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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"mobile homes"”.
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Accessibility and usability of mobile homes for the elderly
… to determine the accessibility and usability of mobile homes for elderly residents. A sample of 50 elderly persons was interviewed with an instrument developed by researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University who conducted the project entitled "Mobile Homes Accessibility and …
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Taxation and regulation of mobile homes - barriers to growth and development of the mobile home industry.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1969. M.C.P.
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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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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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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 rural elderly: personal innovativeness toward housing and acceptance of nontraditional housing types
… acceptance of nontraditional housing types: mobile homes, apartments or townhouses, solar houses, earth-sheltered houses, or a combination of these four housing types.
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Trailers and Mental Health: An Exploration of Psychological Distress Amongst Mobile Home Dwellers
This thesis examines whether residing in a mobile home predicts higher rates of psychological distress. Using combined data from the General Social Survey (1994-2006), I differentiate housing into four distinct categories: mobile homes, conventional homes, apartments, and townhouses. After looking …
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Towards a post-industrial architecture : design and construction of houses for the information age
… factory-produced house conjures images of mobile homes and cheap construction rather than innovative modern design. At the same time, the typical suburban single-family unit offers little in the way of innovation or individual expression. Land developers, rather than architects or planners, …
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Wind flow characteristics of multi-vortex tornadoes and their wind effects on residential houses
… interaction is expanded to manufactured or mobile homes, which are more vulnerable during tornado striking compared to permanent homes, to bridge a knowledge gap"--Abstract, page iv.
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Trends and Diversification in the Factory-Built Home Industry
… 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 their …
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Manufactured housing: an assessment of community attitudes
… 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 characteristics, …
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FROM CAMPING TO PERMANENCE: A HISTORY OF MONTANA MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES
… 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 escape its mobile …
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FROM CAMPING TO PERMANENCE: A HISTORY OF MONTANA MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES
… 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 escape its mobile …