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Aimee Breaux, Iowa City Press-Citizen Published 5:20 p.m. CT May 28, 2019 | Updated 7:03 p.m. CT May 28, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren weighed in on a local dispute between residents of a North Liberty mobile home park and a new out-of-state landlord imposing rent hikes of up to 58%.
The presidential hopeful and Iowa Rep. Dave Loebsack, sent a letter to Havenpark Capital Tuesday. The company acquired Golfview Mobile Home Court in March. Upon hearing news of their rent increasing, residents formed an association to advocate against what they call price gouging.
Warren's letter cited reports of residents having to choose between basic necessities and abandoning their homes after investment firms, like Havenpark, have purchased manufactured housing communities, like the one in North Liberty.
It was one of several notes on Congress of the United States letterhead sent to various investment firms who own mobile homes across the nation. The senator posed the same list of questions, including what was the rationale for those rent increases? and a derivative of how many manufactured homes have been abandoned since Havenpark Capital took over the community?
https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2019/05/28/sen-elizabeth-warren-intervenes-north-liberty-mobile-home-dispute/1257710001/
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bullwinkle428
(20,626 posts)park is. I'm also aware of how lots of these parks become acquisitions of new management groups, who go ahead and raise rents by ridiculous amounts. These places are the last vestiges of "affordable housing" outside of urban areas, and "affordability" is essential to so many working people.
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BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
rpannier
(24,304 posts)Not that park, but about similar parks
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LiberalFighter
(50,477 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Bettie
(15,997 posts)from out of state. Deeper pockets.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided