Breaking the Stigma: Test Your Knowledge of Manufactured-Home Ownership
When you're done, learn more about what manufactured housing is — and isn't — in this Housing Fact or Fiction video
What is manufactured housing?
Who lives in manufactured homes?
Most manufactured homeowners are your neighbors who are realizing their dreams as homeowners for the first time. Here are more facts about manufactured-home owners in New Hampshire, according to the Community Loan Fund’s lending data:
- 46 percent are between 21 and 45 years old.
- 10% are active military or veterans.
- 16% are essential workers, including first responders, healthcare workers, and teachers.
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The New Hampshire Community Loan Fund launched one of the nation's first fair, fixed-rate-mortgage programs for manufactured-home buyers two decades ago so they didn't have to turn to personal loans or predatory lenders for financing. Since then, the nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution has helped more than 1,400 borrowers become first-time homeowners.
Here are more resources about manufactured homes:
- NH Housing factsheet on manufactured housing
- Watch WATCH EPISODE “WHAT IS MANUFACTURED HOUSING?”HousingFactorFiction.org
- WATCH EPISODE “WHO LIVES IN MANUFACTURED HOUSING?”