Most people who own houses own the land underneath them. When they want to move, they sell the house and the land. This is not the case with owners of mobile homes. They live a hybrid existence: They ...
About two dozen former FCI Dublin employees got eviction notices to leave their mobile homes by Labor Day. FCI Dublin is closed and the Bureau of Prisons owns the land the mobile home parks are on.
Mobile home parks provide a lot of affordable housing, but affordability can disappear when parks are sold. New efforts are trying to help park residents buy the land under their homes. Mobile home ...
This is the second story in a two-part series about mobile homes in Massachusetts. Read the first part here. Michael Baptiste Sr. still works a couple of days a week for a gas company. The 72-year-old ...