A push to include manufactured homes as a viable option to help curb the housing affordability crisis is gaining ground as more of the premade homes are showing up established neighborhoods.
Take for instance the neighborhood in Petersburgh, Virginia where a construction team pushed together two halves of a brand-new factory-built house in the middle of a neighborhood of small single-family homes.
Once set, the home with its pitched roof and front porch, won’t look like a stereotype of a mobile home, NPR reported. Across the street, two big trucks rolled in from Pennsylvania and deposited another house, this one with blue siding and beige window shutters…