Katie Phang

and they bleed people like me dry.

They're now charging us water, which used to be included in the rent, and that's over $100 a month.

Plus, we get to pay them an administration fee and pay for our trash, which also was included in our rent.

Thank you.

The best thing about it is we paid, excuse me.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Yeah, the government subsidized the buying of our park with a loan from Freddie Mac.

My tax dollars helped steal my retirement.

After all the added costs, I am now on the verge of being homeless.

I don't have anywhere to go.

I started going to meetings of the local homelessness coalition to figure out what to do when I lose my home.

I've had to take on a roommate at my age.

Seriously?

Every month I have to borrow money from a friend

I now owe her over $5,000, and I don't know how I'll ever pay her back.

I don't even know how to properly thank her.

Without her, I would be on the street right now.

But I'm not going to sit back and take it, and neither are other people in the mobile home community parks all over Michigan and the country.

If I can stand up now

and fight back at my age, in my condition, living on the edge of homelessness, you can too.