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WBUR: BIG INVESTORS ARE BUYING MOBILE HOME PARKS – AND UPENDING THE LIVES OF RESIDENTS

Posted by Devenie Scott December 14, 2022

The 84-year-old planned to spend the rest of his days at Lee’s Trailer Park. But last year, the park was sold to Parkway Homes, which is managed by the Boston investment firm Helge Capital. And the company soon started asking people to leave and demolishing their homes to make way for new housing.

“The whole place is gone,” Piazza said, sitting in his mobile home, one of the few still left at the park. “You see it? I’m all alone.”

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