

Marketing Manufactured To The Professional Class
Much of the manufactured housing industry promotes itself by way of the affordability factor, by appealing to the fact that manufactured,...
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Mobile Home Park Retrofit
Mobile home parks [ parks constructed prior to the 1976 HUD code ] were often laid out as diagonal lots around 125' long x 40' wide or...
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The Courtyard Singlewide Duplex
A lot of 55+ communities feature the two bedroom duplex. This keeps home prices down and makes the point that they're intended for empty...
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How Offsite Displaces Site Built In The Suburban Subdivision
The first murmurs of discontent with suburban housing in the US were heard in the 1970s in California. The positive idea of the suburbs...
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Sign Value V Use Value Vis A Vis Manufactured Housing
By the time Thorstein Veblen appeared on the scene late in the 19th century, the free market free enterprise system had transformed the...
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The Manufactured Home As The Total Work Of Art ?
Architecture critic Neil Levine said of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian homes, '....moving into a Usonian was like checking into a hotel. ...
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How Manufactured Housing Becomes Mainstream
California is leading the charge at the political level to help manufactured compete on a level playing field with site built, ending ...
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Design for a 4 Bed 3 Bath Doublewide
In a previous post I drew up plans for a 3 Bed 2 Bath Doublewide of around 1,650 sq ft. In this post I up the stakes, adding another bed...
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Motivation For Courtyard Manufactured Subdivision
Although the mobile home arguably arose first as an auxiliary vehicle for the automobile, coming onto the scene soon after the...
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