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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MH units 1 currently account for about 6% of the U.S. MH units 1 currently account for about 6% of the U.S. Having to travel down highways naturally accounts for its long thin shape (which acts as a considerable design constraint). housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing. 14] See U.S.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Specifically: Freddie Mac's earnings press release for full year 2019 (but not since) disclosed that the CCF required, on average during that year, was $52 billion. Or is it just a case, in a highly politicized industry, of a politically convenient advocacy rationale to justify not increasing G-fees? See their press release.