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Wall Street investors pricing Americans out of last bastion of affordable housing – Great Falls mobile home park an example

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In late 2019, Havenpark purchased The Highwoods Mobile Home Park in Great Falls, Montana. By then, Havenpark was becoming infamous among some mobile-home residents, who moved quickly to push back.

“I basically wrote to 50 legislators and agencies right off the bat and asked them to please help us since there are no laws in Montana to protect people who rent land,” said Cindy Newman, a Highwoods resident for 20 years. Still, her rent would gradually increase 58% to $450, she said. New tenants pay the full $450 rent.

 

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