Are Mobile Homes The Future Of Affordable Housing?
27 July 2004 - 10:00am
Amidst stigma and displacement, mobile homes offer new hope for affordable housing emerges.
Approximately eleven million Americans who live in mobile home communities. As an affordable alternative to conventional housing, mobile homes attract retirees, young families, and other people on fixed or low incomes. But despite their ubiquity, mobile home parks are perhaps the most contentious housing phenomenon in America.
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The Next American City, July 26, 2004
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