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Crown Team Texas set the first of many hurricane-resistant modular homes on pilings in its new coastal community, Audubon Village. The structure on Bolivar Peninsula, located 60 miles southeast of Houston and three miles north of Galveston Island, is the first modular home in the United States sited as part of the Institute for Business & Home Safety's Fortified...for safer living(R) program. Crown Team Texas is the first developer in Texas to build to the "Fortified" standard. (Photo: Business Wire) .
October is Manufactured Housing Month in Mississippi, according to a recent press release from the Manufactured Housing Association in Flowood. The release went on to say that one out of every three Mississippi housing starts in the first six months of the year was a manufactured home. With so many manufactured homes sold in the state, there is no doubt the industry fills a need. But the volume of manufactured homes sold may help explain why so many people confuse them with modular construction. Emily Austill said she got a permit and financing for her modular home in Perkinston. But after the home was delivered and while finishing work was taking place, a neighbor protested her right to have the home, believing it to be manufactured. Austill said work has stopped on the home until the misunderstanding can be rectified.
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