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  The Rundown Manufactured Homes Could Ease the Housing Crunch By encouraging more manufactured homes—factory-built, modern, and often half the cost of traditional site-built houses—the U.S. could vastly increase the number of available and affordable housing options. The challenge:  While these houses aren't the trailer homes of the past, they are still treated that way by the laws in most states. Most manufactured homes are classified as personal property, like a car—not as real estate, like a home. That means fewer protections and higher-cost loans. At a recent Pew event, experts called for common-sense fixes:   🏡  Let buyers title homes as real estate   to unlock mortgage access. 💵  Modernize federal loan programs  for "home-only" buyers—people who finance just the house, not the land. 🛡️  Add protections  for the riskier mortgage alternative known as contract financing, an arrangement typically made between a buyer and a seller rather...