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Japan might have the world’s most developed factory-built housing market. For various economic and cultural reasons, prefab home manufacturers have been doing business in Japan since the 1960s. [...]

The City of Missoula and a local nonprofit have a plan to place six manufactured homes that went unused at the Bakken oil fields on a vacant lot next to the Missoula Food Bank as a little [...]

Kid Rock, the singer whose career has spanned rap, hard rock, and country music, has recently finished writing a country song titled “Tennessee Mountain Top” at his own Tennessee mountain top [...]

Manufactured Housing is America’s largest single source of affordable home ownership. But manufactured housing, often located in mobile home parks, is kind of the Rodney Dangerfield of housing—it [...]

The manufactured home community represents one of the last bastions of affordable housing in the nation. Yet, companies have built only a handful of new manufactured home parks in the last 10 [...]

Manufactured homes are undoubtedly the most misunderstood and mischaracterized form of housing in the United States, a fact that is underscored by our “Top Five Truths.” There’s [...]

Old myths and stereotypes surrounding prefabricated housing are obsolete and misleading. The lack of affordable homeownership has reached crisis level in the country. Lower income wage earners [...]

The abundance of Texas manufactured homes is increasing, and we just discovered (pardon the pun) a new Texas retailer that is changing the game: Discover Modular Homes. Texas is one of many [...]

How have politicians and institutions systematically profited from the stigmas attached to prefabricated housing? Politicians and institutions of every persuasion have long looked upon the mobile [...]

Amarillo, Texas, like other municipalities across the country, suffers a seriously diminished inventory of affordable housing. As a direct result, increasingly more of Amarillo’s residents [...]