manufactured housing

December 30, 2019

New Year’s Resolutions for Home Maintenance

If you’ve set a new year’s resolution to keep up with your home’s maintenance in 2020, this article can help. In it, we offer month-by-month maintenance tips you can do to care for what is perhaps your most valuable asset: your manufactured home.
November 19, 2019

Wildfires and Other Emergencies: Ensuring Your Health and Safety

With wildfires raging across the state of California, this article examines some precautions that residents can take to protect their homes from fire and other contingencies.
October 22, 2019

The Critical Importance of Homeowners’ Insurance for California Mobile Homes

In light of recent natural disasters, including the deadly fires that ravaged both Northern and Southern California one year ago, the importance of homeowners’ insurance has never been clearer. Read more about the types of homeowners’ insurance coverage, and tips for purchasing homeowners' insurance here.
March 29, 2019

The Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association: A Q&A with Doug Johnson, WMA’s Senior Regional Representative

One individual who is working hard to promote attractive, high-quality, affordable mobile home communities is Doug Johnson, WMA’s Senior Regional Representative. In a recent interview, Doug shared WMA’s mission and its recent attempts to close the affordable housing gap in California through education and advocacy.
March 22, 2019

Manufactured Homes vs. Modular Homes: One and the Same

In the affordable housing industry, a common question centers on the difference between “manufactured” and “modular” homes. The different terminology has bred universal confusion about whether the two are different at all, and if so, what the differences really are.