mobile home

The power fails in the mobile home parks and with it go the fans, air conditioners and swamp coolers.

A community organizer named Lesly Figueroa took us on a tour of the mobile home parks — Polancos, as they’re called around here.

Mobile home residents call its emergency hotline repeatedly to beg for help with homes that are falling apart and mobile home parks that don’t care.

A utility company is investigating financial eligibility problems, she added, and the county public health department is assessing resources for the mobile home community.

Fixing an aging mobile home could easily cost more than it’s worth — if the structure could survive the renovation.

Inside the mobile home the next day, she says, were an untouched glass of wine and a burned-down cigarette.

Her mobile home was returned to the dealer; her Toyota was worth less than she owed on it.

Do not remain in a trailer or mobile home if a tornado is approaching; take cover elsewhere.