Episode 62: Mobile Home

Residential
Written By Alex Norman

In today’s episode of The Real State, we explore the intersection between the critical need for affordable housing in America and the realities facing the communities that these facilities were meant to serve.

We are honored to have as our guest today Sara Terry, an award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and journalist. Sara’sfirst film, Fambul Tok, the story of an unprecedented grass-roots forgiveness program in Sierra Leone, premiered at SXSW in 2011. It played at more than a hundred festivals around the world and won several prizes, including the Human Spirit Award at Nashville Film Festival. Sara is the producer, director, and cinematographer of A Decent Home, a documentary that follows the residents of several manufactured home parks across the country, and examines the impact that a wave of private equity firm purchases of mobile home parks is having on its residents.

Alex Norman

Alex Norman is the founder and CEO of Access Built, a leading agency helping organizations reimagine environments to be more inclusive. As the author of Boundless: Real Stories and Practical Strategies for Inclusive Living, Alex blends powerful life stories with actionable design strategies. A former global advertising and innovation leader, Alex now helps organizations uncover and remove the “friction points” in the built world. His work, rooted in personal experience and collaboration with design leaders, challenges audiences to see accessibility not as compliance but as a catalyst for innovation, inclusion, and human potential.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexnorman1/
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