Seniors living in tent encampment desperate for safe housing

Divorces themselves aren't particularly expensive, but long, contentious squabbles over assets, child and dog, etc., can really ratchet up the legal bills.

p.s. Not sure why someone with "timed out" college degrees could earn only $750/month in entry-level work that didn't even require a GED. Unless there were minor children, I also don't understand a ten year employment gap from ages 48-58.
 

Mobile home parks no longer the cheap alternative it used to be.

Was looking a mobile home in a trailer park/community going early in virus times. It was an old fixer for $20K and probably should've jumped on it then. Then a property management company either bought the park or ran it for the owner. But they raised the price of the unfixed trailer to 30K and even with $750 lot rent the management said be prepared to pay $1400 a month with all fees, taxes, utilities etc and that lot will go up every year without question.

There's one park a county has move in special lot fees at $500 a month for lot rent. But they treat it like a storage unit and by the end of the first year rent will be upwards of $800 a month with 3 raises the first year. Along with at least one rent increase a year after that.

Since these parks have a lot of land they are enticing to real estate developers. Sometimes I think they keep the rents high to chase people out and not have to worry about evictions when to make it easier when sell or build on that land.
 
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WhatInThe said:
Mobile home parks no longer the cheap alternative it used to be.

Was looking a mobile home in a trailer park/community going early in virus times. It was an old fixer for $20K and probably should've jumped on it then. Then a property management company either bought the park or ran it for the owner. But they raised the price of the unfixed trailer to 30K and even with $750 lot rent the management said be prepared to pay $1400 a month with all fees, taxes, utilities etc and that lot will go up every year without question.

There's one park a county has move in special lot fees at $500 a month for lot rent. But they treat it like a storage unit and by the end of the first year rent will be upwards of $800 a month with 3 raises the first year. Along with at least one rent increase a year after that.

Since these parks have a lot of land they are enticing to real estate developers. Sometimes I think they keep the rents high to chase people out and not have to worry about evictions when to make it easier when sell or build on that land.
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If the government won't do anything about the housing crisis, maybe people need to take matters into their own hands.
 

Rakaia said:
I recently saw a couple of graphs comparing the concentration of wealth upwards. One was pre-revolution France, the other 21st century USA, conjecture as you wish.
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This was posted in September '24, again just recently I saw another writing comparing USA today to pre-revolutionary France.
In view it's conceivable that the USA could be in for some very troubled times in the not too distant future. One flashpoint is all it would take to unleash some traumatic events.
 
We are so lucky! We had nothing left once we got the kids raised and out of the house. Sold the house, didn't make much on that but enough to get a down payment on another place. One thing led to another and sold that place for about what we paid for it. Then we moved farther north again in BC.There were ups and downs for a while, then we finally bought a very nice mobile home in a senior park. For the first time we were able to keep me off stairs (as the doctor had told me 40 or so years before). We paid it off a few years ago, the car was paid off before that. So for the first time in our lives our only debts are utilities , and food. I feel so lucky!!!!!
 
StarSong said:
Divorces themselves aren't particularly expensive, but long, contentious squabbles over assets, child and dog, etc., can really ratchet up the legal bills.

p.s. Not sure why someone with "timed out" college degrees could earn only $750/month in entry-level work that didn't even require a GED. Unless there were minor children, I also don't understand a ten year employment gap from ages 48-58.
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Health issue, ended up disabled.
 
VaughanJB said:
Let me get in early.

"Well, they should have saved some money."
"Well, why didn't they buy their own homes?"
"Well, why don't they move to somewhere they can afford!"
"Yet we give bazillions to migrants!"
"Probably addicted to drugs."
"Probably alcoholics."
"I live in this city, and this story isn't true."
"I see these people all the time, they're a real eyesore."
"Well, shouldn't have voted for [insert name here]"
"Well, that's what you get with liberal policies."
"More wasted tax dollars."

That just about covers it. :D
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No one plans to become homeless. Situations often arise suddenly no matter how much people save or plan their life out. A lot of people are one emergency away from homeless. I suddenly became homeless in my 50s and it is terrible. I had to really claw my way back.
 
From today's evening news, and Yahoo Finance

There was a record 18% rise in homelessness in the U.S. in the last year, driven by factors like unaffordable housing, high inflation, systemic racism, natural disasters and rising immigration, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said on Friday.

A total of 771,480 people - or about 23 of every 10,000 people in the U.S. - experienced homelessness in an emergency shelter, safe haven, transitional housing program, or in unsheltered locations, according to data released on Friday.
 
I read an article about a guy in Toronto, who has built three little pods for homeless people, that can actually be pulled by an electric bike. They are well built, have a bed, a window, locking door, running water and power and are equipped with both a smoke detector and a CO2 detector. So far, including the safety stuff seems to have kept the city from banning them. Far better than a tent!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-tiny-mobile-homes-1.7419805
 

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