Mobile homes are affordable—but they’re also extremely dangerous during heat waves and other natural disasters.
But these policies don’t address the fact that mobile home residents are more vulnerable to all types of natural hazards than those in other housing types. This heightened vulnerability is so well documented that mobile homes are included in numerous natural hazard vulnerability indices. Mobile homes offer comparatively poor structural integrity and residents are often socially vulnerable.
And even if they survive, mobile home residents risk losing their homes due to disaster-related damages, thereby also losing their primary asset. With climate change increasing the frequency, severity, and geographic scope of such hazards, mobile home residents will be on the front lines everywhere. A growing supply of mobile homes may, therefore, have the unintended consequence of increasing risks to health and well-being for some of the nation’s most economically precarious.
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