ESTHER SULLIVAN
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My work has been consulted and covered in the following popular media:

The New Yorker, What Happens When Investment Firms Acquire Trailer Parks, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/15/what- happens-when-investment-firms-acquire-trailer-parks

The New York Times, Investors Are Buying Mobile Home Parks. Residents Are Paying a Price, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/us/mobile-home-park-ownership-costs.html

The Denver Post, Can Colorado keep mobile homes affordable? https://www.denverpost.com/2022/03/11/mobile-homes-rent-control-colorado-legislature/

The Washington Post, ‘We’re all afraid’: Massive rent increases hit mobile homes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/06/mobile-manufactured-home-rents-rising/

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Mobile Homes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCC8fPQOaxU

ROC USA Podcast, Episode 15: Talking Manufactured Insecurity with Author Esther Sullivan, https://rocusa.org/episodes/episode-15-talking-manufactured-insecurity-with-author-esther-sullivan/

The Washington Post, Extreme heat is killing people in Arizona's mobile homes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/07/02/arizona-mobile-home-deaths/

99% Invisible Podcast "Immobile Homes":  https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/immobile-homes/

Denver ABC Channel 7 News: https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/contact7/thornton-mobile-home-owners-fears-reflect-national-crisis

National Geographic, “National Geographic Explorer.” Season 10, Episode 8, “Mobile Home Economics:  http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/explorer/videos/mobile-home-economics/

Urban Institute, How Housing Matters: https://howhousingmatters.org/articles/different-state-policies-affect-evicted-manufactured-homeowners/

Colorado Public Radio and Colorado Matters Interview: http://www.cpr.org/news/story/the-denver-metros-hunger-for-housing-is-squeezing-its-few-mobile-home-parks

The Denverite: https://www.denverite.com/mobile-homes-35666/

The Houston Press: http://www.houstonpress.com/news/houstons-trailer-parks-offer-cheap-housing-but-leave-residents-vulnerable-9485409

The Atlantic  CityLab, covers Esther Sullivan's research in "The Other Affordable Housing Crisis": http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/09/the-other-affordable-housing-crisis/406405/

Follow-up in The Atlantic  CityLab, "One thing HUD Can Do To Help Save Trailer Parks": http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/09/one-thing-hud-can-do-to-save-trailer-parks/407395/

The Houston Chronicle discusses Sullivan's geospatial analysis of mobile home park closures in light of park redevelopment in Harris County:
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Mobile-home-park-in-The-Woodlands-to-share-space-6548604.php?t=a061673144438d9cbb&cmpid=email-premium

Contexts Magazine photo essay "Same trailer, different park" Esther Sullivan examines the dissolution of a community:  http://contexts.org/articles/same-trailer-different-park/

London School of Economics American Politics and Policy Blog. Esther Sullivan and Carlos Olmedo discuss housing informality in the US:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2014/07/15/away-from-cities-informal-developments-provide-affordable-housing-for-those-on-low-incomes-but-conditions-are-often-poor/

American Bar Foundation Author Spotlight: "Esther Sullivan, winner of LSI's 2013 Graduate Student Paper Competition, examines shifts in housing policies in the twenty first century in her article Halfway Homeowners: Eviction and Forced Relocation in a Florida Manufactured Home Park."
http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/publications/lawsocialinquiry/Author_Spotlight0.html

UT SOC BLOG post. "A Telling Two Days for Julian Castro" by Esther Sullivan.
http://sites.la.utexas.edu/utaustinsoc/2014/05/19/a-telling-two-days-for-julian-castro/

Esther Sullivan receives a 2014-2015 American Fellowship  from the American Association of University Women: "AAUW is excited to announce ... this exceptional group of women and nonprofit organizations will receive more than $3.7 million to carry on AAUW’s legacy of scholarship, research, and action."
http://www.aauw.org/article/aauw-announces-fellowships-and-grants-for-2014-15/

Esther Sullivan named 2012 Powers Fellow: "Esther’s research investigates the social impacts of residential relocation and eviction for individuals, families, and whole communities."
http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/powersfellows/fellows2012-13/esther_sullivan/


Esther Sullivan Awarded Moore Fellowship to Study Forced Relocation: “Esther Sullivan’s research will give a unique look at some of the most at-risk populations in Texas and continue the Moore Fellowship tradition of advancing public understanding of human adversity,”
http://www.hogg.utexas.edu/detail/258/2012MooreFellowship.html

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