Affordable but Marginalized: A Sociospatial and Regulatory Analysis of Mobile Home Parks in the Houston Metropolitan Area
Affordable but Marginalized: A Sociospatial and Regulatory Analysis of Mobile Home Parks in the Houston Metropolitan Area
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负担得起但边缘化：休斯顿都市区移动房屋公园的社会空间和监管分析
DOI：
10.1080/01944363.2021.1952477
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发表时间：
2022
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5.6
通讯作者：
Rumbach, Andrew
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Sullivan, Esther;Makarewicz, Carrie;Rumbach, Andrew
问题，研究策略和findingsMobile家庭公园（MHPs）是美国无补贴经济适用房的主要来源，但在规划研究和实践中知之甚少。在这里，我们提出了在美国大都市地区的MHP的第一个和最全面的研究之一的结果。我们定位和空间分析MHP在休斯敦（得克萨斯州）大都市统计区，比较社会人口，建筑环境和环境暴露的人口普查块组MHP土地的份额较高的块组较少或没有公园。我们通过对大都市统计区132个管辖区的政府文件进行编码，研究了土地使用法规与MHP位置之间的关系。我们发现，MHP是区域住房系统的重要组成部分，位于人口更多样化，社会经济地位较低和家庭规模较大的地区。MHP集中在相对靠近中央商务区的中等城市化地区，住房成本较低，就业机会适中。他们聚集在其他MHP附近，在交通和城市设施较少的地区，更容易受到环境危害。我们证明，MHP的位置与排他性的土地使用法规，这表明未来的公园可能会在具有显着的不平等的地区。为practiceMHP的外卖是很难分析，因为他们没有确定在典型的规划数据来源，如美国人口普查。规划部门应该使用替代方法，如我们的研究中所描述的，来绘制和规划MHP。大多数主要城市和大都市地区都面临着负担得起的住房危机，我们在研究中观察到的反MHP监管立场涉及区域公平。MHPs集中在具有重大环境危害的地区，这表明可能需要采取规划行动，以保护这些居民免受未来洪水事件的影响。
Problem, research strategy and findingsMobile home parks (MHPs) are a major source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the United States but are poorly understood in planning research and practice. Here we present findings of one of the first and most comprehensive studies of MHPs in a U.S. metropolitan area. We located and spatially analyzed MHPs in the Houston (TX) metropolitan statistical area, comparing the sociodemographics, built environment, and environmental exposure of census block groups with higher shares of MHP land to block groups with fewer or no parks. We examined the relationship between land use regulations and the location of MHPs by coding government documents for the 132 jurisdictions in the metropolitan statistical area. We found that MHPs are an important component of the regional housing system and are located in areas with more diverse populations, lower socioeconomic status, and larger families. MHPs are concentrated in moderately urbanized areas relatively close to the central business district with lower housing costs and moderate job opportunities. They are clustered near other MHPs in areas with less access to transportation and urban amenities and greater exposure to environmental hazards. We demonstrate that the location of MHPs is associated with exclusionary land use regulations, which indicates future parks will likely be in areas with significant inequalities.Takeaways for practiceMHPs are difficult to analyze because they are not identified in typical sources of planning data like the U.S. Census. Planning departments should use alternative methods, like those described in our study, to map and plan for MHPs. Most major cities and metropolitan regions are facing an affordable housing crisis, and the anti-MHP regulatory stance we observed in our study is concerning for regional equity. The concentration of MHPs in areas with significant environmental hazards indicates that planning actions are likely necessary to protect these residents from future flood events.