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Author : Robert S. Saia
Release : 2017
Genre : Mobile home parks
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Book Rating : 698/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Appraising Manufactured (mobile) Home Communities and Recreational Vehicle Parks by : Robert S. Saia
Download or read book Appraising Manufactured (mobile) Home Communities and Recreational Vehicle Parks written by Robert S. Saia. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Small Business Administration
Release : 1977
Genre : Mobile home parks
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Book Synopsis Mobile Homes Parks by : United States. Small Business Administration
Download or read book Mobile Homes Parks written by United States. Small Business Administration. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Fraser Hart
Release : 2002-08-20
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 838/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Unknown World of the Mobile Home by : John Fraser Hart
Download or read book The Unknown World of the Mobile Home written by John Fraser Hart. This book was released on 2002-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the history and culture of mobile homes in the United States. In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and ‘50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable alternative to conventional site-built homes. Today one of every fourteen Americans lives in a mobile home. In The Unknown World of the Mobile Home authors John Fraser Hart, Michelle J. Rhodes, and John T. Morgan illuminate the history and culture of these often misunderstood domiciles. They describe early mobile homes, which were trailers designed to be pulled behind automobiles and which were more often than not poorly constructed and unequal to the needs of those who used them. During the 1970s, however, Congress enacted federal standards for the quality and safety of mobile homes, which led to innovation in design and the production of much more attractive and durable models. These models now comply with local building codes and many are designed to look like conventional houses. As a result, one out every five new single-family housing units purchased in the United States is a mobile home, sited everywhere from the conventional trailer park to custom-designed “estates” aimed at young couples and retirees. Despite all these changes in manufacture and design, even the most immobile mobile homes are still sold, financed, regulated, and taxed as vehicles. With a wealth of detail and illustrations, The Unknown World of the Mobile Home provides readers with an in-depth look into this variation on the American dream. “A clear, concise, and innovative look at the history, the economics, and the politics of the mobile home. The authors reveal the inner workings of mobile home living by drawing upon a wide variety of sources, from industry data to interviews conducted at mobile home parks across the country. Further, they explore new types of mobile home communities—those assembled for workers at meat-processing centers in southwest Kansas, for example—that complicate the familiar image of the mobile home park as retirement village. The ideas presented in this book provide a solid starting point for many detailed studies on this important topic.” —Karl Raitz, University of Kentucky, author of The National Road
Author : Sonya Salamon
Release : 2017-10-15
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 682/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Singlewide by : Sonya Salamon
Download or read book Singlewide written by Sonya Salamon. This book was released on 2017-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 public need. Singlewide considers the circumstances of families with school-age children in trailer parks serving whites in Illinois, Hispanics in New Mexico, and African Americans in North Carolina. By looking carefully at the daily lives of families who live side by side in rows of manufactured homes, Salamon and MacTavish draw conclusions about the importance of housing, community, and location in the families’ dreams of opportunities and success as signified by eventually owning land and a conventional home. Working-poor rural families who engage with what Salamon and MacTavish call the "mobile home industrial complex" may become caught in an expensive trap starting with their purchase of a mobile home. A family that must site its trailer in a land-lease trailer park struggles to realize any of the anticipated benefits of homeownership. Seeking to break down stereotypes, Salamon and MacTavish reveal the important place that trailer parks hold within the United States national experience. In so doing, they attempt to integrate and normalize a way of life that many see as outside the mainstream, suggesting that families who live in trailer parks, rather than being "trailer trash," culturally resemble the parks’ neighbors who live in conventional homes.
Author : Appraisal Institute (U.S.)
Release : 1994
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 166/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Appraising Residential Properties by : Appraisal Institute (U.S.)
Download or read book Appraising Residential Properties written by Appraisal Institute (U.S.). This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive handbook on residential valuation which includes coverage of recently revised professional standards, descriptions of current reporting formats, current definitions for industry-specific terms, and more.
