Trailers used to be built with 2x2s every 4 feet. Now they are 2x4 and 2x6 and 16/24 on center like any house.
Sounds like the article is referring to oldermobile homes/double wides and lack of basements or underground shelter.
Old prejudices. Sounds like they want to regulate manufactured housing to trailer parks.
Thing is, most houses today are manufactured. Tresses arefrequently built off site and brought in.
I watched new houses being built in Virginia and sold for a hugh price.
The only plywood in the outside walls were in the corners. The rest of the outside walls consisted of insulation foam and vinyl siding.
I’ll take a manufactured house over that.
Mobile home production ceased between 1974 and 1976. In 1974, they had to meet higher standard (National Mobile Home Construction and Safety Act). Manufactured homes, built to HUD standards have been built since 1976 (. A mobile home would be anything built pre-HUD standards. 2x2 construction hasn't been allowed since 1974.
Modern manufactured and modular homes are very similar. The primary difference is a modular home is designed to be placed on a permanent foundation while manufactured homes can be placed on a permanent foundation, but are often still placed on post and beam moorings and can still be moved again if so desired.
My MANUFACTURED HOME has exterior of “CEMENT BOARD”.
Been here 18 years. NO COMPLAINTS.
Building garbage houses and selling them for a high price is common in Virginia. They get away with it because MOST people who buy them don’t intend to live there for more than a few years. And they tend to be impressed with the stainless steel appliances and granite countertops, what’s behind the walls, they couldn’t care less about.
I have a friend who says he never has to worry about losing his keys. He can cut through the wall with his pocket knife if he has to.