Affordable housing solutions include not just looking at the number of homes available and how to build more, but how to make sure that existing homes are secure, and stay affordable, livable, and accessible. Manufactured Home Communities (MHCs) provide one… Read More »An Essential Part of Affordable Housing Solutions
Manufactured Home Communities MYTH: Manufactured and mobile homes are trailers. FACT: Trailers are towable by cars. In the 1950s, a post-war housing shortage called for factory-built homes. In 1976, HUD set national construction standards. In 1980, Congress required the term… Read More »Myths vs. Facts
The Myth and Its Consequences Today’s manufactured homes are not mobile. They are permanent, factory-built structuresplaced on fixed foundations and hooked up to utilities—just like site-built homes. But theoutdated label of “mobile home” persists in public discourse, policymaking, and industrymarketing,… Read More »Not Mobile