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Manufactured homes are built onto steel beams, and are transported in complete sections to the home site, where they are assembled. Wheels, hitch and axles are removed on site when the home is placed on a permanent foundation. Mobile homes, or trailers, are built on wheels, and can be pulled by a vehicle.
The MHINCC distinguishes among several types of factory-built housing: manufactured homes, modular homes, panelized homes, pre-cut homes, and mobile homes. From the same source, mobile home "is the term used for manufactured homes produced prior to June 15, 1976, when the HUD Code went into effect."
Clayton Homes also owns retail brands Oakwood Homes, [57] TruValue Homes [58] and Luv Homes. [59] [60] In 2016, Clayton acquired G&I Homes, [61] a family-run company based in New York. [62] As of 2019, Clayton Homes has 40 home building facilities and more than 350 retail outlets located across the United States.
Champion Homes was founded in 1953 as a single manufacturing facility in the small town of Dryden in rural Michigan by Walter W. Clark and Henry E. George. [4]In 2005, Champion was the first manufacturer to build privatized modular housing for the military.
In 2015 Legal & General launched a modular homes operation, L&G Modular Homes, opening a 550,000 sq ft factory in Sherburn-in-Elmet, near Selby in Yorkshire. [14] The company incurred large losses as it invested in its factory before earning any revenues; by 2019, it had lost over £100m. [ 15 ]
From 2009–2010, The Chicago Housing Authority renovated the buildings, adding detailing—stone quoins and triangular ball-topped gables and metal porches—to give the original plain brick a neo-Georgian appearance, [2] and has installed its first resident computer center there. [15] The number of apartments will be reduced to 660. [2]
Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, built from 1950 to 1955, was the last of Henry K. Holsman's many housing development designs in Chicago. Holsman began designing low-income housing in Chicago in the 1910s when an urban housing shortage developed after World War I.
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The second largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.