Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Private equity's greed is squeezing mobile home residents living off of Social Security.
Residents have had to skip their medication to deal with 125% rent increases.
But a bill from Rep. Maxwell Frost could let residents buy their parks before Wall Street swoops in.
Learn more about how residents of manufactured housing communities are organizing to protect some of the last affordable housing in the country, and what you can do to help and fight back by visiting mhaction.org
Producer: Dan Lieberman
Editor: Kenneth Kerr
Videographers:
Austin Burke
Spencer Molenda
Tim Ouillette
Jack Davis
Video Production Manager: Isabel Atalaya
Video Production Coordinator: Jodi Clemens
Video Production Fellow: Astrid Dong
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Private equity's greed is squeezing mobile home residents living off of Social Security.
Residents have had to skip their medication to deal with 125% rent increases.
But a bill from Rep. Maxwell Frost could let residents buy their parks before Wall Street swoops in.
Learn more about how residents of manufactured housing communities are organizing to protect some of the last affordable housing in the country, and what you can do to help and fight back by visiting mhaction.org
Producer: Dan Lieberman
Editor: Kenneth Kerr
Videographers:
Austin Burke
Spencer Molenda
Tim Ouillette
Jack Davis
Video Production Manager: Isabel Atalaya
Video Production Coordinator: Jodi Clemens
Video Production Fellow: Astrid Dong
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More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, nonprofit newsroom whose mission is to build power for working people. Here’s what that means: We report on the real struggles and challenges of the working class from a working-class perspective. We attempt to connect those problems to potential solutions. We report on the abuses and wrongdoing of corporate power. And we seek to hold accountable the ultra-rich who have too much power over America’s political and economic systems.
To support our independent journalism, subscribe, donate, and follow our other pages through the links below:
- Help fund our reporting: secure.actblue.com/donate/mpu-splash
- Substack: substack.perfectunion.us
- TikTok: tiktok.com/@moreperfectunion
- Twitter: twitter.com/MorePerfectUS
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/moreperfectunion.bsky.social
- Facebook: facebook.com/MorePerfectUS
- Instagram: instagram.com/perfectunion
- Threads: threads.net/@perfectunion
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