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Cheap credit for "site-built" homes — those built outdoors — lured people with modest incomes away from trailer parks.
Mobile-Home Makers Try To Stitch Together a Rebound James R. Hagerty 2010
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Brandon Sullivan for The Wall Street Journal Cheap credit for "site-built" homes -- those built outdoors -- lured people with modest incomes away from trailer parks and into McMansions.
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However, we are still very impressed with this site-built home and all of its green wonders.
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Brandon Sullivan for The Wall Street Journal By contrast, sales of "site-built" homes didn't start falling until 2006 and last year totaled 375,000, a decline of 71% from a peak in 2005.
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The industry notes that the materials that go into manufactured housing — such as pine studs and gypsum wallboard — are the same as those typically used in site-built homes.
Mobile-Home Makers Try To Stitch Together a Rebound James R. Hagerty 2010
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By contrast, sales of site-built homes didn't start falling until 2006 and last year totaled 375,000, a decline of 71% from a peak in 2005.
Mobile-Home Makers Try To Stitch Together a Rebound James R. Hagerty 2010
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I think the idea is that if many more people were renting there would more demand for standardized, less-costly living quarters, which in turn would drive a move to greater use of manufactured building components (which to a certain extent is already underway in the Midwest) rather than site-built houses/apts.
Matthew Yglesias » The High Cost of Subsidized Homeownership 2010
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Brandon Sullivan for The Wall Street Journal The median price for site-built homes and condos was about $179,000 in August, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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The median price for site-built houses and condos was about $179,000 in August, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Mobile-Home Makers Try To Stitch Together a Rebound James R. Hagerty 2010
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And they are neither hurricane-resistant or seismic-resistant unless they are carefully tied to well-engineered, site-built footings.
Shipping Containers Could Provide Disaster Relief For Haiti | Inhabitat 2010
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