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Manufactured homes make a comeback, with a lot more bells and whistles

Remember those days when you’d be on a road trip and all of a sudden a house would drive by in the other lane? Or more accurately, one half of a house, followed by the other half? You don’t see those double-wides much anymore. But with affordable housing harder to come by, manufactured homes are […]

Remember those days when you’d be on a road trip and all of a sudden a house would drive by in the other lane? Or more accurately, one half of a house, followed by the other half? You don’t see those double-wides much anymore. But with affordable housing harder to come by, manufactured homes are throwing off their stigma as unattractive, flimsy and tornado-prone and making a bit of a comeback.

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