Are mobile forms of housing able displace the real estate market? 11

"Van life" is arguably evidence of this form of living making a resurgence, if simply by necessity.

This is an interesting conversation but you can tell the guy lacks a lot of context. Mobile homes have a huge issue with price gouging of lot rents. The cost to move is prohibitively expensive for most people, and the things need to go somewhere so people end up stuck. Boats for power generation don’t work because the majority of the work of power production is anticipating and meeting demand. It would create periodic crises where communities would have to bid for energy without developing reliable production capacity for themselves. Price gouging would be inevitable. Interesting convo, but the solutions are just an exercise without any real analysis of the real factors involved.

Not sure about his idea of nuclear on boats, feels like we'd be one big wave from creating Godzilla

Hmm, people really do not want to be living in trailers. The way to disrupt the property market is to make it much easier to build new homes - just like Tokyo has done.

The solution is to get rid of zoning, which bans condos on most land restricted to detached houses, and also bans micro-units.

Rory promoting vanlife is a plot twist I didn’t see coming.

"Mobile homes" is a misnomer. They are pre-fab homes brought in on wheels. Once in place, they almost never move again.

Changed jobs from doorman at clubs to night work at a hospital during covid. Given the amenities at work and the increasing rent for a shoebox I decided to live in a very simple work horse Toyota. I work long shifts and can shower and eat at work I literally just needed a place to sleep. And as for girls a hotel and a simple diet and a physical job kept my options open for casual sex. I have spent since 2020 to now sleeping in my car and I have a property I am renting while I am working at the same time. I have almost paid off the mortgage on the 2 bedroom flat and the Toyota was 900 quid and it's steaming right along. Soon when the flats paid off I'll pull my savings and liquidity of the flat into a family home and might even rent that out until that's paid off. You can pay your mortgage off these days but it takes sacrifice.

Sticking two caravans together £80k x 2 = £160k you can certainly buy a house better than two caravans in Leeds/ the north for that. Odd point to make…

Private Equity is determined to gobble up all the Mobile Home (trailer parks) and either develop the land as single family higher end housing or jack the price and squeeze the affordable housing for double or triple the rates.