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EPISODE · Aug 6, 2025 · 28 MIN

in 'Not So Forever Home,' WUSF reporters explain how mobile home owners are being priced out by rising lot rents

from Florida Matters · host WUSF Public Media

People often own the manufactured home they live in, but rent the land it sits on. And the rent is going up. On this episode, you'll hear from people explaining how they’re struggling to keep pace with rising rent. Their stories are part of a special reporting project from WUSF called Not So Forever Home. The Pulitzer’s Center for local reporting supported it.You’ll also hear from WUSF reporters Octavio Jones and Gabriella Paul. Jones spent the last year talking with people in mobile home communities about their plight, and Paul explains how one more door to home ownership is being squeezed shut. 

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