Manufactured Housing News

Following are excerpts from News Provided BY Clayton Flexible Zoning Policies for Off-site Built Housing Can Help More Families in U.S. Cities Clayton, a leading national builder of single-family attainable housing, partnered with Georgia Manufactured Housing Association to unveil a new urban infill project showcasing two Clayton Built CrossMod homes developed by Iron Horse Communities,...

Cavco Industries, Inc. was recently named to the Forbes America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies List for 2023. Forbes creates this list each year to recognize the top 100 midsize companies (companies with market value between $2 billion and $10 billion) and rank them based on earnings growth, sales growth, return on equity and total stock return...

Source: Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) – Monthly Economic Report – In October 2023, 8,383 new manufactured homes were shipped, an increase of 431 homes or 5.5% percent compared to September 2023, and a decrease of 302 home or 3.5% compared to October 2022. Compared with the same month last year, shipments of both single section...

Source: – The following contains excerpts from an op-ed posted in the New Hampshire Union Leader by Sarah Marchant, who is the Community Loan Fund/s chief of staff and vice-president of ROC-NH. She lives in Brookline. Marchant’s suggestions in resolving New Hampshire’s housing crisis is not dissimilar to other states in the U.S. Many think...

State lawmakers pass legislation seeking to expand manufactured housing Stable housing is essential for improving economic mobility, strengthening credit ratings and cultivating asset building.Yet for millions of households, securing an affordable home is an elusive goal. Due to their low building cost, year-round construction and relative price points, manufactured housing has emerged as a strategy...

More than 21 million people live in approximately 8-12 million “mobile homes” or manufactured homes in the U.S. It is not easily determined how many of those homes are “mobile homes,” built before 1976, or today’s high quality manufactured homes built to high quality standards mandated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development aka...

Manufactured homes have become a popular and favorable option when purchasing a home. Manufactured homes are prefabricated structures built in a factory with all the amenities, design, refinements, energy efficiency, and fire and windy safety features that are at least equal and often superior to a new site built home. Manufactured homes are constructed in...

Today’s modern manufactured homes will meet the criteria for “everything a home should be,” offering quality, value, safety, amenities, energy efficiency and appearance; and will have a cost up to 50% less than a comparable custom site-built home, and is the perfect choice for all age generations across the U.S. That being said, the following...

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get” – Warren Buffett In all respects of construction and all other measurements, as delineated below, a new modern manufactured home is equal or superior in every respect to a site-built home at a cost of about 50% less. It may seem odd to “justify” quality...

High mortgage rates, lack of supply and elevated prices of traditional site-built homes have made the dream of owning a home for a lot of first-time buyers out of reach. But some experts suggest that one option that could help to ameliorate the challenge of affordability in the housing market – manufactured homes, which cost...