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ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
Volume 106, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103318
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Home thermal security; energy poverty; Energy equity; Extreme heat; Manufactured housing; Climate change
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This article contributes to theoretical understandings of the relationships among extreme heat vulnerability, energy equity and home thermal security. Based on three years of mixed-methods qualitative research among social service practitioners, landlords and residents of mobile and manufactured housing communities, the study finds that most mobile and manufactured housing residents are able to maintain some level of home thermal security.
This article contributes to theoretical understandings of the relationships among extreme heat vulnerability, energy equity and home thermal security (HTS) - the ability to maintain a home thermal environment consistent with basic health, social and financial needs. Based on three years of mixed-methods qualitative research among social service practitioners, landlords and residents of mobile and manufactured housing (MH) communities, we argue that thermal insecurity is a socially produced, rather than intrinsic, feature of MH. We use the thermal struggles of MH residents to illustrate how gaps in research, markets, landlord-tenant law, policy, and specific government programs overlap to produce MH as a site of hyper-exclusion from many tools used to mitigate and adapt to climate risk. We find that most MH residents, despite barriers and a warming climate, are able to maintain some level of HTS. We highlight the small-scale, improvisational strategies that households use to cope and adapt to the extreme temperatures. HTS is an achievement sustained by a variety of elements that cannot be reduced to simple metrics (e.g., presence of air conditioning). We conclude with a practical set of policy rec-ommendations as well as a call for an expansive climate finance that includes the improvisational practices of excluded groups as innovations worth learning from and investing in.
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