“And now this company has pretty much taken up all of the affordable housing that was left because mobile home parks were the affordable housing.” “It's pretty much gone between Hurricane Matthew and Hurricane Florence,” said Allen. The housing stock is depleted and as for affordable housing, “there is none,” says Allen. A look at real estate marketplace Zillow showed just five rentals in Lumberton, with another four listed on Craigslist. At one point, locals say, you could rent a whole house in the area, though any rental is pretty scarce these days. “So, some of them just left their mobile homes behind because it was not worth moving, they didn't have anywhere to move it to, was too old to move.”Īllen says for the prices Time Out is charging residents to rent just the lot under a trailer, you could previously have rented the trailer and land. “People just fled because they knew that there was very little safe, affordable housing available,” said Angela Allen, project director of the coalition. And hundreds of residents are struggling to adapt to the changes implemented by the company, according to the newly formed Robeson County Affordable Housing Coalition. Time Out Communities now owns mobile home parks containing roughly one thousand homes in North Carolina. The increase is prohibitive for many with limited or fixed income.
Long-time residents say the new owners have doubled rents for the land under their homes. WUNC Mobile homes in Turner Park, now owned by Florida-based Time Out Communities.
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