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About this book
In rural northern Idaho in the winter of 2013-2014, Syringa Mobile Home Park's water system was contaminated by sewage, resulting in residents' water being shut off for 93 days. By summer 2018 Syringa had closed, forcing residents to relocate or face homelessness. Trailer Park America chronicles how residents dealt with regulatory agencies, frequent boil order notices, threats of closure, and class-based social stigma over this period. Despite all this, what was seen as a dysfunctional, 'disorderly' community by outsiders was instead a refuge where veterans, women heads of households, and people with disabilities or substance use disorders were supported and understood. The embattled Syringa community also organized to defend the rights and dignity of residents and served as a site for negotiating with local government, culminating in a class-action lawsuit that reached the federal level. The experiences Syringa residents faced in this conservative, predominately white region of the United States are emblematic of the growing national and global crisis in affordable housing and home ownership, with declining work conditions and incomes for the working-class.
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Publisher
Rutgers University PressYear
2023Print ISBN
9781978829466, 9781978829473eBook ISBN
9781978829497Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Dawn Tachell
- Chronology
- Introduction: Crisis
- 1. Who Belongs on the Palouse?
- 2. Inventing Working-Class Communities
- 3. Making a Functional Community Amid Disorder
- 4. Voluntary Compliance: Flushing the Public Good
- 5. Red Tags: The Letter of the Law Kills
- 6. Syringa Refugees
- 7. Death of a Community
- 8. Trailer Park Politics: Recognizing Working-Class People’s Knowledge and Mobilization
- 9. Trailer Park America: Syringa Residents’ Lessons to the Public
- Appendix: Methodological Approach
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author