State Policy Playbook: Expanding and Preserving Attainable Housing with Manufactured Homes

Join the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s Innovations in Manufactured and Modular Homes Network (I’m HOME) and The Pew Charitable Trusts virtually for the launch of a new state policy playbook focused on expanding and preserving manufactured housing opportunities across the United States. This hybrid event will introduce the playbook’s overarching policy recommendations and highlight how states can take meaningful action to increase housing supply, improve affordability, and modernize housing policy through manufactured housing. Please note that in-person attendance is by invitation only.

The launch will bring together policymakers, practitioners, advocates, and researchers for a discussion of state-level strategies to support manufactured housing as an important part of the nation’s housing landscape. The program will be organized around three core policy areas: building attainable supply through zoning and land use reform, expanding access to mortgages for homebuyers by modernizing titling policy, and promising strategies to preserve existing communities as a source of naturally occurring affordable housing.

Together, these themes will showcase how states have approached reducing regulatory barriers, supporting healthier and more energy-efficient housing options, removing unnecessary hurdles preventing homebuyer access to mortgages, and helping families remain in their homes.

Registration for virtual participants opens April 28, 2026. View the agenda.

Contact an event organizer with questions.

Speakers

George “Mac” McCarthy, CEO, Lincoln
Kil Huh, Senior Vice President, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Laurie Goodman, Urban Institute
Nicole Friedman, Wall Street Journal
Grant Beck, Next Step Network
David Sanchez, ROC USA
Rachel Siegel, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Chris Nicely, manufacturedhomes.com
Kahya Fox, Habitat for Humanity of the Greater La Crosse Region
Sean Roberts, Villa Homes
Tara Roche, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Rachel Robinson, True Footage
Greg Payne, Senior Advisor, Housing (Maine)
Sarah Marchant, New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
John Van Alst, National Consumer Law Center
Eileen Divringi, Community Development Research Manager, Philadelphia Federal Reserve
Michael Sloss, ROC USA Capital
Jeremiah Ward, Cooperative Development Institute
Travis Plunket, Senior Director, The Pew Charitable Trusts