Assistant Professor of Sociology Esther Sullivan, author of the book Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place, said mobile-home parks now compose one of the largest sources of nonsubsidized low-income housing in the country. “How important are they to our national housing stock? Unbelievably important,” Sullivan said. “At a time when we’ve cut federal support for affordable housing, manufactured housing has risen to fill that gap.”

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The New Yorker, Mar 8