The Contribution of Manufactured Housing to Affordable Housing in the United States: Assessing Variation Among Manufactured Housing Tenures and Community Types

Durst, Noah J.; Sullivan, Esther

doi:10.1080/10511482.2019.1605534

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“…In simple terms, informal housing bypasses 'formal' regulatory systems of production or tenure because these rules are too onerous, costly, and/or the potential profits are high. Secondary dwellings, boarding houses, as well as mobile or manufactured home estates and other non-conventional housing types are increasingly referred to in the literature as informal (Durst & Sullivan, 2019;Kinsella, 2017;Mendez, 2017) whether or not they meet regulatory requirements, because they challenge predominant conceptions of the single family home and household unit; typically involve different processes of residential production (financing and construction); often involve some negotiated sharing of spaces or facilities; and may be occupied by a negotiated or ad hoc rental arrangement.…”

Section: Classifying Informal Housing Typesmentioning

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Is ‘informal’ housing an affordability solution for expensive cities? Evidence from Sydney, Australia

Gurran

Maalsen

Shrestha

2020

International Journal of Housing Policy

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Does 'informal' housing offer more affordable choices for low-income renters in expensive cities? This paper investigates this question with reference to Sydney, Australia, where planning reforms have sought to deregulate housing development including 'informal' and low cost market accommodation, in response to chronic housing affordability pressures. Examining rental advertisements, housing supply and affordability data, and through interviews with local government personnel, we find that informal secondary units and room rentals dominate Sydney's lower cost market, but rents remain high relative to incomes. Further, and despite reforms to encourage new secondary dwellings and low cost rental supply, substandard and non-compliant housing persists, exposing tenants to serious risks. The findings suggest that in high cost cities such as Sydney, the informal sector occupies an important and unrecognised role in housing low-income renters, but that more systemic reforms beyond the planning system are needed to improve housing outcomes for disadvantaged groups.

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Section: Classifying Informal Housing Typesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is ‘informal’ housing an affordability solution for expensive cities? Evidence from Sydney, Australia

Gurran

Maalsen

Shrestha

2020

International Journal of Housing Policy

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“…A wide range of literature has focused on the changing affordability of different housing types, mostly commonly single-family homes and apartments (Harvard JCHS 2018;Stone 2006). Mobile homes are shown to be one of the largest private sources of affordable housing in the United States, especially in recent decades (Boehm and Schlottmann 2008;Durst and Sullivan 2019). Therefore, I control for housing type.…”

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Differential Attainment of Affordable Housing among America’s Ethnoracial Groups; 2005-2017

Brooks¹

2019

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Affordable housing is an under researched area of residential attainment despite is importance and the potential consequences of households spending too much on housing—such as forced moves and financial instability. This study analyzes disparities in attainment of affordable housing between white, black, Hispanic, and Asian households using 2005-2017 American Community Survey microdata linked to county-level ACS 5-year estimates. I test hypotheses regarding the overall disparities between ethnoracial groups, potential limited returns on socioeconomic status and acculturation characteristics for black, Hispanic, and Asian households relative to white households, and the positive effects of high coethnic populations within the county of residence. Results show there are significant gaps between whites and the other groups regarding their attainment of affordable housing throughout the study period. Differential returns on socioeconomic status are also present, with Hispanics and Asians receiving lesser returns on education relative to whites. Hispanics received significant benefits regarding immigrant status compared to other ethnoracial groups. When accounting for county-level ethnoracial composition there is clear evidence that black, Hispanic, and Asian households are more likely to benefit than white households if they live in a county with an increased coethnic population. However, all groups become less likely overall to live in affordable housing as a county’s percentage white decreases suggesting that ethnoracial composition affects both the overall attainment of affordable housing for all groups and the relative disparities between groups within counties.

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“…Mobile home parks concentrate socially vulnerable households in locations that are spatially vulnerable. MHP residents have higher poverty rates than traditional renters and owners (Durst and Sullivan 2019). Large percentages of minority and immigrant households live in MHPs (Schmitz 2004).…”

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“…Meanwhile, MHP properties are also spatially marginalized due to a century of planning policies that limit MHPs in single-family residential neighborhoods and restrict them to commercial and industrial zones (Dawkins et al 2008;Sanders 1998). Due to this planning treatment, MHPs are highly segregated from both single-family and apartment housing (Durst and Sullivan 2019). Additionally, municipal ordinances often require that MHPs be "visually screened" behind walls, shrubbery, or fences, which means they are physically sealed off from surrounding communities.…”

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Becoming Visible in the Public Sphere: Mobile Home Park Residents’ Political Engagement in City Council Hearings

Sullivan

2021

Qual Sociol

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In the United States, mobile homes provide the country's largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing. Yet, state planning policies have relegated mobile home parks, the communities where many of these homes are located, to inferior lands in nonresidential areas of towns and cities. These practices spatially and socially marginalize mobile home parks while creating conditions that facilitate their redevelopment. When mobile home parks are redeveloped, entire communities are evicted en masse. This article examines how residents in closing mobile home parks engage state power through the public sphere of city council meetings, a primary place where average citizens directly confront political authority. Through a multi-year, multi-sited ethnography of city council hearings on redevelopment projects that closed mobile home parks in three US states-Texas, Florida, and Colorado-I analyze how mobile home park residents encounter state power as they assemble, make claims, and debate municipal responses to their eviction. I consider how marginalized residents perform citizenship differently-as suppliants, as watchdogs, or as self-advocates-and compare the outcomes of these different modes of engagement. I consider the implications for the "communicative turn" in urban governance and show that mere participation-lauded as a major goal of civic engagement-is not enough to produce effective outcomes for evicted residents.

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The Contribution of Manufactured Housing to Affordable Housing in the United States: Assessing Variation Among Manufactured Housing Tenures and Community Types

Cited by 28 publications

References 24 publications

Is ‘informal’ housing an affordability solution for expensive cities? Evidence from Sydney, Australia

Is ‘informal’ housing an affordability solution for expensive cities? Evidence from Sydney, Australia

Differential Attainment of Affordable Housing among America’s Ethnoracial Groups; 2005-2017

Becoming Visible in the Public Sphere: Mobile Home Park Residents’ Political Engagement in City Council Hearings

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