Doug Ryan, Corporation for Enterprise Development

1. Manufactured Housing in the Mainstream:
Building for Health, Building with Innovation
Housing Opportunity 2014: Healthy Housing, Healthy Places
Doug Ryan
Director, Affordable Homeownership
CFED
dryan@cfed.org
May 16, 2014

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I’M HOME: Manufactured Housing
Market Transformation
 8 million manufactured homes house about 18 million people
 Over 20% of the units are from before the 1976 HUD code
standardized quality
 Some states permit anti-manufactured housing zoning rules
 Communities exclude manufactured housing from the
mainstream

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I’M HOME: Manufactured Housing
Why It’s Affordable
Manufactured Housing: $44 per square foot
Site- Built Housing: $86 per square foot
 Produced in one-fifth of the time required by site built –
no weather delays or damage
 Precision construction produces very little waste, as little
as a trash can full per home

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I’M HOME: Manufactured Housing
How It Looks Today
Infill Development, Oakland

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I’M HOME: Manufactured Housing
Market Transformation
Housing Authority of Snohomish County

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I’M HOME: Manufactured Housing
Design Quality
 In some places, the HUD code - the only national housing
code – is stricter than the local code
 HUD implemented installation standards, as required by the
Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000
 Standards regulate formaldehyde in manufactured housing
materials and ventilation in finished units
 New manufactured housing units can be made to or easily
adapted to accessibility standards to allow for aging in place

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I’M HOME: Manufactured Housing
Home Replacement
 Potential for energy and health savings are immense
 Energy-efficient units save owners money and help ensure
loan performance
 MH owners spend twice as much on utilities per square foot
as site-built owners
 Replacing a pre 1976 home with highly efficient MH, can save
as much as $1800 per year and reduce carbon emissions by
2.25 tons per year

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I’M HOME: Manufactured Housing
Home Replacement
 Curry County, OR has an ambitious program to reduce
health problems through rehab/replacement
 Health Impact Assessment found:
• Building envelope deterioration
• Increased likelihood of trip and falls, respiratory problems in these units
• These conditions worsen health, trigger new issues
 Preliminary and related research suggest replacement will
mitigate and improve these incidents

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I’M HOME: Manufactured Housing
Home Replacement
 Tucson