The most viewed article this past week is an in-depth article about how seniors and other fixed-income residents are increasingly getting priced out of one of the last accessible housing options….mobile home communities.

The authors, Farah Eltohamy and Mai Hoang, explore how a Port Orchard-based mobile home management company, Hurst & Son, has taken over 60 mobile home parks since 2017 and has since enacted major rent hikes and stopped covering park utilities and upkeep. The article also explores how residents are fighting back against the policy changes and rent increases.

To read the article, visit this link: Washington Mobile Home Communities Organize Against ‘Economic Eviction’.

This article by Crosscut, the Pacific Northwest’s independent, reader-supported, nonprofit news site, Crosscut strives to provide readers with the facts and analysis they need to intelligently participate in civic discourse, and to create a more just, equitable and sustainable society.