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STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. – Residents from manufactured home communities across the region came together on Sunday for a meeting about climbing costs and deteriorating living conditions.
The meeting follows Local 4 reporter Kyla Russell’s series of reports spotlighting some issues impacting the neighborhoods.
Most recently, Local 4 covered an issue facing the Rudgate Manor neighborhood in Sterling Heights. The park has seen a near 85% increase in lot rent since the current owners took over, according to resident records.
When an estimated 20 million people live in mobile home parks across the nation, residents say the rising prices are...
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“The park has seen a near 85% increase in lot rent since the current owners took over, according to resident records”
Don’t you love how these articles always follow the same path of only talking about rent increases by percent and never by dollar amount? Let’s look at some similar examples:
So when a mobile home park has a ridiculously low lot rent, like $200 per month, and you raise it by 85%, that’s an increase of only $170 over the span of a decade or so. During that same period, single family homes have gone up $200,000 on average and apartments have gone up $1,000 per month.
Never trust any article that refuses to talk dollars but only percentages. They do that because cheap rents can only look expensive when you change the rules of the game to percentages over actual dollar values. It’s the standard conversion rate of woke journalists.