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

This was recently featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [1] which also does a good job of covering this issue. [1] [VIDEO]

How much time do you have? The short version is that while there's not necessarily anything wrong with them in principle, in practice there's a pretty impressive amount of exploitation at nearly every level of the industry. It more closely resembles the dynamics of car sales and financing than it does a downmarket version of conventional real estate. [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [VIDEO] (~16-minute Last Week Tonight segment)

Wikipedia has an article on manufactured housing, including a picutre and description: [LINK] It seems to have a specific meaning, and you might expect something different when thinking about "mobile homes" or "prefab houses" in your region. (e.g., I think of something different for prefabs in germany) There also was an episode on mobile homes of last week tonight which i found interesting back in the day: [VIDEO] They often have to rent the land they are on and get stuck there, as they can't transport the houses off.

John Oliver, 6 years ago: [VIDEO] I guess PE firms have realized that putting humans into debt that they have to work endlessly to repay is very profitable.