The ‘people’ side of factory-built homes Make no mistake about it, the manufactured housing industry is also a people business. A lot has been written about the advantages of having a home built in a factory with all the protection of a factory roof and the modern technology that is housed in the plant … and it’s all true. The industry also has a professional army of men and women who run the plants and use the modern technology to
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CFPB Report Validates Manufactured Housing Industry Calls for Regulatory Relief Bureau’s findings show potentially significant loss of credit available to consumers and disparate impact of regulations on manufactured housing over site-built counterparts Washington, DC—On September 30, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its report Manufactured-housing consumer finance in the United States to provide “a comprehensive understanding of manufactured housing and its financing.” The report highlights differences in costs and financing available between the site-built and manufactured housing markets, as
Read more →CityScapes at Mills of Carthage When the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, decided to revitalize the neighborhood known as Carthage by relocating an industrial plant, it chose to redevelop the site with new, affordable housing. However, like countless other cities across the nation, it faced a major dilemma. Local homebuilders were either unable or unwilling to build homes on the site that met the pricing and architectural guidelines established by city officials. That’s when the manufactured and modular housing industry stepped
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