Housing Opportunity 2014 - Building for Health, Building with Innovation, Doug Ryan
1. Manufactured Housing in the Mainstream:
Building for Health, Building with Innovation
Housing Opportunity 2014: Healthy Housing, Healthy Places
Doug Ryan
Director, Affordable Homeownership
CFED
dryan@cfed.org
May 16, 2014
2.
3. facebook.com/CFEDNews
@CFED
cfed.org/blog/inclusiveeconomy
www.cfed.org
I’M HOME: Manufactured Housing
Market Transformation
8 million manufactured homes house about 18 million people
Over 20% of the units are from before the 1976 HUD code
standardized quality
Some states permit anti-manufactured housing zoning rules
Communities exclude manufactured housing from the
mainstream
4. facebook.com/CFEDNews
@CFED
cfed.org/blog/inclusiveeconomy
www.cfed.org
I’M HOME: Manufactured Housing
Why It’s Affordable
Manufactured Housing: $44 per square foot
Site- Built Housing: $86 per square foot
Produced in one-fifth of the time required by site built –
no weather delays or damage
Precision construction produces very little waste, as little
as a trash can full per home
7. facebook.com/CFEDNews
@CFED
cfed.org/blog/inclusiveeconomy
www.cfed.org
I’M HOME: Manufactured Housing
Design Quality
In some places, the HUD code - the only national housing
code – is stricter than the local code
HUD implemented installation standards, as required by the
Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000
Standards regulate formaldehyde in manufactured housing
materials and ventilation in finished units
New manufactured housing units can be made to or easily
adapted to accessibility standards to allow for aging in place
8. facebook.com/CFEDNews
@CFED
cfed.org/blog/inclusiveeconomy
www.cfed.org
I’M HOME: Manufactured Housing
Home Replacement
Potential for energy and health savings are immense
Energy-efficient units save owners money and help ensure
loan performance
MH owners spend twice as much on utilities per square foot
as site-built owners
Replacing a pre 1976 home with highly efficient MH, can save
as much as $1800 per year and reduce carbon emissions by
2.25 tons per year
9. facebook.com/CFEDNews
@CFED
cfed.org/blog/inclusiveeconomy
www.cfed.org
I’M HOME: Manufactured Housing
Home Replacement
Curry County, OR has an ambitious program to reduce
health problems through rehab/replacement
Health Impact Assessment found:
• Building envelope deterioration
• Increased likelihood of trip and falls, respiratory problems in these units
• These conditions worsen health, trigger new issues
Preliminary and related research suggest replacement will
mitigate and improve these incidents