Words Matter: How Terminology Shapes Policy for Manufactured Home Communities (MHCs)
Why Say Manufactured Home (Not “Mobile Home” or “Trailer”)? Why Say Manufactured Home Community (Not “Park”)? Why Say Landowner or Business Owner (Not “Park Owner” or “Community Owner”)? • MHCs Represent Shared Investments—a Hybrid Model. There are dual stakeholders—homeowners own… Read More »Words Matter: How Terminology Shapes Policy for Manufactured Home Communities (MHCs)
An Essential Part of Affordable Housing Solutions
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
Myths vs. Facts
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
Not Mobile
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
The solutions are clear. The path is obstructed.
In 2004, the AARP’s Public Policy Institute (PPI) and the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) collaborated to develop a model state statute aimed at protecting residents of manufactured housing communities. Their joint publication, Manufactured Housing Community Tenants: Shifting the Balance… Read More »The solutions are clear. The path is obstructed.