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HISTORY
1958 - Birth of Manufactured Homes
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1970 - Demand for Mobile homes peaked
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1990 - 75% were single-section homes and 25% were multiple-section homes
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2000 - 50% were single-section homes and 25% were multiple-section homes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Demand for the mobile home peaked by the mid-1970s following
the last major growth of resource based industries
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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
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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
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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
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