Esther Sullivan

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    Manufactured homeowners live at risk of eviction – state policies can improve housing insecurity or make it worse.

Manufactured homeowners live at risk of eviction – state policies can improve housing insecurity or make it worse.

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High rents and house prices across America means that mobile homes are playing an increasing role in providing housing in the US. Mobile homes placed in mobile home parks can be precarious, with the potential for closure at any time, displacing hundreds of residents. Esther Sullivan spent two years conducting ethnographic analyses of mobile home parks in Florida and […]

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    Away from cities, informal developments provide affordable housing for those on low incomes, but conditions are often poor.

Away from cities, informal developments provide affordable housing for those on low incomes, but conditions are often poor.

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For many, informal settlements are an urban characteristic normally equated with developing countries, and not the United States. Esther Sullivan and Carlos Olmedo look at the rise of informal housing that often reaches far beyond the U.S.-Mexico border. Through a survey of residents in two informal housing communities in Texas, they find that home self-building provides an affordable way […]

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