Arbitration. Fifth Circuit Holds Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act Claims Arbitrable despite Contrary Agency Interpretation. Walton v. Rose Mobile Homes LLC, 298 F.3d 470 (5th Cir. 2002)

2003 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 1201 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Homes

Mobile Homes: Instant Suburbia or Transportable Slums?

1968 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Mills French ◽  
Jeffrey K. Hadden
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Homes

scholarly journals Sustainable and Affordable Prefabricated Construction: Developing a Natural, Recycled, and Recyclable Mobile Home

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8296
Author(s):  
Carlo Berizzi ◽  
Salvatore Nirta ◽  
Gaia Nerea Terlicher ◽  
Luca Trabattoni
Keyword(s):  
Assembly Line ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Mobile Home ◽  
Ecological Sensitivity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mobile Homes ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Alternative Materials ◽  
Main Attraction

Outdoor tourism is a form of outdoor holiday that is growing rapidly today, and that stands out from other forms of tourism for its immediate relationship with the landscape which becomes for the tourist the main attraction of the holiday intended as a break from ordinary urban life. Outdoor tourism today represents a growing percentage in the tourism sector, in which mobile homes are the real players. Despite the considerable use of this product in open-air accommodations located in relevant landscapes, there is still no sensitivity in the constructive approach and in the choice of materials in terms of sustainability. In the open-air tourism sector, the lack of ecological sensitivity results from two levels of application: one regarding the whole settlement and the public spaces of outdoor accommodations and one regarding the mobile unit from the design to the production process. This paper will provide some practical strategies to introduce the ecological theme in the mobile home for the tourism sector. The research aims to analyze the production system of mobile homes in order to introduce alternative materials within the existing assembly line. The research demonstrates the possibility of a product being sustainable both economically and environmentally, healthy, and well-integrated with landscape by adopting an approach that makes it possible to use the same assembly line currently in use.

Estimating Housing Mortality with Standard Loss Curves

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 1521-1530 ◽  
Author(s):  
M E Gleeson
Keyword(s):  
Survival Data ◽  
Statistical Models ◽  
Life Tables ◽  
Time To Failure ◽  
Truncated Data ◽  
Mobile Homes ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
Tests Of Fit

Tests of fit using one set of data on mobile homes and another on conventional housing indicate that standard loss curves, such as the Pearl-Reed and Weibull curves, can be used to approximate housing survivorship functions. This finding opens up the possibility of analytical work using standard curves and the application of time-to-failure statistical models that are based on such curves. Tests of fit of standard curves to the two housing survivorship functions using truncated data are also encouraging, suggesting means of estimating housing mortality and computing life tables with incomplete cohort survival data.

‘Where to live after retirement’

1977 ◽  
Vol 15 (21) ◽  
pp. 84-84
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Sheltered Housing ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Residential Home ◽  
Mobile Homes ◽  
Climbing Stairs

This recent Consumer Publication stresses that the decision where to retire needs to be thought about carefully and in good time. It discusses whether to move, or to stay put and adapt an existing house to be easier and safer to live in, for advancing years may make some activities more difficult - climbing stairs, carrying coal, driving, shopping. The book advises on grants and other help to make any necessary adaptations, deals with the position of private and council tenants, describes sheltered housing schemes, granny flats, mobile homes and discusses the choice of a residential home for elderly people. Some sources of help or information are listed.

scholarly journals “Trailer Trash” Stigma and Belonging in Florida Mobile Home Parks

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarethe Kusenbach
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mobile Home ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Mobile Homes ◽  
Community Belonging

<p>In the United States, residents of mobile homes and mobile home communities are faced with cultural stigmatization regarding their places of living. While common, the “trailer trash” stigma, an example of both housing and neighborhood/territorial stigma, has been understudied in contemporary research. Through a range of discursive strategies, many subgroups within this larger population manage to successfully distance themselves from the stigma and thereby render it inconsequential (Kusenbach, 2009). But what about those residents—typically white, poor, and occasionally lacking in stability—who do not have the necessary resources to accomplish this? This article examines three typical responses by low-income mobile home residents—here called resisting, downplaying, and perpetuating—leading to different outcomes regarding residents’ sense of community belonging. The article is based on the analysis of over 150 qualitative interviews with mobile home park residents conducted in West Central Florida between 2005 and 2010.</p>

scholarly journals Finescale Assessment of Mobile Home Tornado Vulnerability in the Central and Southeast United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Strader ◽  
Walker S. Ashley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mobile Home ◽  
Socioeconomic Vulnerability ◽  
Mobile Homes ◽  
Emergency Managers ◽  
Disaster Potential ◽  
Social Vulnerabilities

Abstract Research has illustrated that tornado disaster potential and impact severity are controlled by hazard risk and underlying physical and social vulnerabilities. Previous vulnerability studies have suggested that an important driver of disaster consequence is the type of housing affected by tornadic winds. This study employs a Monte Carlo tornado simulation tool; mobile home location information derived from finescale, land-parcel data; and census enumerations of socioeconomic vulnerability factors to assess the tornado impact probability for one of the most wind hazard–susceptible demographics in the United States: mobile home residents. Comparative analyses between Alabama and Kansas are employed to highlight regional (i.e., Southeast vs Great Plains) differences in mobile home tornado risk, exposure, and vulnerability. Tornado impact potential on mobile homes is 4.5 times (350%) greater in Alabama than in Kansas because Alabama, in comparison to Kansas, is represented by 1) a greater number of mobile homes and 2) a more sprawling mobile home distribution. Findings reveal that the Southeast’s mobile home residents are one of the most socioeconomically and demographically marginalized populations in the United States and are more susceptible to tornado impact and death than illustrated in prior research. Policy makers, engineers, and members of integrated warning teams (i.e., National Weather Service, media, emergency managers, and first responders) should use these findings to initiate a dialogue and construct interdisciplinary actions aimed at improving societal and individual resilience before, during, and after hazardous weather events.

scholarly journals Vulnerability due to Nocturnal Tornadoes

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 795-807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walker S. Ashley ◽  
Andrew J. Krmenec ◽  
Rick Schwantes
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mobile Homes ◽  
The Past ◽  
High Fatality Rate ◽  
Potential Break ◽  
Tornado Warning ◽  
Dissemination System

Abstract This study investigates the human vulnerability caused by tornadoes that occurred between sunset and sunrise from 1880 to 2007. Nocturnal tornadoes are theorized to enhance vulnerability because they are difficult to spot and occur when the public tends to be asleep and in weak building structures. Results illustrate that the nocturnal tornado death rate over the past century has not shared the same pace of decline as those events transpiring during the daytime. From 1950 to 2005, a mere 27.3% of tornadoes were nocturnal, yet 39.3% of tornado fatalities and 42.1% of killer tornado events occurred at night. Tornadoes during the overnight period (local midnight to sunrise) are 2.5 times as likely to kill as those occurring during the daytime hours. It is argued that a core reason why the national tornado fatality toll has not continued to decrease in the past few decades is due to the vulnerability to these nocturnal events. This vulnerability is magnified when other factors such as escalating mobile (or “manufactured”) home stock and an increasing and spreading population are realized. Unlike other structure types that show no robust demarcation between nocturnal and daytime fatalities, nearly 61% of fatalities in mobile homes take place at night revealing this housing stock’s distinct nocturnal tornado vulnerability. Further, spatial analysis illustrates that the American South’s high nocturnal tornado risk is an important factor leading to the region’s high fatality rate. The investigation emphasizes a potential break in the tornado warning dissemination system utilized currently in the United States.

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