Do female fans belong in stadiums? Can mobile-home owners own the land?
1. United States
Co-ops are providing more housing security and climate resilience for mobile-home owners. Manufactured homes house over 22 million Americans and are one of the country’s largest sources of affordable housing. But with the rise in lot rents – what residents pay the landowner – people are increasingly banding together to buy their land in resident-owned cooperatives.
Manufactured-home residents began experiencing sharp rent increases about a decade ago when investment firms started buying mobile-home parks for their reliable income. But under collective ownership, residents have full control over community repairs and improvements, from solar panels to disaster preparedness. In south Texas, the predominantly Latino Pasadena Trails community
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