
A Decent Home | With Raised Rents, They Rise Up
Clip: Season 11 Episode 3 | 1m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Zach Wahls talk about issues and solutions surrounding the m
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Zach Wahls (D-IA) meet with Candi Evans, a Golfview mobile home park resident in North Liberty, Iowa, to talk about the issues and solutions surrounding the mobile home park industry. Golfview had been purchased by an investment firm that raised the rents exponentially and the residents refused to sit idly by.
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A Decent Home | With Raised Rents, They Rise Up
Clip: Season 11 Episode 3 | 1m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Zach Wahls (D-IA) meet with Candi Evans, a Golfview mobile home park resident in North Liberty, Iowa, to talk about the issues and solutions surrounding the mobile home park industry. Golfview had been purchased by an investment firm that raised the rents exponentially and the residents refused to sit idly by.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[indistinct chatter] A week ago, Sunday, I was sitting at the front bench and he said, "Grandma, you look tired."
I said, "I'm just tired.
I just want to quit.
Quit."
[Elizabeth] Not gonna quit.
- No.
He said, "My grandma don't quit."
- Yeah.
[Elizabeth] And... your grandma's not alone.
- No.
- You got your neighbors.
- No, I got my neighbors.
- That's right.
And you've got people who are willing to get into this fight.
That's why Zach is here.
We're gonna do this.
- Yeah.
- So, currently, in the state of Iowa, you can be evicted without cause from a mobile home park, which is actually very common... - Uh-huh, uh-huh.
...in many states across the country.
So, we've heard Havenpark has been busy.
They've been buying more mobile home parks.
There's another company out of Colorado called Impact Communities that's bought several mobile home parks across the state, exact same model.
Buy it, jack up the rent.
And so we're hoping that we're going to be able to go back to the legislature in January.
Even some of our Republican friends are looking at this and saying, "Boy, that doesn't look fair."
Uh, and so, theoretically, I think it's possible we'll see some change.
But of course, um, it's not over 'til it's over.
- Yeah.
You know, people are gonna- Nobody can stay on the sidelines anymore.
This is really about people getting in the fight.
[Candi] And we're gonna win.
- Yeah.
[Zach] You know, mobile home parks could be a part of an effective, affordable housing solution so long as they're not being sold under false pretenses.
As long as we don't have out-of-state companies jackin' up the rent and making them no longer affordable.
And so long as we have the basic protections that are necessary for folks who, who live in these properties to call them home.
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