The video documentary, produced by the Northwest Area Foundation, the Housing Preservation Project and Twin Cities Public Television, is about Minnesota, Iowa, Washington, Florida, Ohio, Vermont and virtually every state in our nation.
American Dream Under Fire: Mobile Home Park Residents Fight to Hold Ground examines the urgent issue of preserving manufactured home park communities in the face of skyrocketing land values and development pressures.
It follows the fight to save a manufactured home community in Bloomington, Minn.
It is a new production of the Northwest Area Foundation and Twin Cities Public Television in collaboration with Housing Preservation Project and All Parks Alliance for Change.
"Lack of affordable housing is very often a key factor in communities with persistent poverty," said Karl Stauber, president and CEO of the Northwest Area Foundation.
According to the Housing Preservation Project and All Parks Alliance for Change, there are over 900 mobile home parks --- or manufactured home communities --- in Minnesota, and about 55,000 communities nationwide that are home to roughly 10 million residents.
"It's a misnomer: mobile homes really aren't easily moved and most residents are long-term members of their communities," said Ann Norton, president of the Housing Preservation Project (HPP).
At HPP, we work with residents, owners, local officials and often banking institutions to develop and negotiate solutions that will allow residents to gain the stability they and their families need."
The organization uses a variety of innovative strategies, to provide technical assistance and services to local attorneys and tenant advocacy organizations, owners, housing funders, and policy makers.
HPP attorneys work with tenant and advocacy organizations, public and private housing funders, owners, developers, and policy makers in their efforts to protect and expand affordable housing.
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