Editing Trailer park (section)

=== 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>