Affordable Housing Report
Preserving Manufactured Homes
as a Source of Affordable Housing
in Emma, North Carolina
Andre Comandon,
May 2025
Emma is a place built by and for its people. Development without protection puts our homes, culture, and future at risk. This report shows what we’re up against, and what we’ve built together to protect it.
Participatory Action Resources
PODER Emma’s
2023 Community Plan
2019 Research
ECOP formed a research team comprised of residents of the Emma Neighborhood and surveyed nearly 200 Emma residents to assess the quality of life of residents of mobile home parks, to understand risk factors for displacement of low income residents due to gentrification, and to begin the creation of an Emma Community Plan.
ONE PAGER
What we learned, what can we create as a community and focus and main needs.