Posted on 04/30/2016 11:56:20 AM PDT by Lorianne
This is part of a movement to convince people that the American Dream is dead, and to get them to accept ever lower standards of living. Now they’re pushing trailers, soon I imagine we’ll be treated to articles about the joys of tent cities and a “back to nature” (open latrines) lifestyle.
Biggest problem with mobile homes is their susceptibility to natural disasters.
But cant blame people for wanting their own place.
Maybe if there was a way to secure manufactured housing to a crawl space then allow some form of conveyable title for the dwelling while leaving the land in the name of the landlord.
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Just don’t build them in the path of a tornado. :-)
The latest push on HGTV is “Tiny Houses.”
Our betters want us to take up less space on their earth.
Tiny House Hunters
http://www.hgtv.com/shows/tiny-house-hunters
Yes “tiny houses” are hot, hot, hot right now.
Never mind that they are just homeier looking RVs.
LOL, I know right?
I think the point of the article is that trailer parks are a free market solution to providing homes for lower income people that actually works a lot better than government provided low income housing. If it were allowed in more places we’d go a lot further toward combatting homelessness etc than anything else that government could do.
Manufactured housing doesn’t have to be ugly, some of the newer modulars are nice-looking and difficult to distinguish from site-built, but the more modules there are, the higher the cost. Still less expensive than comparable though.
Yes, I agree I have seen some very attractive manufactured homes ... as well as generally agreeable looking.
Still, the vast majority of them are butt ugly (and they didn’t have to be). It’s a shame really. I hope that is turning around and the reverse will be true, more of them will be attractive than not.
I cant imagine that anyone who moves into o e of those would stay very lo g. Less than a year on average i bet
Yes, that was the main point of the article. Also that other forms of less expensive housing have been basically outlawed.
The bottom one looks like my housing build outs in fallout 4
Is that a Bridge-to-Nowhere?
A friend of mine lives in a really nice double-wide on his own land. Before the trailer was placed, he built a tornado shelter, then placed the trailer over it making sure the kitchen was directly over the entrance. Ye then cut a hole in the floor as an entrance to the shelter with steps leading down. He keeps all his valuables there. In the unlikely event they got broken into, he placed a rather large throw rug over the hinged door that led to the shelter. Hard to see and find.
It’s skirted like the homes should be, so the entrance isn’t visible from outside the trailer.
He’s never had to use it, but, there’s always that first time.
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