In disaster, mobile home residents aren't just physically more vulnerable—a variety of factors coalesce to make them socially vulnerable too. Our latest #QuickResponse report from@OldManRumbach Esther Sullivan looks at ways to quantify their exposure. bit.ly/2EKbnZQ

ABF Speaker Series Next Wed: .Esther Sullivan assistant professor CU Denver will speak on the mass evictions of mobile home parks & the "right to place" from her book, "Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans' Tenuous Right to Place." ow.ly/ddFr50y3l60

My City & Community review of University of California Press (is on Bluesky) Manufactured Insecurity by Esther Sullivan: mobile home #evictions create collective trauma, eroding social ties btwn neighbors & communal #support, destroying #community—the precise thing that often aids people struggling w/ #housinginsecurity

For anyone interested in how social inequality is tied to housing & where we live, check out this reading list I put together for ⁦Electric Literature⁩ w books by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Isabel Wilkerson Matthew Desmond Esther Sullivan ⁦⁦patrick_sharkey⁩ electricliterature.com/8-books-about-…

Eviction: The physical, financial and mental health consequences of losing your home, via Clark Merrefield, featuring research from Philip ME Garboden Eva Rosen Matthew Desmond Hugo Vásquez Esther Sullivan @[email protected] Naomi Zewde ናሆሜ John Eric Humphries @IanLundberg + many more bit.ly/33lYsJ1

As questions loom about pending nationwide evictions in the U.S., looking back at Esther Sullivan's (Esther Sullivan) 2017 article: "Displaced in Place: Manufactured Housing, Mass Eviction, and the Paradox of State Intervention" Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Great, short summary from American Planning Association on the proper terminology used for manufactured home communities, and primer on the planning challenges they face. Major takeaway: I need to read Esther Sullivan's book Manufactured Insecurity. planning.org/pas/memo/2020/…

My review on Manufactured Insecurity University of California Press (is on Bluesky) - Esther Sullivan‘s gripping ethnography on America's popular mobile home parks for the poor where precariousness=profit. A must-read if studying #housing & #cities michele lancione David Madden Ananya Roy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Mobile home households are 89% more likely to lack piped water compared with other types of homes. I weigh in on important research by Katie Meehan et al. Research sheds light on race and water access in metro areas journalistsresource.org/studies/societ…

Next time you wash your hands remember: 1.1 million people in the U.S. lack “complete plumbing." #plumbingpoverty Investigating stories on water access, affordability and safety: 5 tips to get started journalistsresource.org/tip-sheets/rep…

Esther Sullivan: "At a time when we’ve cut federal support for affordable housing, manufactured housing has risen to fill that gap.” Mobile homes are often the only affordable housing option. And now private equity firms aim to capitalize on them: newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…

Institutional & corporate investment in mobile home parks is the leading edge of a new phase in this nation's affordable housing crisis as I discuss in #manufacturedinsecurity and here with The New Yorker writer Sheelah Kolhatkar newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…

Our article the role of mobile home parks in metropolitan housing markets is published in JAPA. This is the culmination of several years of careful work by Esther Sullivan, Carrie Makarewicz, myself and our team. Headline findings below: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Have you listened to the latest episode of Ownership Matters? We caught up with Esther Sullivan, author of "Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans' Tenuous Right to Place" - tune in for a great conversation! rocusa.org/episodes/episo…

We are pleased to announce the launch of our website at rightsforresidentsco.com This site is an information hub for Mobile Home Park Residents Protections: a bill which will soon be introduced in the CO state legislature. We'd encourage you to sign up for email updates! 👇

Fort Collins-based community organizer and mobile home resident Samantha Stegner explains why she became an organizer, and why she’s passionate about standing up for #RightsForResidents in her community.

We cannot afford to lose Colorado’s largest source of naturally-occurring affordable housing. Let’s pass HB22-1287 and stop out-of-state investors from buying up mobile home parks and displacing residents. More at rightsforresidentsco.com #RightsForResidents

Colorado's HB22-1287 will provide important guardrails for landlords and investors, some of whom are raising lot rents at exorbitant rates and displacing Coloradans from their homes. Read about the bill at rightsforresidentsco.com #RightsForResidents

Dec 6: Department of Housing and Urban Development hosts an event with Secretary Marcia L. Fudge & others about investor activity in the housing market, which increased in the pandemic, and can limit homeownership opportunities for first-time buyers and contribute to racial wealth & homeownership gaps. huduser.gov/portal/event/I…

Discussing private equity and other institutional investment in housing at this Department of Housing and Urban Development event next week