Mobile homes could be a climate solution, a new report argues. Mobile homes are more energy-efficient, affordable, and adaptable than conventional homes. They could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, housing inequality, and disaster vulnerability.

#MobileHomes #ClimateSolution #HousingJustice

https://grist.org/equity/mobile-homes-could-be-a-climate-solution/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FArchetypes

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Mobile home park residents form co-ops to save their homes

When residents learned the park’s owner was looking to sell, they formed a cooperative and bought it themselves amid worries it would be redeveloped. Since becoming owners in September 2022, residents have worked together to manage and maintain the park.

#Coops #cohousing #SolidarityEconomy #MobileHomes #MobileHomeParks

https://news.yahoo.com/mobile-home-park-residents-form-160007908.html

Not good... lots of #Tchula #MS seems to be #mobilehomes #TornadoEmergency

In the US South, residents of counties with lower % white population, and higher % of Hispanic residents and mobile homes are disproportionately exposed to prescribed burns to prevent uncontrolled wildfire.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3458285

#NICHDimpact #Wildfires #Race #MobileHomes

Armitage residents discuss issues facing mobile home residents at meeting with MP and councillor

https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/2023/02/04/armitage-residents-discuss-issues-facing-mobile-home-residents-at-meeting-with-mp-and-councillor/

#Lichfield #News #Armitage #MichaelFabricant #mobilehomes #RichardCox

Homeowners being #evicted? You read that right! It’s happening as #PrivateEquity firms buy up #TrailerParks across the U.S. And contrary to their name, #MobileHomes are not easily mobile. Please watch and share.

https://youtu.be/LVZsDMm6UVc

#housing #eviction #HousingCrisis

>20 million Americans live in mobile homes. Many trailer parks are on "fringe" land, subject to weather events (e.g., flooding) & thereby at greater risk in these end times. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/16/us-mobile-home-flood-risk-climate-crisis #mobilehomes

"Drone footage shows dozens of mobile homes destroyed by the #WoolseyFire in Agoura Hills, California, as death toll continues to climb." -@ABC 📸
#CaliforniaFires #AgrouraHills #ConejoValley #LosAngeles #MobileHomes