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Resident-Owned, Informal Mobile Home Communities in Rural California: The Case of Rancho Don Antonio, Coachella Valley

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  • Vinit Mukhija
  • David R. Mason

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California's farmworkers are among the lowest-paid wage earners in the state. They often live in crowded or substandard housing. The Polanco Bill-state legislation enacted in the early 1990s-aimed to increase the supply of housing for farmworkers by encouraging the development of employee housing on land zoned for agriculture. This article discusses the implementation and effects of the Polanco Bill in the agricultural area of the eastern Coachella Valley. It finds, somewhat unexpectedly, that groups of farmworkers, often family members, have used the bill to collaborate and develop small, resident-owned, informal mobile home communities, called polancos, and focuses on one such case. Although the article's key contribution is to identify the informal approach and its key attributes, it also discusses whether a new housing model based on the collectively owned polancos is possible.

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  • Vinit Mukhija & David R. Mason, 2015. "Resident-Owned, Informal Mobile Home Communities in Rural California: The Case of Rancho Don Antonio, Coachella Valley," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(1), pages 179-194, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:25:y:2015:i:1:p:179-194
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2014.921220
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    1. Nicole Gurran & Madeleine Pill & Sophia Maalsen, 2021. "Hidden homes? Uncovering Sydney’s informal housing market," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(8), pages 1712-1731, June.

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