Manufactured Homes

This month HUD has settled two Fair Housing cases.  In the first case, it was alleged that the owners and operators of certain rental units discriminated against families with children “by [...]

A major challenge facing owners and operators of manufactured home communities involves reasonable accommodations for service and assistance animals under the Fair Housing Act.  Sixty percent of [...]

In a recent blog by Brynn Barger appearing in MHINSIDER Magazine titled “The Shift: Tiny House Builders Moving Toward Manufactured Homes,” echoing the seemingly imminent demise of the “tiny home [...]

In 1908, Sears began a new adventure, radical for their time, selling prefabricated, “kit” houses. These mail-order homes arrived complete with framing, finishing, fixtures and all, with an [...]

Perhaps you have contemplated the purchase of a new modern manufactured home and are not sure if you should locate the home in a manufactured home community (also known as a “mobile home” park). [...]

With the homeownership rate at 64%, clearly Americans value having a stake in where they live. The U.S.A. is the only country in the world where a majority of its citizens can experience the [...]

“Don’t knock manufactured homes or their value to America” proclaims Suzanne Anarde in an op-ed published in the Opinion section of USA Today on Friday, November 24, 2017. Following excerpts from [...]

“From whom you purchase is equally as important as the home you buy” –  (author unknown)   Davis Homes of Mt.Pleasant, Iowa, a second-generation family-owned and operated manufactured [...]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic”  – Arthur C. Clarke (author)   It is likely, but difficult to quantify, that a majority of the approximately 300,000 new [...]

As oft-reported here at ManufacturedHomes.com, the nation is experiencing a serious and continuous affordable home crisis that has, in essence, put “site-built” homeownership out of reach for [...]