Browsing by Subject "manufactured homes"
Item Carver County Mobile Home Parks Needs Assessment and Outreach(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Nelson, Alexa; Laderer, Mary; Hintz, Stephanie; Starr, Renee; Araye, Faisa; Beede, Tiffaney; Dahlberg, Elana; Ninham, Lydia; Ries, Caitlin; Shafer, Kiya; Vu, Sohale; Casey, Bernadette Genis; Gustafson, Marisa; Coppersmith, Emily; Zeon, Philip; Henry, MarkieThis project was completed as part of the 2015-2016 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with Carver County. Carver County is home to five manufactured home parks, and the County's Public Health Department was interested in ways to better engage with residents of the parks around health, social service, and other needs. The goal of the project was to determine barriers to engagement and strategies for getting past those barriers. Carver County project lead Tami LaGow collaborated with three teams of students in SW 8551: Advanced Community Practice--Assessment, Organizing, and Advocacy, to determine barriers and develop strategies and recommendations. Each student team focused on a different manufactured home community in Carver County. The students' aggregated final report and a poster are available.Item Healthy Homes: Community Engagement for Healthy Mobile Home Communities(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2015) Cowgill, Jono; Ferguson, Vince; Hartmann, Joseph; McGuire Brigl, ChloeThis project was completed as part of a year-long partnership between Carver County and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). Carver County Public Health staff had identified health disparities among residents at the Riverview Terrace manufactured home park in Chaska, including lack of access to healthy food or safe opportunities for physical activity. Staff wanted to investigate other potential health concerns among residents of the manufactured home park, as well as inform them about Carver County’s Community Health Improvement Plan. The goal of this project was to develop a community engagement and public participation plan that would help build relationships between residents of Riverview Terrace and Carver County staff, and that would identify health priorities within the community. In collaboration with Carver County project lead Tami LaGow, a team of students in PA 5253: Designing Planning and Participation Processes, developed a community engagement plan with culturally appropriate interventions and communication strategies focused on community health and the Community Health Improvement Plan. The students' final report from the project is available.Item Mobile Home Communities of Carver County: A Needs Assessment(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Rosner, SamanthaThis project was completed as part of the 2015-2016 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with Carver County. In 2014, Carver County received Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) funding to improve engagement with residents of manufactured home communities. The goal of this project was to determine the current demographics and health needs of residents in four manufactured home communities located in Carver County. Carver County project lead Tami LaGow collaborated with a master of public health student in the Public Health Administration and Policy program to conduct focus groups in the mobile home parks. These focus groups yielded strategies and recommendations for Carver County Public Health to better engage with residents, including creating programming based on the interests of residents, forming relationships with residents, forming relationships with social and ethnic communities in Carver County, and making time for genuine engagement. The students' final report and poster are available.Item The Persistence of Residential Energy Insecurity in Manufactured Housing of Minnesota: A Grounded Theory Study of the Social, Policy, and Structural Dimensions(2016-05-11) Matter, Kathleen JIn the United States, residents of manufactured homes built before 2000 have, on average, an energy burden range that is double that of residents for all other housing types built before 2000 (7.15% - 8.94% compared to 4.00% - 4.44%, respectively) (“2009 Residential Energy Consumption Survey Microdata,” 2013). This disproportionately high average energy burden, in combination with a higher average energy expenditure and consumption per square foot, represent disparities in energy equity for low-income Americans. Given that household energy is a necessity, these disparities place manufactured home residents at a greater risk of being unable to affordably and efficiently heat, cool, and power their home, which is part of a phenomenon referred to as Residential Energy Insecurity. Direct and indirect strains stemming from this have severe health consequences like choosing between heating a home or buying food, a concept referred to as “heat or eat” (Hernández, Aratani, & Jiang, 2014; Brunner et al., 2012; Harrison & Popke, 2011). For more than three decades, two federal programs (the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program and the Weatherization Assistance Program) have addressed these dimensions of energy insecurity, yet the disparity in energy burdens persists.