparison: Walmart has helped a whole lotta poor people by making necessities (and luxuries) affordable where government would have given little more than soviet-style queues for crud.