Mobile Homes Are So Expensive Now, Hurricane Victims Can't Afford Them

[DEAD7]

Hurricane victims emerging from ravaged trailer parks are discovering that the U.S. mobile-home market has left them behind. In Florida and Texas, dealerships are swarmed by buyers looking to rebuild their lives after hurricanes Harvey and Irma, but many leave disappointed. The industry, led by Warren Buffett's Clayton Homes, is peddling such pricey interior-designer touches as breakfast bars and his-and-her bathroom sinks. These extras, plus manufacturers' increased costs for labor and materials, have pushed average prices for new double-wides up more than 20 percent in five years, putting them out of reach for many of the newly homeless.


Mobile Homes Are So Expensive Now, Hurricane Victims Can’t Afford To Replace Theirs

 

[Strapped]

Greed

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Greed

Bootstraps

 

[Strapped]

Capitolism

 

[hashmander]

i hate to stereotype because maybe some people like them, but i think the reason people are in mobile homes is that's all they can afford and you're adding all these amenities that these folks can't afford. they just want something that'll keep them dry and warm. save that shyt for the RV market.

 

[OfTheCross]

Eh. Sounds like bullshyt. You're telling me there still aren't any every level mobile homes?

 

[Mr swag]

this homes are for the poor, how you price them out



people with money are NOT going to buy these homes

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

this homes are for the poor, how you price them out



people with money are NOT going to buy these homes

The homes for cacs lmaoo

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

When I used to read St0rmfr0ntttt, someone said trailer parks were white refugee camps, because the blacks and latinos take all the low income housing.

Dead serious

 

[Jimi Swagger]

There are manufactured homes on ebay for under 10K.

When I used to read St0rmfr0ntttt, someone said trailer parks were white refugee camps, because the blacks and latinos take all the low income housing.

Dead serious

They essentially are for those who missed the FHA era.
http://www.businessinsider.com/racist-housing-policies-supercharged-us-wealth-gap-2017-11

 

[Mook]

Eh. Sounds like bullshyt. You're telling me there still aren't any every level mobile homes?

They don't even make entry level apartments anymore.

 

[OfTheCross]

They don't even make entry level apartments anymore.

Efficiencies are the new entry level apartment

 

[eastside313]

this homes are for the poor, how you price them out



people with money are NOT going to buy these homes

Trailers are not only for poor people. In the south lots of people buy them