Mobile Home Residents Hit with Soaring Rent After Hurricanes

Robeson County Affordable Housing Coalition, formed after Hurricane Florence, has asked local officials to take action on Time Out’s rental increases.

Associated Press
  • Published 9 July 2019
Image via AP Photo/Gerry Broome

LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) — For eight years, James Lesane paid what he could for his mobile home lot rental every month — $150. But in February, five months after Hurricane Florence flooded the Lumberton region and shortly after Florida-based company Time Out Communities bought the park, his monthly lot rent more than tripled to $465. With a fixed Social Security disability income of about $791 a month, Lesane said it’s impossible for him to pay… Read at AP News