Manufactured housing finance and the secondary market

Sean West

Community Development Innovation Review, 2006, issue 1, 35-47

Abstract: Manufactured housing, or mobile homes, is often the most attractive housing option for many low- and moderate-income Americans. Reinforcing the concept that it is expensive to be poor, the financing of manufactured housing is often much more expensive than it needs to be. This article reviews how the current financing for manufactured homes functions, explores why it is so expensive, and suggests an important strategy to reduce its costs by pursuing a secondary market for manufactured home mortgages.

Keywords: -; Housing; Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.frbsf.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/cdireviewvol2issue12006.pdf Full Text (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fip:fedfcr:y:2006:p:35-47:n:v.2no.1

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Community Development Innovation Review from Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Research Library ().