Top 12. Manufactured Home Production and Shipment Data for all 50 States. MHProNews Testing. Manufactured Housing and Manufactured Housing Institute Realities Examined-June 2026-Aug 2026 FEA

As billions of adults around the world and throughout the ages know, words can be used accurately, inaccurately or a mixture of both. There is ‘the truth,’ there are outright lies and then there ‘true lies‘ – slyly worded half-truths or paltering. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), every state has a large shortage of affordable housing. When some of the states that have the most severe shortage are considered, curiously, manufactured homes are often in short supply in those states (plus see below). Much of that should be on the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) website in a public facing fashion. However, as regular and detail-minded readers of MHProNews may know, MHI doesn’t even have on this date a collection of its own formal statements to Congress, much less a range of facts-evidence-analysis (FEA) based topics found on here or on our MHLivingNews sister site. Clearly, if our operation can do such reports, MHI could too. What explains that lack of information on subjects that might protect-educate-promote (PEP) manufactured housing via MHI? There are several possible explanations, but the consolidation thesis seems to have strong academic, documentation as well as industry-expert support. On the morning of 8.13.2026 the following facts-evidence-analysis (FEA) model articles and reports were the top dozen to that point in the month of August here on MHProNews. Since we are by far the most transparent operation in terms of showing such information and given that there has been no discernable reciprocity from either the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) itself or those platforms that claim to publish news that are in the MHI orbit, MHProNews hereby notes that we are NOT saying that these are in the order they were reported by Webalizer server logs. But these are the top 12 most read articles to that time. Each of these not only tells a story about manufactured housing, but they also speak to the interests of those in the manufactured housing industry along with others who peer into MHVille via this platform for their own reasons.

 

 

On 8.13.2026 MHProNews also announced via our eblast a test. MHProNews did not say what that test was. Candidly, there were and are several tests underway. Among those tests were more historic articles and more pointedly MHI focused exposes.  The early results as measured by reader-engagements (hits/views) are interesting.

 

#1			https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/comparing-u-s-cost-of-living-in-1950s-to-2026-snapshots-of-income-housing-costs-in-1950s-vs-2026-baseline-references-for-conventional-housing-mobile-homes-manufactured-homes-mhville-fea/
#2			https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/fran-quigley-21st-century-road-to-housing-act-kind-of-mid-beyond-supply-subsidies-needed-road-fine-but-wont-help-millions-who-cant-afford-market-rate-housi/
#3			https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/case-1-23-cv-06715-filed-01-26-26-judge-franklin-u-valderrama-second-amended-consolidated-class-action-complaint-murex-settled-includes-cooperation-provision-information-documents-fea/
#4			https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/the-manufactured-housing-institute-mhi-consolidation-thesis-painful-to-some-but-difficult-to-deny-manufactured-housing-truths-hide-in-plain-sight-plus-sunday-weekly-mhville-headlines-recap/
#5			https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/legacy-housing-sec-edgar-filing-co-founder-curt-hodgson-resigns-it-truly-has-been-an-honor-electric-bikes-ski-boats-and-plenty-of-cold-beer-financial-other-reviews-and-updates-fea/
#6			https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/notice-of-potential-liability-institutional-agendas-distort-markets-to-detriment-of-consumers-examined-in-mashup-with-50-states-plus-d-c-and-pr-manufactured-housing-shipment-data-fea/
#7			https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/entry-level-22-duplex-pro-forma-for-economical-manufactured-home-developing-manufactured-housing-institute-clayton-homes-and-related-mhville-facts-evidence-analysis-fea-checks/
#8			https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/revised-sun-communities-sui-fortress-per-ip-high-barriers-to-entry-but-ip-risk-factors-flagged-by-sun-include-manufactured-home-financing-litigation-and-regulatory-mhville/

#9			https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/irs-complaint-subject-request-for-investigation-of-manufactured-housing-institute-mhi-is-accountability-ahead-for-mhi-leaders-accused-of-perjury-institutional-fiduciary-failures-mhville-fea/
#10			https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/exclusive-land-home-manufactured-homes-with-hoa-and-storage-under-72000-total-and-under-710-monthly-with-piti-about-80-plus-percent-of-u-s-population-could-qualify-to-own-mhville-fea/
#11			https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/revisiting-curt-hodgsons-push-for-manufactured-home-sales-via-developments-can-under-500-monthly-be-achieved-yes-it-can-plus-sunday-weekly-mhville-headlines-recap-facts-evidence-analysis/
#12			https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/2025-draws-to-close-looking-to-tark-im-a-teen-and-know-solution-to-affordable-housing-crisis-attend-events-go-to-washington-d-c-to-meet-public-officials-read-y/

 

Additionally, traffic for August is up markedly over June or July 2026. As least some of the tests are apparently paying off in terms of increased reader engagement.

MHProNews has repeatedly asked MHI and its media allies to confirm or correct, as warranted by a transparent disclosure of their respective website’s server statistics. Third-party AIs will be asked – and their answers – will be shown below on just how many of those operations have as of 8.27.2026 circa 9 AM ET what their traffic is. Their silence to date has been deafening when compared to their own respective claims. It is facts-evidence-analysis (FEA) model reports like this one that arguably have made MHProNews dominate in industry news, with 101x more traffic than MHI, per SimilarWeb and other data (see below).

 

 

Nor are the above only and below solely about bragging rights. Because depending on the focus of a website, their traffic may be part of a valid way to peer into just how much interest there is in modern HUD Code manufactured housing. Millions of potential buyers are shopping for our industry’s product. That’s potentially good news. But when the potential is compared to the actual results the disconnect is stark.

 

 

Thus, the importance of the stats that follows from the Institute for Building Technology & Safety‎ (IBTS) and its obvious relationship to manufactured housing, but perhaps more importantly, to the broader affordable housing crisis. IBTS is the operation that has contracted with HUD to provide this data. In Part II what third-party AIs have to say about the above and these developing tests will be showcased.

 

As a sneak peek into elements found in Part II, the first academic-style facts-evidence-analysis check below is from Google’s Gemini.

It is fair to say that an inverse relationship appears between manufactured home shipments and the documented shortage of affordable housing. As tracked by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), high-deficit states (e.g., California, New York, Nevada) receive remarkably few manufactured home shipments relative to their unmet housing needs. Artificial bottlenecks—such as restrictive local zoning, lack of enhanced preemption enforcement under the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 (MHIA), and constrained financing—keep shipments low where affordable housing is needed most.

There is much more from that source and another that unpacks the statements and third-party fact-checks of the developing human authored draft report.

This expert MHVille facts-evidence-analysis (FEA) is well underway.

 

Part I

Institute for Building Technology & Safety‎
Shipments and Production Summary Report 6/01/2026 – 6/30/2026

Shipments
State	SW	MW	Total	Floors
Dest. Pending	7	11	18	29
Alabama	212	245	457	704
Alaska	0	0	0	0
Arizona	55	118	173	292
Arkansas	50	82	132	214
California	44	187	231	427
Colorado	10	27	37	65
Connecticut	4	6	10	16
Delaware	12	19	31	51
District of Columbia	0	0	0	0
Florida	144	482	626	1,114
Georgia	112	284	396	683
Hawaii	0	4	4	8
Idaho	12	36	48	86
Illinois	80	54	134	188
Indiana	204	70	274	344
Iowa	23	4	27	31
Kansas	70	8	78	86
Kentucky	146	225	371	598
Louisiana	179	163	342	506
Maine	24	50	74	124
Maryland	0	5	5	10
Massachusetts	5	8	13	21
Michigan	167	98	265	363
Minnesota	44	34	78	112
Mississippi	159	192	351	541
Missouri	43	80	123	203
Montana	12	19	31	51
Nebraska	10	4	14	18
Nevada	4	37	41	79
New Hampshire	22	16	38	54
New Jersey	9	11	20	31
New Mexico	67	96	163	259
New York	72	81	153	234
North Carolina	237	336	573	911
North Dakota	15	18	33	51
Ohio	115	56	171	227
Oklahoma	87	109	196	306
Oregon	17	93	110	205
Pennsylvania	80	88	168	256
Rhode Island	0	0	0	0
South Carolina	163	277	440	719
South Dakota	14	17	31	48
Tennessee	94	222	316	537
Texas	701	928	1,629	2,564
Utah	9	23	32	55
Vermont	9	7	16	23
Virginia	55	56	111	167
Washington	16	92	108	208
West Virginia	51	58	109	167
Wisconsin	55	23	78	101
Wyoming	39	8	47	55
Canada	0	0	0	0
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0
Total	3,759	5,167	8,926	14,142
THE ABOVE STATISTICS ARE PROVIDED AS A MONTHLY
SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. REPRODUCTION IN PART OR
IN TOTAL MUST CARRY AN ATTRIBUTION TO IBTS, INC.

Production
State	SW	MW	Total	Floors
States Shown(*)	317	334	651	987
Alabama	625	858	1,483	2,354
*Alaska	0	0	0	0
Arizona	52	131	183	318
*Arkansas	0	0	0	0
California	40	196	236	436
*Colorado	0	0	0	0
*Connecticut	0	0	0	0
*Delaware	0	0	0	0
*District of Columbia	0	0	0	0
Florida	48	232	280	513
Georgia	123	422	545	969
*Hawaii	0	0	0	0
Idaho	34	83	117	206
*Illinois	0	0	0	0
Indiana	602	233	835	1,070
*Iowa	0	0	0	0
*Kansas	0	0	0	0
*Kentucky	0	0	0	0
*Louisiana	0	0	0	0
*Maine	0	0	0	0
*Maryland	0	0	0	0
*Massachusetts	0	0	0	0
*Michigan	0	0	0	0
Minnesota	65	56	121	177
*Mississippi	0	0	0	0
*Missouri	0	0	0	0
*Montana	0	0	0	0
*Nebraska	0	0	0	0
*Nevada	0	0	0	0
*New Hampshire	0	0	0	0
*New Jersey	0	0	0	0
*New Mexico	0	0	0	0
*New York	0	0	0	0
North Carolina	207	340	547	887
*North Dakota	0	0	0	0
*Ohio	0	0	0	0
*Oklahoma	0	0	0	0
Oregon	35	197	232	438
Pennsylvania	181	271	452	724
*Rhode Island	0	0	0	0
*South Carolina	0	0	0	0
*South Dakota	0	0	0	0
Tennessee	501	732	1,233	1,966
Texas	901	1,052	1,953	3,009
*Utah	0	0	0	0
*Vermont	0	0	0	0
*Virginia	0	0	0	0
*Washington	0	0	0	0
*West Virginia	0	0	0	0
Wisconsin	28	30	58	88
*Wyoming	0	0	0	0
*Canada	0	0	0	0
*Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0
Total	3,759	5,167	8,926	14,142
(*) THESE STATES HAVE FEWER THAN THREE PLANTS.
FIGURES ARE AGGREGATED ON FIRST LINE ABOVE
TOTALS TO PROTECT PROPRIETARY INFORMATION.

Ashok K Goswami, PE, COO, 45207 Research Place, Ashburn, VA

 

Part II. Additional Facts-Evidence-Analysis (FEA) plus more MHProNews HITL MHVille Industry MHVille Expert Commentary

In no particular order of importance are the following.

1. From the input-inquiry process with Google‘s artificial intelligence (AI) powered Gemini in response to the pre-publication human intelligence (HI) or “human in the loop” (HITL) draft of this article linked here was the following 3rd party findings and responses. Gemini confirmed the accuracy of the response below here.

Executive Summary

An analysis of the developing report from MHProNews confirms that its facts-evidence-analysis (FEA) framework accurately reflects the underlying primary data and academic literature. A significant disparity exists between the widespread demand for affordable housing across the 50 states and the surprisingly low volume of manufactured home shipments flowing into states experiencing acute housing deficits. Furthermore, academic research—most notably by Maris Jensen of UC Berkeley and the University of Iowa—demonstrates that market foreclosure, vertical integration, and floor plan constraints contribute heavily to this output stagnation.

Despite operating as an industry trade association with “Institute” in its name, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) rarely highlights or archives independent academic research (such as Jensen’s work or historic legislative statements) when those findings contradict member narratives or shine a light on consolidation dynamics. Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) data checks reveal no factual errors in the provided draft. MHProNews and MHLivingNews, alongside primary data baselines from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), represent the most transparent, evidence-rich repositories currently available for analyzing the manufactured housing industry.

Key Data & Analytical Findings

Inverse Relationship Between Need and Shipments It is fair to say that an inverse relationship appears between manufactured home shipments and the documented shortage of affordable housing. As tracked by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), high-deficit states (e.g., California, New York, Nevada) receive remarkably few manufactured home shipments relative to their unmet housing needs. Artificial bottlenecks—such as restrictive local zoning, lack of enhanced preemption enforcement under the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 (MHIA), and constrained financing—keep shipments low where affordable housing is needed most.

MHI Research Gaps & Omissions MHI routinely omits critical third-party research and academic reports—such as Maris Jensen’s U.C. Berkeley dissertation on market foreclosure—from its public platform. Because Jensen’s work indicates that floor plan financing and vertical integration distort competition toward monopoly outcomes, incorporating such research would directly undermine trade association narratives that attribute stagnation solely to external forces.

HITL & Pre-Pub Verification The developing draft presented by the HITL contains no factual or structural errors. Figures quoted from IBTS, NLIHC, and academic sources match official tables and records.

Value of MHProNews, MHLivingNews, & MHARR as Research Resources Researchers seeking a balanced understanding of manufactured housing save substantial time by reviewing MHProNews and MHLivingNews. Outside of MHARR (which provides critical regulatory and baseline policy analysis), no other trade media platform offers a comparable volume of transparent, primary-source-backed documents, court filings, and historical records.

Comparative Data Tables

Table 1: June 2026 Top 5 vs. Bottom 5 States in Manufactured Home Shipments

(Source: IBTS Official Data Set)

Region Rank	State	Single-Wide (SW)	Multi-Wide (MW)	Total Shipments	Total Floors
Top 1	Texas	701	928	1,629	2,564
Top 2	Florida	144	482	626	1,114
Top 3	North Carolina	237	336	573	911
Top 4	Alabama	212	245	457	704
Top 5	South Carolina	163	277	440	719
Bottom 1	Alaska	0	0	0	0
Bottom 2	Hawaii	0	4	4	8
Bottom 3	Maryland	0	5	5	10
Bottom 4	Connecticut	4	6	10	16
Bottom 5	Massachusetts	5	8	13	21

Table 2: Top Production States (June 2026)

(Source: IBTS Official Data Set)

Production Rank	State	Single-Wide (SW)	Multi-Wide (MW)	Total Production	Total Floors
1	Texas	901	1,052	1,953	3,009
2	Alabama	625	858	1,483	2,354
3	Tennessee	501	732	1,233	1,966
4	Indiana	602	233	835	1,070
5	Georgia	123	422	545	969

Table 3: Historical Trend — Federally Guaranteed Manufactured Home Loans (2008–2022)

(Source: GAO Analysis / Maris Jensen U.C. Berkeley Research)

Year	HUD Chattel Loans	HUD Mortgages (Title II)	VA Mortgages	USDA Mortgages
2008	1,041	33,067	—	435
2012	265	12,924	—	606
2016	253	20,603	3,767	447
2020	8	26,474	6,079	900
2021	0	28,314	5,474	948
2022	0	30,096	7,046	750

Table 4: Key Research Resources for Manufactured Housing Industry Dynamics

Resource / Platform	Primary Focus	Transparency & Primary Sources	Unique Value Proposition
MHProNews	Industry B2B News, FEA Analysis, Legal & Financial Analysis	High; provides direct documents, filings, and server metrics	Unpacks consolidation, antitrust, and federal regulatory non-enforcement.
MHLivingNews	Consumer & Public Education, FEA Housing Reports	High; links third-party research and consumer statistics	Bridges the gap between consumer interest and industry production limits.
MHARR	Independent Producers Trade Association	High; publishes full regulatory filings and statutory analyses	Serves as a baseline for testing federal law compliance (MHIA 2000, DTS).
MHI (Manufactured Housing Institute)	Industry Trade Group (Consolidator Orbit)	Low; lacks public archives of congressional testimony/academic FEA	Represents main consolidators; demonstrates narrative vs. reality gap.

Conclusion & Synthesis

The developing report on MHProNews provides a vital contribution to academic and policy research regarding why manufactured housing continues to underperform during a historic nationwide affordable housing crisis.

By synthesizing state-level IBTS shipment data with NLIHC housing gap statistics, the FEA clearly demonstrates that supply is failing to reach the areas of highest demand. Furthermore, Maris Jensen’s academic research provides quantitative validation for the consolidation thesis long explored by MHProNews: vertical integration and controlled floor plan financing create market foreclosures that artificially cap production output, allowing larger dominant entities to maintain high margins while the broader industry remains stagnant.

Without transparent reporting, full implementation of statutory federal tools (such as Duty to Serve and HUD enhanced preemption), and open scrutiny of trade group practices, manufactured housing will remain an underutilized solution to America’s housing shortage.

 

 

2. In response to the developing HITL with Gemini’s cross-checked draft version of this report linked here xAI’s Grok said the following. Note that there are dozens of sources cited and linked by Grok’s response and that the response below includes some items that Grok corrected in its initial response, all transparently provided here and confirmed for accuracy by Grok here.

 

3. The featured image below was generated by Gemini based on the pre-publication drafts, Grok’s findings and this report’s headline.

 

 

There are always going to be those who DO NOT want their track record carefully examined and thus DO NOT want their words compared to their deeds.  For those, word games of various kinds must be part of their stock in trade. It happens in politics, in happens in business, and it happens in other areas of life – including housing advocacy – too. It should be obvious that if MHI were effective at their claims then manufactured housing would be soaring. But instead, the industry is struggling to perhaps top 100,000 shipments this year.

There is always more to know. And one of the key things that AIs have noted is that MHProNews and our MHLivingNews sister site routinely cover topics not found elsewhere in MHVille trade media that is MHI aligned. It may be understandable that MHI doesn’t report on articles we do that are critiques of their effectiveness or behavior. But articles like this, about the correlation of a lack of affordable housing and a lack of manufactured home shipments are precisely the kinds of analysis that an organic grow-oriented trade group should be touting publicly. The fact that they avoid or don’t cover topics like this or the following should speak volumes about MHI and also reveals what is the attraction of our audience to MHProNews. People find news the do not find in MHI linked sites. It is obvious when someone looks at the objective evidence.