Manufactured Crisis: Losing the Nation’s Largest Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing

For decades, manufactured home communities offered a rare path to affordable homeownership—until investors saw an opportunity. Across the country, private-equity firms and real estate companies are snapping up mobile home parks, driving up rents and squeezing out long-time residents. In Colorado’s Hickory Village, Derald Ketels is fighting to keep the home he paid off years ago, now drowning in rent hikes and eviction threats. His story is one of many, as corporate landlords rebrand “affordable housing” while making it anything but.

Shelby King writing for Shelterforce, a non profit news site focused on affordable housing, has the full story. And it matters in Minot; we’ve seen this trend locally.