Program Offerings

Program Offerings

Introduction
"Manufactured Housing - Choices and Control Measures that Work"
"Disposal of Uninhabitable Mobile Homes
- Success Using a Big Carrot and a Little Stick"
"Innovations in Factory Built Housing"
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"Manufactured Housing
- Choices and Control Measures that Work"
Let's make this easy. This session will provide definitions, an explanation of who does what, how manufactured housing is regulated at the federal and State levels, and the important role of local government. You'll leave with a sense of control and tools that will lead your community to more effective use of manufactured housing.
Summary:

Brief definitions of factory built and site built housing types. Performance vs. prescriptive building codes
Summary of the national Manufactured Housing Improvement Act, SB 197 and Kentucky State laws regulating manufactured housing
"Who Does What" (chronology of home design, construction, transportation, installation, with an outline of industry providers and governmental regulators)
The Role of Local Government: discussion of types of economically priced homes, challenges to building them, niche of manufactured housing as an option, how to legally regulate at the local level
Questions and Answers

In many conference sessions and workshops on manufactured homes, issues, topics and concerns emerge that are specific to the individual jurisdictions present. This presentation is designed to give the participants a firmer foundation to focus on these issues and to bring them up to date on what is available. This can be a spring board for a healthy discussion that emerges from the participants. Given that many different levels of land use regulation and intensity of development patterns will be represented in each gathering, it is considered to be of great importance to plan adequate time in any agenda for these discussions.