THE VIDEO SHELF · mobile home parks
Mobile Homes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on mobile homes, showing how large investment companies are making this affordable housing option less affordable. It covers residents who rent land and cannot move their homes.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters point to it as good, accessible coverage of mobile-home park exploitation by private equity.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- LastWeekTonight
- Topic
- mobile home parks
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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This was recently featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [1] which also does a good job of covering this issue. [1] [VIDEO]
jamestanderson on Hacker News · 2019-05
In The Mobile-Home Trap (2015)How much time do you have? The short version is that while there's not necessarily anything wrong with them in principle, in practice there's a pretty impressive amount of exploitation at nearly every level of the industry. It more closely resembles the dynamics of car …
0xcde4c3db on Hacker News · 2024-01
In Austin takes a bet on tiny homes to ease homelessness
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