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TAMPA, Fla. — Natasha Velasco juggles raising her family with small children and the tasks involved in maintaining her mobile home.
“This is my husband’s work clothes,” she said. “I wash and dry regularly because I have a big family.”
Velasco says the cost of doing so has gone up since the park’s owner now adds water to their bill.
“It costs a lot to wash clothes and take showers,” she said.
She says they also had three rent hikes for their lot since new management took over.
“At first, it was at $795," Velasco said. "Then they bumped it to $843 within a few months, and then in August, they bumped it up again."
Velasco said her family...
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Information from the NMHA indicates that changing public policy to incentivize park owners to sell their property to mobile homeowners, HUD properties and other nonprofits would create more housing security.
Wow, looks like MHAction has a new non-profit competitor called the “NMHA” (which stands for the “National Manufactured Homeowners Association). They support the same woke “free rent” movement and have pledged to annoy park owners and respectable bureaucrats throughout the country. Can’t wait to see this turf war escalate. I’m picturing the rumble from Will Farrell’s “Anchorman”.