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Keeping a Roof Overhead : An Examination of Housing Strategies Among Low-Income White Families in Rural Trailer Parks

Creator:

Barrett-Rivera, Brenda C.

Abstract:

Housing is a critical component of family life, however, keeping a safe and stable roof overhead is increasingly difficult for the approximately 21 million low-income families in the United States (Urban Institute, n.d.; U.S. Census, 2015). Low-income families struggle to keep a roof overhead within the context of rising housing...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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advisor, Kate MacTavish, for allowing me to work with this incredible ethnographic data. Thank you for