Mobile home: Built before 1976, when modern federal safety standards, on a chassis with wheels. Titled like a vehicle, harder to finance, and depreciates. Manufactured home: Constructed after 1976, to ...

The U.S. is currently going through a housing crisis, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without homes. Factory-made homes can ease the crisis — but not without help. “There’s almost no other way ...

For years, factory-built homes have been treated as housing's last resort: the “trailers” you drove past on the edge of town, not the place you aspired to build wealth. That stigma is now colliding ...

It’s 108 degrees in mid-afternoon in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler, and steel billionaire Barry Zekelman is showing off his housing factory. At one end of the factory, hollow structural steel from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scaffolding adorns the facade of factory-built housing for Drake Avenue Apartments in Marin City, Calif. (Jungho Kim for ...

Homes built in factories have long been stuck at the fringe of the U.S. housing market. Now, supporters are cheering a new federal housing law that should make it easier and cheaper to build modular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Cheesecake Factory is famous for its massive menu that seems to include anything you're in the mood for. Normally, a menu that ...

The 1990s saw the introduction of several memorable performance models that looked much like ordinary sedans or wagons, but performed like veritable sports cars. Even today, many cars built during the ...

As the first home rolled off the factory floor in Kalamazoo, Michigan — “like a boxcar with picture windows,” according to a journalist on the scene — the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ...

As the first home rolled off the factory floor in Kalamazoo, Michigan -- "like a boxcar with picture windows," according to a journalist on the scene -- the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ...