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Mid-West Mobile Home Parks: An Emerging Residential Settlement Alternative
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Ties That Bind: The Informal Social Networks of Rural African-American Mobile -Home Park Families
Mobile-home parks represent a relatively new, but increasingly common community form for the nation and the South, in particular. For rural African-Americans families of modest means, mobile homes are an affordable option for achieving homeownership. While homeownership should be an asset-building …
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The Social Construction of Poverty and the Meaning of Deprivation: An Ethnographic Exploration of Mobile Home Park Residents
Poverty is an important socio-economic problem with serious negative consequences for consumers worldwide. Currently, there are approximately 57 million Americans considered as the "marginal poor" and 37 million Americans categorized as the "extreme poor" (Newman and Chen 2007). The nuances between …
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Food Handling Practices Among Independent-living Elderly
… given to 276 seniors, aged 55 to 90, from ten mobile home parks randomly selected from San Bernardino and Riverside counties. As an indicator of possible foodborne illness, the questionnaire asked for the number of abrupt gastrointestinal episodes experienced in the previous six to nine months. …