Build & Chat - Mobile Home Park (The Sims 3)

Is it still Sims content if I barely talk about the game? I don’t know - you be the judge! In this build and chat video I create my own mobile home park in the Sims 3 while discussing mobile home affordability (or lack thereof) in the United States and what some states are doing to help keep mobile home park residents in their homes.

Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Why not TS4: For Rent?
1:43 - Back on my Zillow bullsh*t
4:30 - Mobile home cost and issues
7:25 - Can I afford a mobile home?
10:55 - Nah, let’s just build some in The Sims
13:40 - Units of Sunset View Community Homes
17:19 - TS3 multi-family lot tutorial
20:13 - New Year’s goals


Link to Sunset View Community Homes on The Sims 3 Exchange:
https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail....

Link to Mortgage Calculator Video:
   • Mortgage Calculator With Extra Payment  

Links to articles and reports referenced:

Private Equity Stakeholder Project, Manufactured Housing Action, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (2019) Private Equity Giants Converge on Manufactured Homes
https://pestakeholder.org/wp-content/...

Kirk, M. (2017, October 31). The Homes Are Mobile, but Many Residents Are Stuck. The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2021, May). Manufactured Housing Finance: New Insights from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data.
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-...

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development & Research (2004, December). Is Manufactured Housing a Good Alternative for Low-Income Families? Evidence from the American Housing Survey
https://www.huduser.gov/publications/...

Links to referenced policy and legislation:

Alameda County, CA - Municipal Code, Chapter 3.32 - Mobile Home Park Rent Review Procedures
https://library.municode.com/ca/alame...

State of Vermont - Memorandum on Notification of Intent to Sell a Mobile Home Park, 10 V.S.A. §6242 and the Housing Division Rules Part I, Rule 13
https://outside.vermont.gov/agency/AC...

State of Colorado - Senate Bill 22-160, Loan Program Resident-owned Communities
https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-160

State of New York - Senate Bill S101A / Assembly Bill A1703A


Music + Sound

"Lobby Time," "Vibing Over Venus," and "Smooth Lovin" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
“Auld Lang Syne” by Alexander Nakarada (free-stock-music.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Sound effects from Freesound.org -
"Pop, Low, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ
“question.mp3” by Taira Komori
“Cash Register” by kiddpark
“Woo Hoo” by Rocotilos
“Rosie_bark_.wav” by beerbelly38
“Water Drop” by pickanothername
“Truck Horn Medium Length.wav” by MisticalSounds2.o
“horn_fail_wahwah_2.wav” by TaranP
“Cat purring and meow” by skymary