“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.
Maybe. I don’t think so though. This piece is part of a larger general argument that many of the problems that liberals claim can only be solved by more government spending and regulation are in fact caused in large part by government spending and regulation, and could in fact be greatly ameliorated by less of it. In this case, if government stopped preventing the establishment of trailer parks and other forms of market-provided housing for the poor, they could simultaneously improve the housing prospects for poor people as well as spend less government money supposedly providing it. That doesn’t sound like globalism to me; it sounds like freedom.
When people want to live where living is expensive (because so many people want to live there), conservatism/capitalism dictates that you let property owners decide how to address the potential value: either raise rent (and perhaps improve units to attract & justify the money), or divide & modify the property so more people are willing to pay to use it - which may mean making tiny apartments or manufactured homes.
You may not like it, but - not being the property owner nor the renter/buyer - it’s none of your d@mn business. And that’s the point.
Sometimes consequences of Right & Left philosophies intersect. That doesn’t mean the point of intersection is wrong. The real question, per your concern, is whether people will be punished for instead opting to MOVE somewhere where they can get bigger properties for lower costs.