Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger ran on a promise to improve housing affordability across the Commonwealth, and when she takes office this weekend there will be a myriad of legislative efforts to support that promise.
Among them is a bill which would expand the use of manufactured homes; they’re quick and easy to build but carry with them a perception of a mobile home industry that’s often unattractive to localities.
Randy Grumbine from the Virginia Manufactured and Modular Housing Association is standing in front of the Dorsey Homes community in Petersburg, a collection of freshly built manufactured homes. Nine such homes with similar and familiar siding and picket-fenced front porches have been built in the community; there’s 40 more in the pipeline…