My work has been consulted and covered in the following 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 Washington Post:
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Mobile Homes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCC8fPQOaxU
The Denver Post:
Radio Canada. “These American Mobile Homes Fund Our Pensions.”
Shelterforce. “Nonprofit to Close Mobile Home Community to Build a Park” https://shelterforce.org/2024/05/10/nonprofit-to-close-mobile-home-community-to-build-a-park/
The Texas Tribune. “They saved to buy their own mobile homes. Then the land beneath them was sold to an investor https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/27/texas-mobile-home-parks-austin-housing/
The Grist. “After the winter storm, a Texas mobile home community’s nightmare was far from over.” By Alexandria Herr. March 31, 2021: https://grist.org/equity/texas-freeze-mobile-home-park-water-nightmare/
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
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 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/
- “Extreme heat is killing people in Arizona’s mobile homes.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/07/02/arizona-mobile-home-deaths/
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Mobile Homes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCC8fPQOaxU
The Denver Post:
- “Can Colorado keep mobile homes affordable?” https://www.denverpost.com/2022/03/11/mobile-homes-rent- control-colorado-legislature/
- “Raise rent repeatedly, remove amenities: The core tenets of Colorado’s Mobile Home University and the people who suffer." https://www.denverpost.com/2021/09/05/mobile-home-university-rv-horizons-impact-communities-frank-rolfe-dave-reynolds/
Radio Canada. “These American Mobile Homes Fund Our Pensions.”
- Print: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numerique/9590/maisons-mobiles-caisse-depot-rhp-properties
- Video: https://youtu.be/T_Edc959C_E?si=G6LOPrheXutbkelf
Shelterforce. “Nonprofit to Close Mobile Home Community to Build a Park” https://shelterforce.org/2024/05/10/nonprofit-to-close-mobile-home-community-to-build-a-park/
The Texas Tribune. “They saved to buy their own mobile homes. Then the land beneath them was sold to an investor https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/27/texas-mobile-home-parks-austin-housing/
The Grist. “After the winter storm, a Texas mobile home community’s nightmare was far from over.” By Alexandria Herr. March 31, 2021: https://grist.org/equity/texas-freeze-mobile-home-park-water-nightmare/
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