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Mobile Homes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight · 10.4M views · 2019-04-08 · 15:39

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Overview

A Last Week Tonight segment on mobile homes, showing how large investment companies are making this affordable housing option less affordable. It covers residents who rent land and cannot move their homes.

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HN commenters point to it as good, accessible coverage of mobile-home park exploitation by private equity.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2019–2025

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Labor, work & inequalityMedia, journalism & propagandaInvesting & personal finance
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0xcde4c3db · 2024-01 · Recommendation

How much time do you have? The short version is that while there's not necessarily anything wrong with them in principle, in practice there's a pretty impressive amount of exploitation at nearly every level of the industry. It more closely resembles the dynamics of car sales and financing than it does a downmarket version of conventional real estate. [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [VIDEO] (~16-minute Last Week Tonight segment)

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jamestanderson · 2019-05 · Recommendation

This was recently featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [1] which also does a good job of covering this issue. [1] [VIDEO]

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netsharc · 2025-11 · Reference

John Oliver, 6 years ago: [VIDEO] I guess PE firms have realized that putting humans into debt that they have to work endlessly to repay is very profitable.

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