In his article, “The Urbanist Case for Trailer Parks,” writer Nolan Gray makes a very good case about the importance of manufactured housing in helping solve the nation’s demand for high quality affordable housing.
Here is the key quote:
The housing crisis isn’t a technological problem—it’s a legal problem, one built upon the same prejudices that shape so many other disparities in American urban planning. We know how to build and distribute enough affordable housing to shelter the 554,000 homeless Americans that currently need it, desperately. But if we don’t allow more manufactured housing to legally be built, this technology may as well not exist.
You can read the rest of this great read here.