Mobile Homes

For decades the answer to inexpensive, safe housing for older retired Floridians was found in mobile home communities. Yet with Florida’s growth and an increasing and longer-living senior population, for many, that once sure answer is wrong.

The county allows for two, 90-day permits. That could be more than doubled under ideas floated by officials

Scott Simon speaks to journalist Julie Reynolds about hedge fund Alden Global Capital's purchase of several mobile home parks and its eviction of many of their low-income residents.

A mandatory evacuation is in effect for mobile and manufactured homes in Lee County due to Hurricane Irma. It didn't seem like anyone was sticking around…