Blog Posting # 877; Copyright 12 May 2026. EducateMHC
Know this! HUD-Code manufactured housing (‘MH’) is federally-regulated, performance-based, affordable-attainable, factory-built housing (a.k.a. one of four types of offsite construction: those being manufactured, modular & panelized housing, plus accessory dwelling units/ADUs, e.g. park Model RVs), routinely paired with traditional sti.ck-built, single-family residential housing (a.k.a. onsite-construction, where building permits, starts & completions are tallied and reported monthly by the U.S. Census Bureau). Land lease communities (a.k.a. manufactured home communities, ‘mobile home parks’) are the commercial real estate (‘CRE’) component of MH. And, along with various types of housing finance 9e.g. chattel or ‘home only’ loans, and real estate-secured mortgages) constitute the post-production segment of the MH industry.
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MARCH 2026 TOTAL NEW RESIDENTIAL HOUSING REPORT
This compilation begins with 1,366,,000 onsite construction completions reported by the U.S. Census Bureau, then converted to a monthly figure of 113,833 units completed.*1
To ascertain the estimated number of offsite construction units fabricated during March, add together: 8,735 HUD-Code manufactured homes reported by the Institute for Business Technology and Safety (‘IBTS’); 2,277 modular and panelized units (i.e. 2% of onsite construction); and, 1,467 accessory dwelling units (i.e. 489 Park Model RVs X 3). Taken together these three subtotals equal 12,479 units. When added to the 113,833 onsite construction estimate, equals 126,312 Total New Residential Housing Units for March 2026.
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- Sources of U.S. Census Bureau data: census.gov/construction/nrc/current/index/html. Next report (April) of New Residential Construction is scheduled for 21 May 2026