The word “landlord” is pretty brazen, if you think about it. Look at each of those syllables and consider their combined meaning. As an apartment dweller, I have a landlord, but our relationship is more politely contractual than that feudal-seeming word makes it sound. For people who live in manufactured housing, however, those connotations of serfdom can be devastatingly real. They own their homes, but not the land their homes sit on, which means those who own that land can... Read more