“You cook, clean, eat, live, and love much the same in a manufactured home as you would living in one of millions of similar-sized site built houses in the U.S.A.” © MHLivingNews has used variations on that phrasing for years, adding the raft that according to U.S. Census Bureau data, at this time a new HUD Code manufactured home is about half the cost to build as a new conventionally constructed site built house. Those two statements are demonstrably true. In fact, one of the top articles for the Spring 2024 Top 30 on MHLivingNews is a collection of research reports produced by various third parties that routinely demonstrated those statements.
Those facts combined with others found on our site might make some wonder. Then why are manufactured homes underperforming during an affordable housing crisis? That a fair question, as even manufactured home professional Terry Decio said in a video recorded interview …