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Find a Job in the Manufactured Housing Industry
Looking for a change of pace? Our industry is hiring! There are job opportunities all across the state of South Carolina for people looking to help make housing affordable. Open positions include salespeople, administrative support, set up and service technicians, and more. Our new career page features openings from member organizations all across the state. Find your new career here: https://mhisc.com/jobs/
Oakwood Homes of Lexington name MHISC’s January Retailer of the Month
Oakwood Homes of Lexington offers manufactured home models from multiple homebuilders all across the region. Their team consists of award-winning home consultants who can match customers with the home that best fits their needs.
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How manufactured housing can save America
This isn’t a trailer in a trailer park. Instead, it’s a quality built home that is almost identical to traditional “site-built” housing, except it is built in a factory and transported to the lot where it will be placed on a foundation.
The average cost in July of last year of a new manufactured home in Georgia was $82,000 for a single-wide and only $158,700 for a brand new double-wide three-bedroom two-bath home. That is from a recent report of the Census Bureau’s Manufactured Housing Survey (MHS).
Washington Post: The US Can Solve Its Housing Crisis. It Just Needs to Start Building
For all its complexities, America’s nationwide housing crisis boils down to a problem of supply and demand: The country needs a lot more homes than it has, yet even ambitious reforms won’t provide developers with enough incentive to bridge the gap. Addressing this dilemma could well be the defining public-policy challenge of the next few decades. One promising option is manufactured housing, which can be produced much more quickly and at much lower cost than traditional homes constructed stick by stick onsite.