Manufactured Housing Production Increases in May 2024 per July Manufactured Housing Association Report But Data Reveals Cracks in MHVille Performance Facts-Analysis; plus MHMarkets [Video]

Manufactured housing production increased in May 2024 over April 2024, according to the July report issued yesterday (7.8.2024) by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). But a closer look at the data and related events reveals cracks, weaknesses, and apparent flaws in manufactured housing industry performance among many corporate, nonprofits, and advocates. The reason that this matter is because the U.S. affordable housing crisis demonstrably can’t be mathematically solved without millions of more affordable homes. To better understand the issues that relate to the years of manufactured home industry underperformance, particularly in the 21st century, it is useful to look back and see how manufactured housing evolved from the trailer houses and mobiles homes from the decades before the HUD Code became federal law. Zoning and other legal/political and regulatory issues will also briefly be examined in a historical outline provided further below.

Part I of this …