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Why Do Planners Overlook Manufactured Housing and Resident-Owned Communities as Sources of Affordable Housing and Climate Transformation?

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  • Zachary Lamb
  • Linda Shi
  • Jason Spicer

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More Americans live in manufactured housing than in public and federally subsidized rental housing combined. Of the nearly 40,000 U.S. manufactured housing communities (MHCs), more than 1,000 are resident-owned communities (ROCs), a form of cooperative ownership. Yet planning research continues to neglect MHCs and ROCs, raising questions of classism and cultural bias. We address five common biases against MHCs and argue ROCs in particular deserve greater attention because they enable low-income people to improve their housing security in the face of financial and environmental vulnerabilities. Lessons from these efforts can help other alternative and collective housing providers do the same.

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  • Zachary Lamb & Linda Shi & Jason Spicer, 2023. "Why Do Planners Overlook Manufactured Housing and Resident-Owned Communities as Sources of Affordable Housing and Climate Transformation?," Journal of the American Planning Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 89(1), pages 72-79, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjpaxx:v:89:y:2023:i:1:p:72-79
    DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2022.2038238
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