Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "America’s Last Affordable Housing Is Under Threat" video.

The other problem with mobile homes and trailer parks is a lot of them only allow people to stay for a set amount of time, like 5 years and then they ultimately have to rebuild the trailer home. Long term living in a trailer park is a recipe for disaster in itself, that's a place to go stay a while and catch your breath, not hunker down and start popping out kids out that you can't afford. Of course nobody winds up in a trailer home as a result of GOOD decisions they made.
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@olmed4405 Is that what your parents told you? Nobody lives in a trailer when they could live in a house instead. Nobody. Not even the "nicer" ones.
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I wouldn't do that as an elderly person OR a female. That's something hipster kids do when they're in their 20's and 30's but I guarantee you'll get sick of it very, very fast. It looks fun and adventurous and "kewl" on YouTube but you're only seeing the good parts, not the bad. If you do decide to go this route, get a gun. You're gonna need it.
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@lindalewis8503 I can see living out of an RV but not a van. Even the most spacious van setup I've seen still looks claustrophobic to me and then there's the imminent thread of flash flooding and tornadoes, or even not-so-imminent threats like hurricanes. Houses have a better chance of surviving all of those natural events. Trailers and vans and even RV's are pretty well going to get totaled/destroyed in really bad weather.
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@SignedOff402 Be safe whatever you do and never underestimate mother nature. Every storm is different especially when it comes to hurricanes, last storm I endured was Ida and the total blackout of New Orleans after the hurricane winds were so severe it knocked down an electrical tower that wasn't even knocked down during KATRINA. I would try to find a parking garage large enough to accomodate it but if you can't, do get a room. I am just afraid it won't be able to survive hurricane force winds even though it is a large, heavy vehicle like that.
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@Tim85-y2q They're still trailer homes though. They're still most vulnerable to natural disasters, even mild natural disasters like flash flooding all the way up to tornadoes and hurricanes. I don't care how many modern comfort modifications they make to these residences to help differentiate them from normal homes. At the end of the day, they're still mobile homes. They're good, cheap options for temporary use, but you can't sit there with a straight face and tell me that owning a mobile home is synonymous with owning a brick and mortar home that sits on a proper foundation and is designed to last the test of time and not until you get through medical school or whatever your temporary hardships and challenges are that would land you in a mobile home to begin with. For a few years. They will never be on par with traditional homes, I don't care how many amenities and bells and whistles you throw on top of it to try to hide the fact that it is what it truly is.
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Honestly like if you live in a place even like that and let it get run down so much that it looks like a shanty shack, just be homeless. It's cheaper. I don't see anything wrong with the dude cleaning the place up for people who appreciate it. If people just wanna let it and themselves go, like honestly San Francisco is unbelievably homeless friendly in the same state. Go live there instead, for less money, and you can live as "free spirited" as you want with zero consequences instead. People act like they're paying more money for no benefits. Are you kidding me? He's making the entire place look nicer, he's hiring all these people to come do these jobs at no additional cost to the people living there whether they're on the way out or destined to stay, and hiring private security which they claim is for the workers benefit only but it's just as much for the people too if they could only allow themselves to see it that way. Seriously, don't like it? Go elsewhere. The ones complaining about altercations are most likely the ones who let their homes fall to ruin which affects everyone else negatively then they have the balls and audacity to say they were negatively effected by what literally are simply just improvements.
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@Hansen710 America is never going to be like Denmark in that way. Never. For good or for bad, it isn't going to happen. The idea that you not only get a stipend for doing nothing, but even a place to stay if you can't afford one yourself, is 100% not favorable with a good portion of the voter bloc. Liberals are about to get trounced in a few days for our midterm elections and that's because our MOST EXTREME liberals are trying to establish something just like that when everyone else is working for it and griping that they're paying for it, because honestly what you make sound "free" is coming out of someone's pocket. I don't even agree with conservatives for everything but I do think if you're a leech, you're a leech and you ultimately reap what you sow.
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@SignedOff402 Be safe... keep us posted on how things go.
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@wildfire9280 I mean, sure you can get lung cancer for instance if you didn't smoke. But guess what? You're more likely to get lung cancer if you smoke than if you don't. I am not saying that bad things won't happen to you if you make nothing but good decisions, I am just saying that it's much, much more likely to happen if you make more bad choices than good. And when it comes to living in a goddamn trailer, like listen the only worse living arrangement you can have is homelessness. And homeless people are homeless because of mental illness and bad choices or both. It is very, very easy to live your life without having to resort to live in a trailer, regardless of good choices made in life or bad. But no, nobody lives in a trailer because they're batting .1000 with good choices made in life. Nobody lives in a trailer by choice, for that matter. It's a dead end road for a reason.
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@Machiave11i The likelihood of having your land acquired by eminent domain is pretty low. It's pretty messed up though, the city or powers that be can take it from you just because it's in the way of something they want to build and they do compensate you for it but the amount they actually pay you is shamefully low and well below what it's actually worth. Something that should be illegal IMO.
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