Category: Mobile homes
28 January, 2013 (09:58) | Configuration, Elderly, extended families, health care, Housing, Innovations, manufactured housing, Mobile homes, US News, Zoning | 1 comment
By:David A. Smith What do we live for? Pleasure, happiness, success, new experiences, friends, children, loved ones? Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care (about time) Old age, the silent thief, can imperceptibly steal each of these from us, and as all of us are reluctant [...]
22 August, 2012 (09:00) | Affordable Housing, Charities, Cities, Egypt, Euro, Foreclosure, Local issues, Mobile homes, Month in review, Municipal bankruptcy, Policy, Regulation, Theory, Zoning |
[Previous Months in Review available here: May 12, Apr 12, Mar 12, Feb 12, Jan 12] By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Unfortunately, not all houses house families, and housing that has too long been vacant of aspirant families or civilly-minded empty nesters can become a convenient shell for hermit [...]
21 August, 2012 (09:00) | Affordable Housing, Charities, Cities, Egypt, Euro, Foreclosure, Local issues, Mobile homes, Month in review, Municipal bankruptcy, Policy, Regulation, Theory, Zoning |
[Previous Months in Review available here: May 12, Apr 12, Mar 12, Feb 12, Jan 12] By:David A. Smith In June, we rediscovered that, as anyone knows who’s trolled Facebook or compared an executive’s bio or Web site photo with the reality, what we present is usually more appealing than what we actually [...]
28 June, 2012 (10:01) | Carver MA, Chapter 140, co-operatives, Homeownership, Innovations, Land use, Massachusetts, MEEs, Mobile homes, right-to-match, ROC USA, US News, Zoning |
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s post introduced Cranberry and Pine Tree Villages, adjacent mobile home park communities where the residents did not own the land beneath their feet, rendering them vulnerable both to rises in rent and also to having their land sold out from under them. 4 [...]
27 June, 2012 (10:20) | Carver MA, Chapter 140, co-operatives, Homeownership, Innovations, Land use, Massachusetts, MEEs, Mobile homes, right-to-match, ROC USA, US News, Zoning |
By:David A. Smith Susan Roovers and her daughter Natasha Whitford, 12, stand outside their mobile home at Pine Tree Village in South Carver, Thursday, June 14, 2012. It’s always a happy ending when long-lost soul mates are finally reunited – even when neither of the sundered pair is animate, as in this uplifting [...]