Coming to Mobile Home Park Near You

[RambleTamble]

We talked about this in another thread, but 60-75% of homeless people are homeless because they can't afford housing -- not because they can't find a job. Many people working full time can't afford a place to live.

Maybe it's time the government started building low-income housing again like they did back in the '60s and '70s. Meh, who knows?

 

[Teacher Terry]

It’s happening to our mobile home parks in this part of the country too and some of them are really nice. People are free to move their mobile home, but the expense is enormous and many people can’t afford it and even if you can, where are you going to move it to since mobile home parks are getting bought out. Even if you found a place to move it to how long would that last before that one got bought out.

 

[Kadee]

Fairly close to where I live is a over 50’s lifestyle village , it’s a 7 min walk to a nice calm water beach ( well most of the time )



in a rural town / area , easy commentating distance to the city 1.5 hours drive away on a main highway

Now …..the homes at the over 50’s are on land….. that’s leased , the homes are all the same ….built onsite transportables…..constructed so they can be moved …if you are unhappy there you can take your home elsewhere ( part of contract )
So it’s sumilar to a mobile home …in a way …look the same as many permanents…. in caravan parks homes

This village was still in planning stages about 7 years ago , we attended to the launching / sales talk / what the whole village plans were about 2 years before it was started …..but of course COVID got in the way during the development of the land putting in the services / roads / septics systems .

Im not sure if it’s a year to year lease or a set time, and you must have the whole outside of the home repainted at the cost of $9 to $10.000 every 4 years ….

with the housing problems in Australia and the soaring cost of land prices , I’d fear putting $300.000 ++ into a transportable home on leased land ……much the same as caravan parks contracts ….i believe the rent for the land only …..in the over 50’s is about $200 a week for a single person $270 for a couple …thats a fair bit of money coming out of a fortnightly aged pension , you still have utility costs like electricity / water / and internet / phone
insurances

We are not looking at downsizing our home at this stage , however our federal government recently started a campaign trying to push us oldies out of our own homes to make room for family’s ….and migrants …
no way are we going to pushed out of our own 4 bedroom home ….till we are good and ready to down size

 

[RandomName]

This sounds similar to the old days when they used to kick tenants out of big buildings so they could turn it all into condos.

I'm kind of on the fence with things like rent control and other government involvement. Can be good or bad or both, it seems, lol.

Back in 2008 with the Wall Street collapse due to mortgage fraud, it all started (imo) when govt forced Wall Street to make home mortgage loans to people to whom WS would not normally want to make loans to.

As far as the predatory acquiring of huge numbers of homes by a single entity, I would feel OK with some sort of 'protections' offered by govt for Joe Average Renter.

As far as the migrant thing goes, govt is happy to pay 100% for food and rent for migrants they move into your town, with your taxes, without even asking you about it. (see Ireland, UK, Minneapolis, MN, etc) Not a good use of govt, imo.

 

[VaughanJB]

The housing market looks pretty scary from what I'm reading in your post. I'm so glad I paid my house off when my husband passed away. People have told me to sell it and get something smaller. I wish my house was not as big as it is, but I sure don't want to take a gamble with it. I'm staying put! I do feel bad for people losing their homes right under their feet. Some of them (not all) can't afford to move. There is section 8 housing, but from what I'm told, it takes years to get in them. Private investors (33% ) sure are not helping out the homeless population. Sounds like they're helping to contribute to it.

Since looking into this I have found that it's happening in the UK too.

It seems as though the paradigm is changing, and along with it the so called "American Dream". Due to high prices of real estate, and the fact that wages aren't keeping pace with inflation, the dream of home ownership is moving beyond a segment of the populace. So being a renter will become increasingly prevalent.