The need for affordable housing is serious. Former President Jimmy Carter has publicly commented on the crisis recently. From that same era, Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald Ford spoke favorably about mobile homes as much needed affordable living. The HUD Code for ma...
43 years ago, today is the official “birth” of HUD Code manufactured homes. Before June 15, 1976, there weretrailer housesbuilt in the 1930s and following. Atrailer housecould be pulled by a car or pickup with the proper equipment. ...
The term “mobile home” technically describes a factory-constructed home built before June 15, 1976. (That’s when the federal HUD code went into effect.) Manufactured homes are built after that date and meet higher standards for quality, safety ...
The Mobile Home era ended on June 15, 1976 when the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Code was enacted. HUD Code is a federal standard that regulates the construction quality of these homes. This code is arguably stricter than many of the local building codes that stick built homes must ...
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) oversees application of the standards for the construction of manufactured homes, the NationalManufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards. The term ‘‘dwelling unit’’ includes a manu- factured home which conforms to Fe...
"mobile home" in a news article is enough to send Kovach racing to his keyboard, where he tracks down the errant reporter and points out that mobile homes ceased to exist on June 14, 1976, when the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ushered in the era of HUD-code homes...
A mobile home is a factory-built home constructed before June 15, 1976. That date marks when the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) introduced the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standard Act to implement new building codes for mobile homes. Mobile home...
- 1991 - findarticles.com
it should not be thought that such are the only kinds of manufactured homes built. Several HUD Code manufactured home builders produce housing that are ‘residential style’ manufactured homes. They look and live much the same as any housing built on site. Their owner...