Download or read book Mobile Homes in Rural Communities written by Allan Dennis Wallis and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Singlewide written by Sonya Salamon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America’s trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing public need. Singlewide considers the circumstances of families with school-age children in trailer parks serving whites in Illinois, Hispanics in New Mexico, and African Americans in North Carolina. By looking carefully at the daily lives of families who live side by side in rows of manufactured homes, Salamon and MacTavish draw conclusions about the importance of housing, community, and location in the families’ dreams of opportunities and success as signified by eventually owning land and a conventional home. Working-poor rural families who engage with what Salamon and MacTavish call the "mobile home industrial complex" may become caught in an expensive trap starting with their purchase of a mobile home. A family that must site its trailer in a land-lease trailer park struggles to realize any of the anticipated benefits of homeownership. Seeking to break down stereotypes, Salamon and MacTavish reveal the important place that trailer parks hold within the United States national experience. In so doing, they attempt to integrate and normalize a way of life that many see as outside the mainstream, suggesting that families who live in trailer parks, rather than being "trailer trash," culturally resemble the parks’ neighbors who live in conventional homes.
Download or read book Older Americans in Rural Areas written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventures in Mobile Homes written by Rachel Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hernandez, a.k.a. Mobile Home Gurl, shares stories and adventures based on her own experiences in mobile home investingNthe obstacles, the struggles, and eventually the triumphs.
Download or read book Quality Housing Environment for Rural Low income Families Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Housing Environment for Rural Low income Families written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Examination of Manufactured Housing as a Community and Asset building Strategy written by William C. Apgar and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unknown World of the Mobile Home written by John Fraser Hart and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-08-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the history and culture of mobile homes in the United States. In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and ‘50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable alternative to conventional site-built homes. Today one of every fourteen Americans lives in a mobile home. In The Unknown World of the Mobile Home authors John Fraser Hart, Michelle J. Rhodes, and John T. Morgan illuminate the history and culture of these often misunderstood domiciles. They describe early mobile homes, which were trailers designed to be pulled behind automobiles and which were more often than not poorly constructed and unequal to the needs of those who used them. During the 1970s, however, Congress enacted federal standards for the quality and safety of mobile homes, which led to innovation in design and the production of much more attractive and durable models. These models now comply with local building codes and many are designed to look like conventional houses. As a result, one out every five new single-family housing units purchased in the United States is a mobile home, sited everywhere from the conventional trailer park to custom-designed “estates” aimed at young couples and retirees. Despite all these changes in manufacture and design, even the most immobile mobile homes are still sold, financed, regulated, and taxed as vehicles. With a wealth of detail and illustrations, The Unknown World of the Mobile Home provides readers with an in-depth look into this variation on the American dream. “A clear, concise, and innovative look at the history, the economics, and the politics of the mobile home. The authors reveal the inner workings of mobile home living by drawing upon a wide variety of sources, from industry data to interviews conducted at mobile home parks across the country. Further, they explore new types of mobile home communities—those assembled for workers at meat-processing centers in southwest Kansas, for example—that complicate the familiar image of the mobile home park as retirement village. The ideas presented in this book provide a solid starting point for many detailed studies on this important topic.” —Karl Raitz, University of Kentucky, author of The National Road
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Housing and Community Development Legislation 1973 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Housing and Urban Development Legislation of 1970 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1978 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Housing and Urban Development Legislation 1970 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Housing in the seventies working papers 1 and 2 written by United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
