Multifamily Market Commentary
Manufactured Housing Landscape 2020
May 21, 2020
As the housing affordability crisis has deepened, manufactured housing is garnering more interest as an important source of affordable housing, particularly among rural and low-income households. In addition, it costs significantly less and takes less time to build a new manufactured home than to build a new site-built home of comparable size. As a result, manufactured housing has the potential to be an important tool in adding new homes to housing supply despite the likely slowdown in the shipments of new homes due to recent elevated levels of job loss.