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Manufactured homes are appreciating faster than site-built homes

Housing Wire

It called these the most extensive updates of their kind in three decades as the department seeks to modernize the features of manufactured homes to drive demand. Despite that attention, however, some in the industry have chafed at the portrayal of land-lease communities by government housing authorities.

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Manufactured housing group encouraged by FHA attention — but concerned about its portrayal

Housing Wire

With Todman’s emphasis on mission-driven entities and nonprofit access to the program, Gooch said its portrayal was needlessly negative toward private owners of land-lease communities, where many MHI-backed manufactured homes are ultimately placed. That’s why I find it interesting.