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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"manufactured housing"”.
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Manufactured housing: an assessment of community attitudes
… of rural Virginia regarding acceptance of manufactured homes, formerly known as mobile homes, and their occupants. The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent respondents' demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, innovativeness, and perceptions of manufactured home …
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Analysis and evaluation of passive solar application for mobile home manufactured housing
Mobile homes, like other forms of factory-built housing are ideally adapted to the use of solar energy because of the materials and construction methods used in their manufacturing process. This thesis is written to examine those characteristics of mobile homes which can best be taken into …
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The NIMBY Syndrome and Low-Cost Manufactured Housing Developments: Can Landscape Architecture Help Overcome Community Opposition?
Decent housing available to the working class in America is in very short supply. Manufactured housing could help to meet this basic need. But community groups and politicians often reject manufactured housing because they fear it will have a negative impact upon property values and the aesthetic …
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Industrialized building: design proposal for a mobile home
Mobile homes have become an important housing alternative in the United States. In southwest Virginia manufactured housing is currently the "fastest growing type of housing"
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FROM CAMPING TO PERMANENCE: A HISTORY OF MONTANA MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES
… the history of Montanans use and perceptions of manufactured homes. Nationally, manufactured housing has enjoyed a dynamic historic and social evolution, as revealed by federal, state, and local documents, newspaper reports, periodicals, and interviews. Yet, manufactured housing struggles to …
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FROM CAMPING TO PERMANENCE: A HISTORY OF MONTANA MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES
… the history of Montanans use and perceptions of manufactured homes. Nationally, manufactured housing has enjoyed a dynamic historic and social evolution, as revealed by federal, state, and local documents, newspaper reports, periodicals, and interviews. Yet, manufactured housing struggles to …
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Trends and Diversification in the Factory-Built Home Industry
The factory-built housing industry, while originating from mobile homes, has seen new industry-segments emerge such as, for example, modular, panelized, and pre-cut homes. These new segments have promoted the ability of existing producers to diversify. As producers of factory-built homes merge …
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Prefabrication and the individual
… attempts to address the perceived failure of the manufactured housing industry to adequately speak to issues of universality and specificity. The universal is investigated and redefined according to two specific circumstances: two communities, two Lots and two houses, in two very different places. …
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Ties That Bind: The Informal Social Networks of Rural African-American Mobile -Home Park Families
… compounded with the economic reality of manufactured housing, this study seeks to understand whether being embedded in kin, church, and neighborhood networks provide access to sustained social and economic resources for rural African-American mobile-home park families. These networks help …
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The receptivity to housing policy initiatives: adequate and affordable housing in the rural south
… of this study was to assess the impact of housing actors’ housing knowledge and involvement, perceptions of community Situations influencing housing, support for housing programs, and demographic characteristics on their receptiveness to housing policy initiatives. Perceptions of housing …
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The Design of Post-Disaster Housing Units For The East Boston Community
… damage. FEMA provides temporary post-disaster housing in the form of Manufactured Housing Units (MHUs), often prefabricated off-site and transported to the post-disaster location in need. While these units provide to families basic living necessities for up to 18 months, they can rarely satisfy …
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Integrated Design and Manufacturing [IDM] Framework for the Modular Construction Industry
… design to modular construction for single-family housing. In addition, no framework exists which seeks to support overcoming these constraints for the architectural design process while simultaneously bringing knowledge of fabrication, materials selection, and modular construction to the early …