‘Completely unaffordable’: Manufactured home residents protest skyrocketing lot rents in Lehigh Valley communities

LOWER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. — The doubling of lot rental prices for area manufactured housing in recent years brought dozens to a meeting Wednesday to get guidance from a state agency.

The Coalition of Manufactured Home Communities of Pennsylvania’s get-together in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church came because many of those tenants are people on limited or fixed incomes, including retirees and families.

Coalition members Robert Besecker and Reggie Hockenberry addressed those dire worries and offered advice on how to effectively push legislation that could help prevent rental increases high enough for some homeowners to call them a scam…

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