Are Mobile Homes The Future Of Affordable Housing?
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.
Thanks to Seth Brown
Published on Monday, July 26, 2004 in
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