The word chassis has appeared in 65 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on July 28 in the guest essay “The Good News and the Bad News About the New Housing Law” by Jared Bernstein and Jim Parrott:
Historically, federal standards required that a manufactured home have a permanent steel chassis for safer portability. That requirement makes little sense today: Few manufactured homes are moved after installation, and adding a steel chassis increases building costs and generally precludes the addition of basements, second stories and other variations in manufactured homes that consumers want.
The new law removes the chassis requirement, setting up HUD to adjust related regulations to expand the range of affordable entry-level homes coming off the assembly line. Perhaps more important, it would begin to blur the line between manufactured housing and modular housing — homes with sections made in factories and then assembled on a housing site.
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