MANUFACTURING RECOVERY
SUPPORT FOR MANUFACTURED HOUSING COMMUNITIES FOLLOWING THE 2025 LOS ANGELES FIRES
Project Overview and Goals
In January 2025, wildfires broke out across Los Angeles County. In their wake, three manufactured housing communities (MHCs) found themselves burdened with insufficient post-disaster relief and recovery assistance.
Our goal is to conduct research in support of manufactured housing communities impacted by the 2025 Los Angeles Fires. Supported by resident surveys, interviews, policy analyses, and geospatial analyses, the resources here provide critical assessments and accounts of the post-wildfire experiences of manufactured housing residents and communities.
This research project is a collaboration between the Just Environments Lab at UC-Berkeley and Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services, Inc. We are funded by a 2025-2026 Collaborative Disaster Recovery Research Seed Grant from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. If you have any questions or suggestions as the research progresses, please feel free to reach out to project leads: Dr. Danielle Rivera (dzrivera@berkeley.edu) and Ryan Sears (ryan@nphsinc.org).
Below, you will find three types of community resources being generated over the course of 2026:
Research Briefs
Public Data Dashboards
“Know Your Rights” MHC Resources (with After the Fire)
MHC Research Briefs
As a critical part of our project’s community outreach, we share our findings as quickly as possible through these research briefs. The briefs are high-level, short summaries of our findings written for a public audience to help promote knowledge of MHCs and their post-fire recovery experiences. As they are available, they will be shared here, with the first briefs arriving in April 2026 and the final arriving in January 2027.
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ACCESS HERE (Updated: April 2026)
Covers results from our geospatial (map-based) analyses of manufactured housing communities in Los Angeles County, and their histories with wildfires and wildfire risk.
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ACCESS HERE (Updated: April 2026)
Covers results from our first survey (from February and March 2026) of manufactured housing residents impacted by the Palisades Fire.
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ACCESS HERE (Scheduled: May 2026)
Covers results from policy analyses of relevant post-disaster housing policies and programs relative to the unique tenure situation of manufactured housing.
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ACCESS HERE (Scheduled: July 2026)
Covers results from our second survey (from June 2026) of manufactured housing residents impacted by the Palisades Fire.
Data Dashboards
In addition to our Research Briefs, we also maintain a series of data dashboards and StoryMaps to track the recovery process in manufactured housing communities. These allow the research team to share key data collected or assembled during the project.
Dashboard: Manufactured Housing Communities and their Risks in California
This map and data dashboard layers publicly-accessible data on the locations of manufactured housing communities in California against historic wildfires and current environmental hazards.
StoryMap: After the Palisades Fire - Manufactured Housing Community Recovery
A StoryMap stitches together different data sources and maps to integrate all of our findings into a visual narrative of the state of manufactured housing recovery after the Palisades Fire.
Dashboard: Los Angeles County - Manufactured Housing Communities and Fire Hazards
This map and data dashboard shows publicly-accessible data on the locations of manufactured housing communities in Los Angeles and surrounding counties to highlight their current recovery struggles.
Know Your Rights!
Resulting from our analyses of both disaster and housing policies, these resources will provide manufactured housing residents with post-disaster guidance. Developed in concert with After the Fire, these will provide MHC residents with the resources to know their rights in post-wildfire situations.
Arriving May 2026!