“Look at my house!” Home and mobile home ownership among Latino/a immigrants in Florida

Kusenbach, Margarethe

doi:10.1007/s10901-015-9488-8

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“…Our model estimates that mobile home prevalence is higher in areas with lower residential turnover, lower levels of renters, and more affordable housing. While we cannot make individual inference from our ecological analysis, these findings are in line with previous research finding that most mobile home residents own their own home (Kusenbach, 2017), that mobile homeownership is often stable and long-term (Aman & Yarnal, 2010), and that mobile homeownership is an accessible form of affordable housing (Sullivan, 2017b).…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Social isolation has been shown to increase due to the presumed, but not necessarily accurate (Aman & Yarnal, 2010), temporary nature of living in a mobile home and the lack of public spaces and amenities provided in mobile home communities (MacTavish & Salamon, 2009). Something of note is that the positive social effects of homeownership, something that is widely valued by many Americans, are not felt by all who own mobile homes, with Hispanic immigrants being more likely to see mobile home ownership as an accomplishment to be proud of than other groups (Kusenbach, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Factors affecting mobile home prevalence in the United States: Poverty, amenities, and natural resource employment

Brooks¹,

Mueller²

2019

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Mobile home residence in the United States is associated with negative social, economic, and health related outcomes. However, while research on mobile home residence at the individual level has been performed, a geographic understanding of mobile home prevalence in the United States remains absent from the literature. Therefore, the purpose of our analysis was to evaluate the county-level drivers of mobile home prevalence in the continental United States in 2015. The influence of five groups of variables – demographic, economic, housing, industry and occupation, and natural amenities – were assessed in a series of nested OLS regressions. Additionally, the full model was run as a spatial lag regression to control for spatial autocorrelation. Our results indicate that the primary drivers of mobile home prevalence in U.S. counties were the percent of population in near poverty, the labor force

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Background Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Factors affecting mobile home prevalence in the United States: Poverty, amenities, and natural resource employment

Brooks¹,

Mueller²

2019

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“…Another interesting Latino social formation is the one examined by Kusenbach (2015) in South Florida. She analyses the meaning of home ownership in the context of stigmatized mobile home communities (a phenomenon which is also quantitatively relevant, given that, according to estimates, over 20 million people live in mobile homes across the USA).…”

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Immigrants and home in the making: thresholds of domesticity, commonality and publicness

Boccagni

Brighenti

2015

J Hous and the Built Environ

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The search for home as a material and symbolic space is an increasingly salient social question across contemporary multiethnic cities. The boundaries between what is public, communal and domestic are increasingly contested and yet remain a crucial issue, especially for minority groups such as immigrant and ethnic communities. The domestication of everyday living spaces carried out by immigrant and ethnic groups entails a variety of ways of 'cultivating home'. In a context characterized by transnational mobility, ethnic segregation and social marginality, domesticity-understood as the potential to enact a domestic dimension in meaningful places-is an important asset to resist present hardships, cultivate memory and lay out projects for the future. In this Editorial, we seek to untangle the multiple stakes entailed by the practices of 'making home' and 'feeling at home'. We invite scholars to observe how, even in minute and mundane details, dwelling places and the built environment come to be imbued with social and cultural meanings, which are pivotal to survival and social recognition. The articulation of domesticity, commonality and publicness can be fruitfully mapped through the concept of 'thresholds', which brings together the case studies that follow. By doing so, this Special Issue as a whole lays out a new research agenda at the intersection of housing, urban and migration studies.

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“…Social isolation has been shown to increase due to the presumed, but not necessarily accurate, temporary nature of living in a mobile home (Aman & Yarnal, ) and the lack of public spaces and amenities provided in mobile home communities (MacTavish & Salamon, 2009). Something of note is that the positive social effects of homeownership, something that is widely valued by many Americans, are not felt by all who own mobile homes, with Hispanic immigrants being more likely to see mobile home ownership as an accomplishment to be proud of than other groups (Kusenbach, ).…”

Section: Background Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Factors affecting mobile home prevalence in the United States: Poverty, natural amenities, and employment in natural resources

Brooks

Mueller

2020

Population Space and Place

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Mobile home residence in the United States is associated with negative social, economic, and health-related outcomes. However, although research on mobile home residence at the individual level has been performed, a geographic understanding of mobile home prevalence in the United States remains absent from the literature.Therefore, the purpose of our analysis was to evaluate the county-level drivers of mobile home prevalence in the continental United States in 2015. The influence of five groups of variables-demographic, economic, housing, industry and occupation, and natural amenities-were assessed in a series of nested ordinary least squares regressions. Additionally, the full model was run as a spatial lag regression to control for spatial autocorrelation. Our results indicate that the primary drivers of mobile home prevalence in U.S. counties were the percent of population in near poverty, the labour force participation rate, and the percent of the population employed in natural resource occupations.

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“Look at my house!” Home and mobile home ownership among Latino/a immigrants in Florida

Cited by 41 publications

References 28 publications

Factors affecting mobile home prevalence in the United States: Poverty, amenities, and natural resource employment

Factors affecting mobile home prevalence in the United States: Poverty, amenities, and natural resource employment

Immigrants and home in the making: thresholds of domesticity, commonality and publicness

Factors affecting mobile home prevalence in the United States: Poverty, natural amenities, and employment in natural resources

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