“A Decent Home”

• Locations: Columns, Español By Tony Mendez Published Aug. 10, 2022

  "Un Hogar Decente" y la Ley de Parques de Hogares Móviles

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  A mediados de Julio tuve la oportunidad de ver el documental “A Decent Home” o “Un Hogar Decente”. El evento, organizado por la organización MANAUS de Carbondale, se enfocó en el tema de compraventas de parques de hogares móviles, o “trailas” como les decimos también.

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• Locations: News By Raleigh Burleigh Published Jul. 20, 2022

  'A Decent Home' screens in Carbondale

  In a scene from “A Decent Home”, U.S. Senator (and then-presidential candidate) Elizabeth Warren sits with a group of park residents in Iowa. Mobile home park residents across that state have fought against Havenpark Capital, a Utah private equity firm that is buying up mobile home parks in the Midwest and raising monthly lot rents, sometimes more than 50 or 60 percent. Image courtesy of Mobile Movies

  Director Sara Terry spent over six years making “A Decent Home”, her third documentary. Coming from a background in journalism, Terry told The Sopris Sun that filmmaking is “the biggest kind of conversation of any journalism I know or have participated in” with the most potential for impact.… read more →