Some replacement programs exclusively target manufactured housing built prior to the advent of the national building code for manufactured housing (“the HUD Code”) under the rationale that pre-HUD code units are in the worst condition. Gramlich Fellow in Economic and Community Development at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, I had the opportunity to explore one aspect of this question: whether or not nonprofits should focus on replacing manufactured housing built before the introduction of federal building standards in 1976. As national organizations, such as the Corporation for Enterprise Development and NeighborWorks America, consider scaling up these programs, it is important for housing professionals to ask: what has worked and what has not in this policy space?Īs a 2014 Edward M. Since 2000, nonprofits and government entities have increasingly sought to diminish negative perceptions associated with manufactured housing by sponsoring programs that replace substandard mobile homes with state-of-the-art, energy efficient units.
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