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Article: Modular homes becoming more common during New Orleans rebuilding
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- New Orleans CityBusiness
- Article date:
- October 8, 2007
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Rebuilding efforts continue to change neighborhoods as more
modular homes pop up like mushrooms.
"Until the rebuilding effort took hold, modular housing did not
have a presence in the south-central part of the United States,"
said Thayer Long, executive director of the National Modular Home
Council. "This has been a new phenomenon: the enlisting of builders
and working with them to use modular construction."
Two years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the modular home
industry is now much more competitive -- as many as 20 modular
homebuilders are working in the New Orleans area.
The National Modular Home Council reports 300 modular homes were
constructed in Louisiana in 2006, more than ...