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2. FEMA trailer - Wikipedia

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   The term FEMA trailer, [1] [2] or FEMA travel trailer, is the name commonly given by the United States government [3] to forms of temporary manufactured housing assigned to the victims of natural disaster by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Such trailers are intended to provide intermediate term shelter, functioning longer than ...

3. Manufactured housing - Wikipedia

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   Manufactured housing (commonly known as mobile homes in the United States) is a type of prefabricated housing that is largely assembled in factories and then transported to sites of use. The definition of the term in the United States is regulated by federal law (Code of Federal Regulations, 24 CFR 3280): "Manufactured homes are built as ...

4. Mobile home - Wikipedia

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   e. A mobile home (also known as a house trailer, park home, trailer, or trailer home) is a prefabricated structure, built in a factory on a permanently attached chassis before being transported to site (either by being towed or on a trailer). Used as permanent homes, or for holiday or temporary accommodation, they are often left permanently or ...

5. Cutting out this phrase from a half-century-old law would ...

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   The U.S. housing market crisis has been marked by tight inventory and high prices, but two economists pointed to a source of affordable homes that could be unlocked by amending a federal law from ...

6. Prefabricated home - Wikipedia

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   Prefabricated homes, often referred to as prefab homes or simply prefabs, are specialist dwelling types of prefabricated building, which are manufactured off-site in advance, usually in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled. Some current prefab home designs include architectural details inspired by postmodernism or futurist ...

7. Lustron house - Wikipedia

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   Lustron houses are prefabricated enameled steel houses developed in the post- World War II era United States in response to the shortage of homes for returning G.I.s by Chicago industrialist and inventor Carl Strandlund. Considered low-maintenance and extremely durable, they were expected to attract modern families who might not have the time ...