Mobile Homes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

It wasn't until recently that I've truly come to realize my parents were right when they said, " In this country, it's very expensive to be poor."

Is it just me or is John becoming more ruthless in his pieces? Like a man on a mission to expose all the shady dealings that conveniently don't make the news.

I feel like buying mobile home lots and gifting them back to the renters is now on the list of things I’d do if I had an exorbitant amount of money

I got out of a mobile home park just in time after the original owner died. It was donated to a church who sold it to investors. The lot rent has doubled, and people can't afford to move. Thank you, John Oliver for bringing this issue to people's attention. Unfortunately, the only people who can do anything about it don't care. To bad we can't get politicians who care about the people, because ordinary people can't buy politicians. Big business can.

"...but recently some of the biggest investors have moved into this industry..." whenever you hear this sentence, you know, that it has worsened for the people.

Something is affordable in the US? Rich people are here to solve. That. Problem!

I have been homeless, happens to orphans a lot. I am in a really good place in life now, mostly due to a handful of humans who truly just cared about me without expectations. This places me in a different peer group, surrounded by people who have never been hungry- judging others without context. “I have it, why don’t you?” -well, was it given to you? Did you start life with everything you needed and desired? Then don’t talk about what you don’t know. Thank you Mr. Oliver for shedding light on so many important issues that no one thinks about ❤️‍🔥 that skit was gold

Yep, we have a Clayton Home Distributor here in my hometown. In the last 5 years, prices have almost doubled, and the quality has dropped, significantly. It's truly sad, because mobile homes have been the only option for poor people, and some middle class folks, to have decent housing. I directly blame Buffett's greed, and indifference, to this trend.

All the worst parts of owning a home with the worst parts of renting a home

"And if you didn't relate to that joke, you haven't suffered a single day in your life." 😂😂 The things John Oliver makes you realize! 🙈

Funny - a student loan rep once told me to “just go out and get a better job” or “donate blood” as I tried to renegotiate my monthly payment 😒

Companies and corporations are ruining literally everything.

John Oliver can take any topic I’ve never cared about and make them extremely interesting.

While this topic seems random, kudos to John and his team for bringing to light a very real and tragic story that would never make it into any mainstream program.

the commodification of housing really took something that could actually serve as a great development strategy— small but still decently sized cheap to produce housing units that can be arranged to make dense walkable neighborhoods — and boldly asked the question: how can we turn this into a debt trap and make a ton of money on the suffering of others?

As someone who has just recently bought a manufactured home, I went in knowing every single pro and con there is. I went in knowing who owns the park, who made the trailer, how much is lot rent, how well is the park managed, and when and what to expect the unexpected. I also know that with housing prices the way they are, this was the last viable option for myself and my retired mother who works part-time and lives with me. I actually lived in the park I just bought my home in ~15 years ago, so it's still in OK conditions as it's not owned by one of the filthy money-hungry giants... yet. The atrocity that is capitalism can be summed up like this: it's too expensive to be born, too expensive to live, and too expensive to die.

Saddest moment was the elderly resident peering through her window and asking why the bloodsuckers were touring the park. And hearing her be lied to ("we're just here to learn about mobile homes!")

Every time I hear "until investors came in and bought it up" I immediately know where the story is going.

Never, ever, EVER own a home of any sort, without also owning the land it sits upon.

One of the worst parts about mobile homes is that nothing is standard so if you have to fix or replace anything it would costs a fortune to do so because they have to specially order EVERYTHING. For example, the space designated for the furnace and water heater is too small for regular sized furnaces and water heaters so you can't shop around for a deal or anything like that and are locked to more or less 1 model from 1 brand and it costs way more than regular sized stuff. In essence everything is miniaturized.