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Evolution of the Manufactured Housing Industry
After World War II, and particularly as the North American economy grew through the 1950s and 1960s, housing demand often outpaced local supply and/or construction capacity, giving birth to the "mobile" home. Photo: Manufacturered Housing Association display at the 2001 UBCM Municipal Marketplace.
In the last 25 years, the mobile home has continued to meet the demand for basic, affordable housing and offered more features to meet specific housing needs, such as those mature buyers - the modern mobile home is virtually indistinguishable from site-built construction The "modular" home has grown to meet the various demands for quality-built permanent homes, which are very cost effective and can be sited almost everywhere. ABOUT MHABC An incorporated society from 1980. Originated as a group of western mobile home dealers in the 1970 . Later included manufacturers, transporters and other suppliers. Represents factory construction and home sales throughout B.C MHABC is actively involved with all subjects impacting factory-built homes - Works closely with federal, provincial and local governments - Addresses building standards, zoning, and use, financing - Attends to licensing, home warranty and consumer relations - Maintains regular contacts on home community (home park) issues MHABC presents manufactured homes to regulators and homebuyers Dealers are the full-time retailers of manufactured homes in BC MHABC and Members put on Annual Home Shows for the public - such as Abbotsford, Armstrong, Kamloops, Nanaimo, Prince George.
Web Site: HTTP://WWW.MHABC.COM/index.htm
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Manufactured
housing is an important part of the total housing stock
available to British Columbians today, providing some 90,000
houses. In the last decade alone, MHABC Members built and
delivered 14,198 new single-detached homes for British
Columbians - in 1990 almost 75% were single-section homes -
by 2000 more than 50% were multiple-section
homes.
Factory-built
or prefab buildings were used from the late 1800s for things
like "instant" bank buildings during the Klondike Gold Rush
and as "catalogue" homes to be shipped by rail and wagon to
homesteads
Demand
for the mobile homes peaked by the mid-1970s following the
last major growth of resource based industries. The full CSA
Mobile Home Series of Standards (CSA Z240) was introduced
Canada-wide in 1972, offering a recognized mark of quality
manufacturing to homebuyers.
MHABC
and Members regularly participate in Union of B.C.
Municipalities' Conventions - UBCM Show Homes in Penticton,
Victoria, Vernon, Whistler - and B.C. Building Officials'
Conventions.