Developing with Manufactured Homes
Developing with Manufactured Homes

Author: Steve Hullibarger

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780970695000

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The most completely finished variation of industrialized housing is the manufactured home. Many people still refer to these homes as mobile homes, even though they are rarely, if ever, moved. Developing with Manufactured Homes illustrates how the manufactured housing industry functions & how the homes are constructed. It explains how developers can make use of the industrialized approach to building, in lieu of the increasingly cumbersome "stick" building process. Elementary concepts in land selection, acquisition, the public approval process, development & construction are not covered in this book, except to the extent that the use of manufactured housing would dictate a significant variation in practice as compared to building homes on site. The primary focus throughout the text is on fee simple development-merging the house with the land to create a singular title of real estate. Although the emphasis is on subdivisions, planned unit developments & urban infill lots as opposed to the development of land-lease communities, many of the subjects covered are applicable to all of the above modes of land use. This book is an indispensable guide for any builder, developer or student interested in taking advantage of the opportunities in manufactured housing development.

Manufactured Insecurity
Manufactured Insecurity

Author: Esther Sullivan

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0520968352

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Manufactured Insecurity is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents. Drawing on rich ethnographic data collected before, during, and after mobile home park closures and community-wide evictions in Florida and Texas—the two states with the largest mobile home populations—Manufactured Insecurity forces social scientists and policymakers to respond to a fundamental question: how do the poor access and retain secure housing in the face of widespread poverty, deepening inequality, and scarce legal protection? With important contributions to urban sociology, housing studies, planning, and public policy, the book provides a broader understanding of inequality and social welfare in the United States today.

Manufactured Housing
Manufactured Housing

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Wheel Estate
Wheel Estate

Author: Allan D. Wallis

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1997-06-19

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780801856419

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A lively and informative history of the mobile home in the United States over six decades—extensively illustrated with period photographs and vivid portraits of the people who live in mobile homes and the industry pioneers who designed and built them. In Wheel Estate, Allan Wallis offers a lively and informative history of the mobile home in the United States over six decades. His colorful account, extensively illustrated with period photographs and vivid portraits of the people who live in mobile homes and the industry pioneers who designed and built them, will inform and amuse anyone curious about this American phenomenon. Beginning with the travel trailers of the late 1920s and 1930s—with models that were built like yachts or unfolded like Polaroid cameras—Wallis moves through the World War II era, when the industry mushroomed as trailers became homes for thousands of defense workers, to the post war era, when trailers became year-round housing. The industry responded with new models—now called mobile homes—that tried to strike a balance between house and vehicle, even as owners built their own often fanciful additions (including one mobile home complete with Egyptian pylons). Carrying the story up to the present, Wallis links the need for mobile homes to continuing housing crises. He traces regulations and reforms aimed at "linear living," arguing in the end that manufactured housing remains distinctively American and embodies fundamental national ideas of home and community.

The Grissim Buyer's Guide to Manufactured Homes and Land
The Grissim Buyer's Guide to Manufactured Homes and Land

Author: John Grissim

Publisher:

Published: 2008-03-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780972543620

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The authoritative consumer guide to manufactured homes and purchasing land or leasing a home site, providing up-to-date, essential information home buyers need to make an informed purchase decision. This second edition of the bestselling guide is completely revised and updated, including a new annotated construction rating table with 56 criteria you can use to evaluate any home'before you buy. In this comprehensive book, John Grissim, author of the best-selling companion resource, The Grissim Ratings Guide to Manufactured Homes, gives you everything you need to safely'and successfully'navigate the tricky waters of the manufactured home marketplace. He explains how the manufactured home industry operates, how to find a dealer worthy of your trust, how to make the right home selection, and, as important, how to be informed, empowered and swindle-proof. Exahustively researched, with extensive input from both industry insiders and consumer advocates, this guide contains much information that retailers, even the good guys, don't want you to know. In addition to clear step-by-step guidance in the home buying process, John Grissim provides up-to-date, essential information together with authoritative, no-nonsense insights that have made him a respected industry observer and voice for the home-buying consumer.

Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards and Procedural and Enforcement Regulations
Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards and Procedural and Enforcement Regulations

Author: Barry Leonard

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2000-08

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0756701236

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Chapters: (1) Manufactured Home Construction & Safety standards: general info.; planning considerations; fire safety; body & frame construction requirements; testing; thermal protection; plumbing systems; heating, cooling & fuel burning systems; electrical systems; & transportation; (2) Manufactured Home Procedural & Enforce. Regulations; formal procedures; rules & rulemaking proceedings; informal & formal presentation of views, hearings & invest.; manufacturer inspections & certif. requirements; dealer & dist. responsibil.; state admin. agencies; primary inspect. agencies; consumer complaint handling & remedial actions; monitoring of primary inspection agencies; departmental oversight; & manufacturer, IPIA & SAA reports.