Gov. Maura Healey’s administration is preparing an executive order that targets modular housing, or homes that are designed and constructed in a factory to be quickly assembled at a desired ...

Massachusetts manufactured homeowners are facing steep increases in insurance premiums. Limited insurance options exist for manufactured homes, leading to higher costs and fewer choices for consumers.

Mobile homes, also known as manufactured homes, are a critical source of affordable housing for some 35,000 people across Massachusetts and 22 million people nationwide. At a time when the federal ...

Residents at Ludlow’s West Street Village Mobile Home Community are faced with a 150 percent rent increase, according to WWLP-22 News. Tom Lennon, who owns West Street Village Mobile Home Community, ...

Boston architect designs fireproof house 02:20. BOSTON - As wildfires burn out of control in California destroying thousands of homes and businesses, architect Gary Hendren and his team are busy ...

After over two years of elevated real estate prices, mortgage rates, and rents, the housing affordability crisis in the U.S. is more apparent than ever. Expanding manufactured housing—a category ...

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2023 — the most recent year for which data was available — the average sales price of a single-wide manufactured home in Massachusetts was $124,200. A ...

TAUNTON — Kathy Zorotheos remembers knocking on doors in 2015 in her community, Oak Hill Mobile Home Park in Taunton, working to drum up community support for buying the property, which the ...

Greystar's proposal would be one of the largest modular-construction projects ever built in Massachusetts. It would go on a site now home to more than a dozen dilapidated 19th-century mill buildings.

"It has a cistern system for collecting water, has composting toilets, solar panels and it has a wind turbine," Hendren said.