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Cost and Quality: Breaking Down the Stigma of Manufactured Housing
One of the biggest challenges to mainstreaming the use of manufactured housing may be, ironically, its cost. Long recognized as affordable when compared to site-built homes, manufactured housing’s lower costs come at a price. That price is the ongoing stigma that many communities and residents hold against manufactured housing. Read more
Welcome Casey Foley!
Please join Prosperity Now in welcoming Casey Foley, as our new Program Associate. She will be with us for the I'M HOME Conference in Portland and stepping in to support our work in manufactured housing. Casey comes to us from Libraries Without Borders where she ran programs supporting rural communities in Minnesota, including manufactured housing parks. Welcome, Casey!
When: November 18-20, 2019
Where: Hilton Portland Downtown Portland, OR
Anti-Stigma Month
This October is the 2nd Annual Anti-Stigma Campaign to dispel the myths around manufactured housing. Check out our toolkit for content to share with your networks and homeowners!
Grapevine Denies Apartment Project That Would Have Displaced Local Mobile Home Tenants
The city of Grapevine, TX decided against the closure of a mobile home park that would have displaced residents from one of the city’s few remaining pockets of affordable living. Read more
Developer Seeks to Build New Manufactured Home Park in Hayden, CO
At a Hayden Town Council meeting on Thursday, David Zulejkic, of the Texas-based First Step Homes, presented a site plan and artist’s renderings of the park to council. The park, called the Montage, is proposed for 1300 West Jefferson Ave., just west of Wagner Equipment and directly across from the existing Meadow Village Manufactured Home Park. Read more
