That demand for mobile homes, also called manufactured homes, has already started affecting prices, industry officials say.

Financing for manufactured homes can be very difficult to arrange.

Most banks won't finance manufactured homes when there is no land included in the loan.

What - 3-bedroom house How much - $171,000 This house, like an increasing number of manufactured homes, sits on a foundation.

There is a range of new housing in town, with mobile or manufactured homes often utilized.

The term is 30 years for manufactured homes.

Meanwhile, the quality of manufactured homes is getting closer to that of traditional homes, he said.

Residents living on the barrier island and in manufactured homes were ordered to evacuate.

Red Sky wasn't some contemporary community of "manufactured homes"; this was a trailer park that provided marginal housing to working people living on the margins.

From 1991 to 1998, annual sales of manufactured homes more than doubled, to 374,000 from 174,000.