The falling fortunes of manufactured housing appear closely tied to the rising fortunes of traditionally built homes and to mortgage rates.
It was an unofficial stance against manufactured housing, and Stacey and her peers had drawn a line in the sand.
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These units are what is sometimes called manufactured housing, single-wide trailers, most of them about 60 feet long and 14 feet wide.
Stocks of manufactured-housing companies have soared this year as investors bet that consumers priced out of the apartment market and those looking to retire will opt for manufactured housing.
For all 2012, nearly 55, 000 new manufactured homes were sold, up from about 52, 000 in 2011 but a far cry from a peak of more than 370, 000 in 1998, according to the Manufactured Housing Institute, an industry trade group.
Despite the evidence stacking up in front of her eyes, Stacey, like most of the non-profit affordable housing community, was accustomed to thinking of manufactured housing as the anti-solution for the low- and middle-income Americans she had spent most of her career working with.
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The setbacks are the latest for manufactured housing, which has spent decades battling a "trailer park" image, even though many homes are considered safe, built in a factory and look like traditional homes, with options such as wooden cabinets and walls made from drywall, instead of flimsy paneling.
The conventional wisdom held that many consumers were seeking less-expensive housing alternatives, and manufactured homes, which often can be purchased for less than half the cost of a traditional home, would serve that purpose.
During this period, Americans purchased their first manufactured and packaged goods, moved into vertical housing, and demanded electricity, mass transportation, and education for their children.
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The lackluster sales have altered the plans of some manufactured-home companies that were expecting such housing to play a bigger role as the housing market remade itself following the crash.
Last October, Manson was found to be in possession of an inmate-manufactured weapon and he is now being held for 15 months in isolation in a secured housing unit in the California State Prison Corcoran, said Commissioner Gilbert Robles, the other member of the two-person parole panel.
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