Singlewide : : Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park /

Singlewide : : Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park / / Katherine MacTavish, Sonya Salamon.

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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 publ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Salamon, Sonya,
MacTavish, Katherine,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.) :; 9 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Par t 1. GOING MOBILE IN A RURAL TRAILER PARK
  • 1. The Mobile Home Industrial Complex
  • 2. Making Ends Meet
  • Part 2. CHASING A HOUSING DREAM ACROSS THREE RURAL REGIONS
  • 3. The Illinois Park
  • 4. The North Carolina Parks
  • 5. The New Mexico Parks
  • Part 3. IS THE HOUSING DREAM REALIZED BY TRAILER-PARK FAMILIES?
  • 6. Youth and Trailer-Park Life
  • 7. Reforming the Mobile Home Industrial Complex
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A. The Study, Methods, and Sample
  • Appendix B. North Carolina and New Mexico Park Population Details
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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