Manufactured housing is an often misunderstood and among the most maligned housing typologies. Like the Ugly Duckling reaching adulthood, HUD Code manufactured housing has grown up into a viable tool in our quest for good quality, naturally affordable housing. 🧵 
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Manufactured housing is misunderstood, even in in The Discourse, because it is most relevant away from the coasts where thought leaders live.
HUD Code Manufactured Homes are, as the name implies, regulated nationally by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
But these homes are often excluded by local regulations that key in on uniform physical touchstones that make manufactured homes easy to target.
So how can we level the playing field to allow manufactured homes to compete fairly with site-built homes? Well, there are a variety of measures we could undertake at various levels of government: from Congress, to state legislators, even banking regulators.
So what is the future of manufactured housing?
Full report here: niskanencenter.org/manufactured-h…
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