Joyce Bayles, 85, mows the lawn around her home in the Ridgeview Homes community in Lockport, N.Y., this summer. Manufactured homes are seen as essential to solving the nation’s housing crisis, ...

If you think you’ll save a fortune by purchasing a factory-built home, first read “Buying a Manufactured Home” by Kevin Burnside. The author, who grew up living in a 1965 10-by-50-foot “trailer home” ...

As traditional home prices climb and mortgage rates remain high, more buyers are turning to factory-built housing as a realistic path to homeownership. Modular and manufactured homes are both built ...