Queensland’s rental crisis spreads to manufactured home parks

Richard Homans says residents in manufactured home parks feel like they’re at the ‘bottom of the rung’. Photograph: Dan Peled/Dan Peled for The Guardian Australia

When Betty Blythe bought into a manufactured home park, she had no idea that years later she’d been cutting back on groceries and scrapping her home insurance due to increases in rent.

While she owns her home in southern Queensland, Blythe leases the land from the park owner, with rent going towards shared facilities and utilities.