Editing Trailer park (section)

====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>