Editing Trailer park (section)

== By country ==
[[File:Uptown25Jan06FEMAtrailerPark1.jpg|300px|right|thumb|[[New Orleans]] in 2006 after [[Hurricane Katrina]]: A park in an unflooded part of town became the site of a [[Federal Emergency Management Agency|FEMA]] trailer park for people whose homes were damaged or destroyed.]]

=== In the United States ===
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[[File:Mobile home park.jpg|thumb|Mobile home park in [[La Crosse County, Wisconsin]]]]
The negative perception of trailer parks was not improved by the creation of emergency trailer parks by the [[Federal Emergency Management Agency]] (FEMA) for the displaced victims of [[Hurricane Katrina]], the quality and temporary nature of which was disputed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/us/nationalspecial/12exile.html|title=Road to New Life After Katrina Is Closed to Many|first=Shaila|last=Dewan|date=July 12, 2007|website=[[The New York Times]]|language=en-US|access-date=February 18, 2021}}</ref>

Many [[stereotype]]s have developed about residents in trailer parks, which are similar to stereotypes of the poor. The term ''[[trailer trash]]'' is often used in the same vein as the derogatory American terms ''[[white trash]]'' and ''[[ghetto]]''.<ref>{{cite book | title=Class and News | publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] | year=2004 | isbn=978-0-7425-2713-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=edtUWDk4FWcC&pg=PA213 | access-date=January 4, 2020 | pages=213–214}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timeline.com/history-trailer-part-mobile-home-poverty-74bb8a7c44be|title=Downwardly mobile: how trailer living became an inescapable marker of class|first=Nina Renata|last=Aaron|date=March 13, 2018|website=Timeline|language=en-US|access-date=February 18, 2021}}</ref> Though trailer parks appear throughout the United States, they are often associated with the [[Deep South]] and rural areas. In [[Dover-Foxcroft, Maine]], the Town Select Board debated the implementation of a [[Moratorium (law)|moratorium]] preventing mobile or manufactured homes from being built or installed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dover-foxcroft.org/vertical/sites/%7B5CE9D4A3-120C-4C7F-A834-14EE9E08F87B%7D/uploads/DF_SB_MIN_041122_(1).pdf |title=Municipal Building Meeting Room Minutes |date=April 11, 2012 |work=Select Board |publisher=Town of Dover-Foxcroft}}</ref> Trailer parks became viewed as a valuable asset in the late 2010s. During that decade, [[Real estate investment trust|REITs]], private equity funds, and middle-class people looking to escape the corporate world bought them up from small mom-and-pop owners.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Particle or Wave: On Esther Sullivan's "Manufactured Insecurity"|url=https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/home/esther-sullivan-manufactured-insecurity-review|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Cleveland Review of Books|language=en-US}}</ref>

More recently referred to in the U.S. as "mobile home parks" or "[[manufactured housing]] communities", the stereotypes are often just that.<ref name="ft"/> [[Retirement communities]] exist in many locales that permit mobile home parks as "55+ parks" in keeping with the [[Housing for Older Persons Act]] (HOPA). Generally, at least one homeowner in these communities must be age 55 or over, and those under age 18 are rarely permitted to live there. These can be [[gated community|gated communities]] with amenities, such as [[swimming pool]]s, [[community center|clubhouse]]s and onsite maintenance. Homes are often permanently installed on foundations. But residents may not own the land their homes occupy.

====Corporate investment====
Mobile home parks in the U.S. have become an attractive investment for financial firms such as [[The Carlyle Group|Carlyle Group]], [[Apollo Global Management]] and [[TPG Capital]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-billion-dollar-empire-made-of-mobile-homes/2019/02/14/ac687342-2b0b-11e9-b2fc-721718903bfc_story.html|title=A billion-dollar empire made of mobile homes|last=Whoriskey|first=Peter|date=February 14, 2019|newspaper=[[Washington Post]]|access-date=February 14, 2019}}</ref><ref name="ft"/><ref name="theguardian"/> In the early 2020s, an individual mobile home park can be sold in the tens of millions of dollars.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/real-estate/catherine-reagor/2020/06/02/big-investor-carlyle-pays-230-million-four-older-mesa-mobile-home-parks/3126951001/ |title=Big investor Carlyle pays $230M for four older Mesa mobile home parks |first=Catherine |last=Reager |date=2020-06-02 |work=[[The Arizona Republic]]}}</ref> Over 100,000 US mobile home sites were estimated to be owned by large firms in 2019.<ref name=":0" /> One firm, [[Stockbridge Capital Group]], owner of about 200 mobile-home parks throughout the US, "saw a return on investment of more than 30 percent between late 2016 and the end of 2017."<ref name=":0" /> The company's expansion into this market was facilitated by $1.3 billion in financing from [[Fannie Mae]], which has called mobile homes "inherently affordable."<ref name=":0" /> Profitability for the firms owning the parks has in some cases been tied to rent increases, and has not necessarily translated into good maintenance of the mobile homes.<ref name=":0" /> Efforts are being mounted to allow trailer park residents a chance to buy their own trailer park and thus own the land they live on; for instance, in Colorado, trailer park owners must give residents 90 days' notice before selling.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fourpointspress.com/2022/03/21/trailer-park-residents-hope-to-buy-the-land-beneath-them/|title=Trailer Park Residents Hope to Buy the Land Beneath Them|last=Waddell|first=Benjamin|date=March 21, 2022|website=Four Points Press|access-date=July 28, 2022}}</ref> In San Antonio, Texas, residents of the Mission Trails Mobile Home Community negotiated with developer White-Conlee who would be contracted to build [[Condominium|luxury condominiums]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/communities/southside/article/Last-families-moving-out-of-Mission-Reach-trailer-6062044.php |title=Last families moving out of Mission Reach trailer park |first=Jeremy T. |last=Gerlach |date=Feb 4, 2015 |work=[[San Antonio Express-News]]}}</ref>

=== Outside the United States ===
[[File:Camping Rolandsduin in Wijk aan Zee onder de rook van de Hoogovens, Bestanddeelnr 934-2933.jpg|thumb|Trailer park at an industrial area in [[Wijk aan Zee]], the [[Netherlands]], in 1988]]
==== Disputed trailer parks====
While the majority of trailer parks are used as permanent residences, and are paid for in the usual way by residents, a minority are used by nomadic people who in some cases may be occupying them illegally.

In Britain and Ireland, the term [[halting site]] is sometimes used for some trailer parks. The biggest difference in Europe is the presence of unauthorised halting sites (or trailer parks). This stems from the practice of traditionally itinerant ethnic groups, such as the [[Romani people|Romani]] and [[Irish Travellers]], to periodically during the year set up a transient community. From the late 1970s onward there was also a growth in [[New Age travelers]] culture; these groups espoused alternative lifestyles combined with a Do-It-Yourself punk ethic. The latter were a commonplace phenomenon in Germany,<ref>{{cite book | title=Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures | publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] | year=1997 | isbn=978-0-4151-4920-4| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rizRuQEACAAJ | access-date=February 18, 2021 | pages=289}}</ref> giving rise to expressions such as ''Wagenburg'', ''Wagendorf'', and ''Bauwagenplatz'' ("[[wagon fort]]", "trailer village" and "construction trailer site" respectively).

Either rejected from or refusing to seek entrance in municipally authorised halting sites, groups of families practising a nomadic lifestyle would trespass in order to camp on land belonging to local communities. These illegal encampments are often resented by local people, owing to their lack of sewage and waste disposal capacity, and the fact that such encampments are often difficult to remove under human rights legislation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.localsolicitors.com/conveyancing-and-property-guides/law-on-gypsies-travellers-and-unauthorised-encampments|title=Law on Gypsies, Travellers and Unauthorised Encampments|website=Local Solicitors|language=en-GB|access-date=July 7, 2024}}</ref> The use of land without permission is also illegal, which leads to such groups being moved on by the police or councils.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30954709.html|title=Traveller couples given 24 hours to move away from vicinity of illegal halting site|first=Aodhan|last=O’Faolain|date=October 3, 2019|website=[[Irish Examiner]]|language=en-US|access-date=February 18, 2021}}</ref>

====Authorised caravan parks====
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In Germany, the Netherlands and some other European countries, local law allows for normal camping at [[RV park]]s for a short time and seasonal camping for holidaymakers, and also long-time camping (for years) with hardly movable travel trailers. Sometimes these inhabitants also cultivate a [[Allotment (gardening)#United Kingdom|garden]]. Some cities allow a long-time camping lot to be the regular address registered with the authorities; others do not. Many of mobile home plots are offered by [[RV park]]s that allow for all sorts of camping and offer extra plots for mobile homes (static caravans).The cost for such a plot tends to be between €400  and €1.500  a year, depending on the location and facilities.

In France, living in a trailer or mobile home for more than three months is prohibited by law, even if the resident owns the land; however, building requirements and permissions for self building of recreational solid (static) country cottages are more relaxed in France if one stays within a certain amount of square meters.{{Citation needed|date=April 2014}}

In the United Kingdom, "trailers" are commonly known as static caravans, and are generally used for one of two purposes:  firstly as holiday homes, designed for short-term living; and secondly as retirement homes for the elderly, designed for long-term occupancy. Both types of trailers usually enjoy good amenities and are surrounded by highly manicured gardens.{{Citation needed|date=April 2014}}

In [[Australia]], there is generally no differentiation between a trailer park and an [[RV park]]. The term "caravan park" is used to refer to both.