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‘We’re human beings’: Michigan mobile home residents fight rent hikes, worsening conditions

If Carla Kinsey’s rent keeps rising, she worries she’ll end up homeless.

For more than a decade, she has lived in Avon on the Lake, a community of manufactured homes for older adults in Rochester Hills. When she moved there in 2010, Kinsey was looking to settle in what she called her “final home.” 

But now, her rent, including the cost of the land where her home sits, consumes more than half of her monthly income. She pays more than $700 every month, up 57% since she moved in.