Singlewide: Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park

by Katherine Mactavish and Sonya Salamon

Book Overview

In Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America's trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing public need. Singlewide considers the circumstances of families with school-age children in trailer parks serving whites in Illinois,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501713221
• ISBN13: 9781501713224
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher