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How Mobile Home Owners Organize for Land Ownership and Climate Resiliency

NonProfit Quarterly

And though the name might suggest that residents can easily pick up and move, these manufactured homes are actually not very mobile at all. Manufactured housing is “the Ugly Duckling of affordable housing,” according to the Niskanen Center , which describes the mobile home as “a grievously underutilized, deeply affordable housing resource.”

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From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions

NonProfit Quarterly

Following the Great Recession, corporations and private equity firms aggressively purchased multifamily rental housing, single-family homes, and manufactured housing communities. But relying on the market to solve the affordability crisis ignores the structural problems and power dynamics baked into our housing system.

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Project 2025: What Does It Mean for Racial and Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

Housing: The Project 2025 chapter on housing is authored by a familiar name, none other than the former US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson. Two things are true: 1) A lot of what is written will never make it into law, and 2) too much of it may well. Occasionally, one finds an interesting wrinkle.