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In Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America's trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing public need. Singlewide considers the circumstances of families with school-age children in trailer parks serving whites in Illinois, Hispanics in New Mexico, and African Americans in North Carolina. By looking carefully at the daily lives of families who live side by side in rows of manufactured homes, Salamon and MacTavish draw conclusions about the importance of housing, community, and location in the families' dreams of opportunities and success as signified by eventually owning land and a conventional home. Working-poor rural families who engage with what Salamon and MacTavish call the "mobile home industrial complex" may become caught in an expensive trap starting with their purchase of a mobile home. A family that must site its trailer in a land-lease trailer park struggles to realize any of the anticipated benefits of homeownership. Seeking to break down stereotypes, Salamon and MacTavish reveal the important place that trailer parks hold within the United States national experience. In so doing, they attempt to integrate and normalize a way of life that many see as outside the mainstream, suggesting that families who live in trailer parks, rather than being "trailer trash," culturally resemble the parks' neighbors who live in conventional homes.

Housing, Rural --- Rural poor --- Mobile home parks --- Mobile home living --- Rural poverty --- Poor --- Trailer camps --- Home economics --- Mobile homes --- Van life --- Housing --- Economic conditions --- United States --- Rural conditions.

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"For aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners, the possibilities are limitless. The flexibility, freedom and cost-effectiveness that starting-up in the home offers means that more and more entrepreneurs are choosing this as the best location to agilely launch their business. Starting a Business from Home gives you the valuable advice you need on how to run a successful business from your own desk and, crucially, how to rise to the challenge of business expansion. Packed with practical advice, Starting a Business from Home covers how to research your market, business ownership and titles issues, raising money and managing your finances, building and operating a website, writing a business plan, preparing your accounts, taking your product to market and expanding overseas--all from your home. Exercises, end of chapter actions and technical resources in the appendices mean that this is the ultimate practical guide for home-based entrepreneurs. Case studies from around the world showcase best practice and provide inspirational stories from successful businesses that began in the home."--Amazon.com.

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Unleash the power of the ESP8266 and build a complete home automation system with it. About This Book Harness the power of the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip to build an effective Home Automation System Learn about the various ESP8266 modules Configuring the ESP8266 and making interesting home automation projects A step-by-step guide on the ESP8266 chip and how to convert your home into a smart home. Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at people who want to build connected and inexpensive home automation projects using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip, and to completely automate their homes. A basic understanding of the board would be an added advantage What You Will Learn Get, compile, install, and configure an MQTT server Use the Wi-Fi connectivity feature to control appliances remotely Control several home appliances using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip Control and monitor your home from the cloud using ESP8266 modules Stream real-time data from the ESP8266 to a server over WebSockets Create an Android mobile application for your project In Detail The ESP8266 is a low-cost yet powerful Wi-Fi chip that is becoming more popular at an alarming rate, and people have adopted it to create interesting projects. With this book, you will learn to create and program home automation projects using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip. You will learn how to build a thermostat to measure and adjust the temperature accordingly and how to build a security system using the ESP8266. Furthermore, you will design a complete home automation system from sensor to your own cloud. You will touch base on data monitoring, controlling appliances, and security aspects. By the end of the book, you will understand how to completely control and monitor your home from the cloud and from a mobile application. You will be familiar with the capabilities of the ESP8266 and will have successfully designed a complete ready-to-sell home automated system. Style and approach A practical book that will cover independent home automation projects. Downloading the example code for this book. You can download the example code files for all Packt books you have purchased from your account at http://www.PacktPub.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit http://www.PacktPub.com/support and register to have the code file.

Home automation. --- Home computer networks. --- Wireless LANs. --- Wi-Fi LANs --- WiFi LANs --- Wireless local area networks --- WLANs (Wireless LANs) --- Local area networks (Computer networks) --- Wireless communication systems --- HMNs (Computer networks) --- Home area networks (Computer networks) --- Home media networks (Computer networks) --- Home multimedia networks (Computer networks) --- Home networks (Computer networks) --- Large family networks (Computer networks) --- Small office/home office networks (Computer networks) --- Home automation --- Dwellings --- Smart homes --- Electronic control --- Household electronics --- Intelligent buildings --- Automation

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With a growing population, rising housing costs and housing providers struggling to meet demand for affordable accommodation, more and more people in the UK find themselves sharing their living spaces with people from outside of their families at some point in their lives. Focusing on sharers in a wide variety of contexts and at all stages of the life course, Shared Housing, Shared Lives demonstrates how personal relationships are the key to whether shared living arrangements falter or flourish. Indeed, this book demonstrates how issues such as finances, domestic space and daily routines are all factors which can impact upon personal relationships and wider understandings of the home and privacy. By directing attention towards people and relationships rather than bricks and mortar, Shared Housing, Shared Lives is essential reading for students and researchers in fields such as sociology, housing studies, social policy, cultural anthropology and demography, as well as for researchers and practitioners working in these areas

Shared housing --- Domicile-sharing --- Home sharing --- Shared facilities (Housing) --- Housing --- Roommates --- Social psychology --- Sociology of environment --- United Kingdom