There’s nothing new about this, MH parks have long been seen as desirable cashflow investments under the right conditions (of which there are several, even many).
I wish someone would buy the one near us on East Baseline in Phoenix South Mountain and jack up the rents, it seems to be a source of crime and troublemakers.
Mobile Home Parks tend to get a bad rap but many of them are actually decent places for older folks to live or younger folks just starting out. There are some bad ones and you can tell just by driving through the place. The better ones will have clean and uncluttered yards with lots of gardens and people will have chairs and benches set up outside.
The problem is that for hundreds of years real estate was a local business.
Now it is New York money buying up rental property across the USA. That rent will flow to New York and not stay in the local economy.
The red states are becoming colonies of the coastal cities with every industry based in blue states being funded by the heartland.
And since the 2008 crash, hedge funds have been doing the same thing to as many single family homes as possible. Sometimes snatching up entire inventories of foreclosures from banks and other holding companies.
Thus, doing their best to turn as many folks as possible into renters.