Manufactured housing is a bastard child of construction, but Charles McAfee puts it in an entirely new perspective.
On Nov. 6, I presided over the mid-year meeting in Chicago of the Construction Writers Association (CWA), which I am privileged to serve this year as president. The highlight for me was a presentation by Charles F. McAfee, FIAI, an architect from Kansas City who has made a splash in the modular housing field. For him, it's not as much a business as a crusade.
Manufactured housing is a bastard child of the construction industry. For the most part, it's out of sight and out of mind. When paid any heed at all, the manufactured housing sector is usually lumped with trailers at the bottom of the housing heap. That was pretty much my attitude prior to hearing McAfee.