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English - March 19, 2024 22:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsPolitics News alaska anchorage fairbanks homer juneau nome bethel wasilla soldotna seward Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The Mobile Home Owner Town Hall Episode
Today our show is about mobile home parks. As the state representative for house district 20, I have several mobile home parks in my district. Mobile home owners face unique challenges: they own their home but must rent the land on which their home sits. Every year that rent goes up – yet the value of their home tends to go down. This can create a vicious cycle that can be incredibly difficult for a mobile home owner to break out of. This podcast episode today is an edited version of the Town Hall that I held on Zoom on March 14, 2024. The main guest is attorney Charles Ward of Alaska Legal Services. He answers questions specific to mobile home owners. I also included an excerpt of an interview that I did with my younger brother David Andrew. He owns several mobile home parks and speaks from that perspective. Finally, we hear from Demetria Veasy the assistant director of workforce services at the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. She discusses resources available through her Job Centers throughout the state which help folks achieve higher paying employment.