Manufactured Insecurity
eBook - ePub

Manufactured Insecurity

Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Manufactured Insecurity

Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place

About this book

Manufactured Insecurity is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents. Drawing on rich ethnographic data collected before, during, and after mobile home park closures and community-wide evictions in Florida and Texas—the two states with the largest mobile home populations—Manufactured Insecurity forces social scientists and policymakers to respond to a fundamental question: how do the poor access and retain secure housing in the face of widespread poverty, deepening inequality, and scarce legal protection? With important contributions to urban sociology, housing studies, planning, and public policy, the book provides a broader understanding of inequality and social welfare in the United States today.

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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Prologue
  8. Introduction: Halfway Homeowners
  9. 1. The Mobile Home in America and Americana
  10. 2. Socio-Spatial Stigma and Trailer Trash
  11. 3. Daily Life under the Specter of Dislocation
  12. 4. “We Are Not for Sure Wherever We Are”
  13. 5. Relocation and the Paradox of State Interventions
  14. 6. Communities as Currency within the Mobile Home Empire
  15. Conclusion
  16. Methodological Appendix
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. Index