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Mobile Home Park Community Educational Service Costs and Revenues in New Hampshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Richard L. Tichenor
Affiliation:
Rural Development Service, U.S.D.A., Institute of Natural and Environmental Resources, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
Edmund F. Jansen Jr.
Affiliation:
Rural Development Service, U.S.D.A., Institute of Natural and Environmental Resources, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
Nelson L. Le Ray
Affiliation:
Rural Development Service, U.S.D.A., Institute of Natural and Environmental Resources, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
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In communities where average family incomes are low relative to the costs of conventional housing – a common situation in New Hampshire – the services of adequate housing are, in effect, unavailable to many resident. If this service is to be available to low income residents, the public sector must provide public housing, or encourage private provision of low cost housing. Yet, instead of encouraging such housing, many New Hampshire communities ban or restrict the most common form of low cost housing – the mobile home.

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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council, Morgantown, West Virginia, June 25–27. The research upon which this report is based was conducted under Northeast Regional Research Project NE-77, Community Services for Nonmetropolitan People in the Northeast, and New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Project Hatch 210, Community Services for Nonmetropolitan People in the Northeast. The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Rural Development Service; or the U.S. Department of Agriculture or cooperating agencies. Published with the approval of the Director of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station as Scientific Contribution No. 676.

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