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Are Manufactured Homes the Unlikely Answer to Housing Shortage?
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
While housing starts have picked up in
recent months, the lack of new construction has been called a crisis by Freddie
Mac, state and federal policymakers, and consumer groups, adding as it has to
an overall shortage of housing for both sale and rent. Urban Institute (UI)
analyst John Walsh recently wrote in UI's Urban Wire blog that one problem with
21st Century homebuilding is that it still employs 20th Century
processes. These methods, that entail building largely on-site, make construction
less efficient, exacerbate labor and weather issues, and are costlier than building
off-site.
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