As affordable housing crisis endures, manufactured homes could be part of the solution

In rural Florida, a new development could offer one solution to the nation's affordable housing crisis: a built-to-rent community populated with manufactured homes. ERC Communities, led by Jerry Ellenburg, is about to begin horizontal construction on a 60-unit manufactured housing project in Zephryhills, the small city 30 miles northeast of Tampa best known for its eponymous bottled water. Ellenburg's model is a twist on traditional manufactured housing developments; typically, occupants of those…Original Article