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Pew expert tells Senate manufactured homes can expand affordable supply if zoning and financing change
Summary
A Pew Charitable Trust housing expert told the Senate committee manufactured homes are cheaper than comparable site-built houses, account for about 6% of Vermont’s stock, and that state zoning reform and reduced lot-size requirements can boost affordability. She offered data and examples and agreed to follow up with state policy links.
Rachel of the Pew Charitable Trust told the Senate Economic Development, Housing & General Affairs committee that manufactured homes — those built to the HUD code after 1976 — differ from older mobile homes and from modular construction and can provide a faster, lower-cost path to new, smaller housing units. She said manufactured single-section homes are often less than half the cost of similar site-built units and double-section homes are a little over half the cost, citing Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies comparisons.
Rachel said about 6% of Vermont’s housing stock is manufactured or…
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