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The Innovations in Manufactured and Modular Homes (I’m HOME) Network champions inclusive, factory-built housing solutions—both manufactured and modular homes—as vital, scalable strategies to address the nation’s affordable housing crisis. Through research, data, policy engagement, and collaborative working groups, the network advances approaches that unlock housing affordability, expand pathways to ownership, and strengthen community resilience.

What We Do:

  • Support evidence-based policy reform and innovative financing strategies that expand access to manufactured and modular housing
  • Convene experts, practitioners, advocates, and government stakeholders to solve structural barriers to factory-built housing adoption
  • Elevate modular construction as a complementary, high-quality solution with strong potential for rapid, cost-effective housing production
  • Launch working groups built around our “Contact + Greater Impact Model” to accelerate coordinated research, stakeholder engagement, and solutions implementation
  • Integrate community-centered voices into strategy development to ensure equitable outcomes across diverse housing markets

What Is Manufactured Housing?

Manufactured homes, often referred to as “mobile homes,” are built in the controlled environment of a factory and transported in one or more sections on a permanent chassis, as defined by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Manufactured homes are built in accordance with HUD’s Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards, commonly known as the HUD Code, and display a red certification label on the exterior of each transportable section. With recent innovation in the manufactured housing sector, these high-quality homes are often indistinguishable from traditional site-built homes.

What Is Modular Housing?

Modular housing consists of homes built in sections in a factory and then transported to a site for final assembly on a permanent foundation. Modular homes are constructed to the same state and local building codes as site-built housing, meaning their quality, durability, and appearance are indistinguishable from that of site-built homes. Factory production enables faster construction, greater quality control, and reduced material waste, making modular housing a cost-effective and scalable solution for single-family, multifamily, and infill development.

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Conferencia

Innovations in Manufactured Homes (I’m HOME) Annual Conference 2025

The I’m HOME Network’s annual conference highlights policy and technical advancements in the manufactured housing industry, focusing on zoning, financing, and standards for long-term affordability. The 2025 conference will be held in September in Atlanta, Georgia, a state where manufactured housing plays a critical role in affordability.

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Lincoln Institute Is Now Convening the I’m HOME Network
Land Lines Magazine

In March 2022, the Lincoln Institute assumed stewardship of the I’m HOME Network. Convening the I’m HOME Network is a feature of the Lincoln Institute’s larger effort to address the housing affordability crisis as part of its goal to reduce poverty and spatial inequality.

Let Manufactured Homes in: Removing Regulatory Barriers to Manufactured Housing
Webinar

In this webinar, leading experts discuss why and how policymakers can allow manufactured homes in more places as a solution to the housing affordability crisis. Zoning dictates the land use in municipalities, including where different types of housing can be placed. Because of misconceptions about manufactured housing, many communities use their zoning code to exclude manufactured homes from single-family neighborhoods.

Our Experts

Arica Young

Director, Housing Access and Affordability, Lincoln Insitute of Land Policy

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy