Manufactured Housing: Quality and AffordabilityAbstractMy family has been in the factory-built housing business since 1953 and has helped thousands of people with their housing needs. The HUD-certified manufactured home is our primary housing option today and allows us to help many people. When I started in this business in 1974 with my father, there was no single national building code standard for manufactured housing. Building codes also varied significantly among States and localities. HUD's mandate and our industry commitment has always been to supply quality, affordable housing for America. A cooperative effort between HUD and our industry in 1976 created a single preemptive national manufactured housing building code. This joint venture established a single standard of excellence in affordable housing and created the HUD-certified manufactured home that currently provides many Americans with their only opportunity to achieve the goal of quality, affordable homeownership. In 1994 manufactured homes accounted for 33 percent of all new single-family housing starts and reflect the positive results of the HUD code alliance.Manufactured Housing: Quality and Affordability (*.pdf, 90 KB)
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